Including Condition Responsive Control (e.g., Stack Thickness) Patents (Class 270/58.09)
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Patent number: 9086668Abstract: Provided is an image forming system including a feed tray, a printer unit, a first post-processing unit that performs first post-processing accompanying at least a change in a sheet size, a second post-processing unit that performs second post-processing other than the first post-processing, and a control unit that controls setting and performing feeding, outputting, and the post-processing of the sheet. In a case where the first post-processing and the second post-processing are set, the control unit acquires a feeding sheet size of a sheet fed from the feed tray, calculates a sheet size after the first post-processing based on the acquired feeding sheet size, and determines whether the set post-processings can be performed based on the calculated sheet size and a sheet size that can be processed by the second post-processing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 9051148Abstract: An image processing apparatus prints an image on a sheet and controls one of a plurality of binding units to bind the sheets on which the images are printed. The image processing apparatus further enables designation of a binding process to be used to bind the sheets, and provides notification of the number of sheets that can be bound by the designated binding process and the number of sheets that can be bound by a non-designated binding process.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koichi Ishizuka
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Patent number: 9016680Abstract: A mechanism capable of changing an upper limit number of sheets for a post-process is provided. To achieve this, a control method for controlling a sheet processing apparatus which performs the post-process for the sheets on which images are formed, comprising: storing, in a storage unit, the upper limit number of sheets to which the post-process can be performed; and changing the upper limit number of sheets stored in the storage unit is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masahiro Mutsuno
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Patent number: 9010743Abstract: When information about weight of a sheet indicates weight less than a predetermined weight, a sheet stacking apparatus configured to align sheets to be stacked on a stacking tray discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray while overlapping the sheet with another sheet by an overlapping unit, and, when the information about the weight of the sheet indicates weight not less than the predetermined weight, the sheet stacking apparatus discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray without overlapping the sheet with another sheet by the overlapping unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Miyake, Mitsuhiko Sato, Shunsuke Nishimura, Takashi Yokoya, Hiromasa Maenishi, Yutaka Ando, Nozomi Kumakura, Akihiro Arai
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Publication number: 20150102548Abstract: A translatable media height sensor assembly for measuring a media stack in an imaging forming device. The assembly includes a support and drive and insertion assemblies mounted thereon. Insertion assembly includes a translatable plunger having mounted thereon a sensor and a translatable probe. At a home position the sensor is actuated by a flag on the support placing sensor output in a first state. During measurement, drive assembly translates insertion assembly toward a media stack and the sensor output changes to a second state and a counter is started. The probe encounters the media stack and stops while plunger and sensor continue to translate with the probe engaging the sensor causing the sensor output to again change state and stop the counter. The insertion assembly retracts back to the home position where the flag actuates the sensor causing the sensor output to change state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Lexmark International , Inc.Inventors: Dale Bryan Cuesta Balili, Michael Villanueva Caneza, Roel Firmeza Pantonial, Jake Tia Pia, Marvin Aliviado Rodriquez, Donald Norman Spitz, Joe Rey Naquila Dumandan
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Patent number: 8991809Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a conveyance portion, a staple unit, an operation portion, a mode switching portion, a cover, and an open/close detection portion. The staple unit, which has an automatic mode and a manual mode as processing modes for stapling processing, executes stapling processing for a paper sheet conveyed to the processing tray by the conveyance portion in the automatic mode, and executes stapling processing for a paper sheet stacked on the processing tray by a user in the manual mode. The cover is attached in an openable and closable manner so as to cover the operation portion when closed, and expose the operation portion when opened. While the open/close detection portion is detecting that the cover is opened, when the operation portion has received an operation for switching to the manual mode, the mode switching portion switches the automatic mode to the manual mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions IncInventor: Atsushi Tanonaka
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Patent number: 8905394Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus that is capable of aligning a sheet bundle accurately even if sheet types like sheet sizes are different, and is capable of setting a reference position depending on a selected finish. A conveyance unit conveys a sheet. A sheet stacking unit stacks sheets conveyed by the conveyance unit as a sheet bundle. A stapler applies a staple process to the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacking unit. A position determination unit determines a staple position at which the staple process is applied to the sheet bundle. An alignment unit aligns the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking unit in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction with respect to one of both sides parallel to the sheet conveyance direction. The alignment unit determines the one side as a reference side depending on the staple position determined by the position determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Miyake, Mitsuhiko Sato, Takashi Yokoya, Hiromasa Maenishi, Yutaka Ando, Akihiro Arai
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Publication number: 20140346726Abstract: A sheet processing device includes an exit tray and a sheet alignment mechanism. On the exit tray, ejected sheets or ejected sheet sheaves subjected to stapling are stacked. When at least a sheet is ejected, the sheet alignment mechanism aligns the sheets in a manner to be in contact with and catch opposite ends of the sheets stacked on the exit tray from a base end side of the exit tray. When a sheet sheaf is ejected, the sheet alignment mechanism comes in contact with a plurality of points on a topmost surface of the sheet sheaves stacked on the exit tray to detect a height difference between the plurality of points.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENTS SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Takeshi MATSUO, Terumitsu NOSO, Yasunori UENO, Masahiko MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20140339754Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a binding unit that sandwiches and binds a plurality of sheets by using a convex portion and a concave portion; a moving unit that moves at least one of the convex portion and the concave portion; a drive unit that drives the moving unit; and a control unit that controls the drive unit so that a state in which the binding unit sandwiches the plurality of sheets at a predetermined pressing force by using a driving force from the drive unit is retained for a predetermined time period, and so that the one of the convex portion and the concave portion is moved in a direction away from the another of the convex portion and the concave portion after the predetermined time period has elapsed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideto Abe, Yusuke Obuchi, Yoshitaka Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8870175Abstract: A pressing portion is lowered to press from above sheets or a sheet bundle discharged onto a discharge tray, and a moving portion configured to lower the pressing portion is controlled so that, in a case where the sheet bundle is discharged onto the discharge tray, the pressing portion exerts a pressing force greater than a pressing force in a case where the sheets are discharged onto the discharge tray.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yohei Gamo
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Patent number: 8844920Abstract: During stapling operations: connectors disconnect a compiler platform from an elevator platform; an ejector structure is maintained in a fully retracted position to allow a stack of sheets to be within a stapling area; a stapling device staples the stack of sheets in the stapling area; the ejector structure moves the stapled set of sheets to the elevator platform; and the elevator platform moves in a downward direction after the ejector structure moves the stapled set of sheets to the elevator platform. During non-stapling stacking operations: the connectors connect the compiler platform to the elevator platform; the ejector structure is maintained in a middle position between a fully retracted position and a fully ejected position to prevent the sheets from entering the stapling area; and the elevator platform and the compiler platform move together in the downward direction as additional sheets are added to the stack of sheets.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Brian J. Dunham, Carlos M. Terrero
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Patent number: 8833751Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus capable of shortening a time period required to determine whether or not a sheet bundle has been normally stapled, while suppressing an increase of apparatus size and an increase of apparatus manufacturing cost, and capable of stacking sheet bundles on a sheet discharge tray such that sheet bundles not normally stapled can be distinguished from normally stapled sheet bundles. When the absence of staple is detected in a sheet bundle by one or both of staple detecting sensors, sheet bundles starting from a sheet bundle to be discharged next are shifted on a processing tray, whereby a sheet discharge position of the next and subsequent sheet bundles on the sheet discharge tray is changed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Ishikawa, Hitoshi Kato
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Publication number: 20140239571Abstract: An image forming system which is capable of, when a manual stapling process is to be carried out on sheets, reducing waiting time for a user and decreasing power consumption. The image forming system has an image forming apparatus, which forms images on sheets, and a sheet post-processing apparatus. When the sheet post-processing apparatus is to shift into a power-saving state, a movable stapler is moved to a manual stapling position. When it is detected that sheets have been set into a sheet setting unit in a state in which the image forming apparatus and the sheet post-processing apparatus have shifted into the power-saving state, the image forming apparatus is held in the power-saving state, and the sheet post-processing apparatus is returned from the power-saving state.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshifumi Kakutani, Kazumi Sato, Takeyuki Suda, Yousuke Hata, Hirohisa Kato, Shinya Suzuki, Yoshitaka Yamazaki
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Patent number: 8794615Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus capable of stably stopping a clamping member at a predetermined target position (holding position), of performing post-processing regardless of thickness of a sheet bundle. A holding member is used for holding a sheet bundle. A moving unit moves the holding member between a predetermined reference position and a predetermined holding position at which the holding member holds the sheet bundle. A sheet post-processing unit performs post-processing on the sheet bundle held by the holding member. A control unit configured to, when the holding member is moved from the reference position and is stopped at the holding position by the moving unit, decelerate a moving speed of the moving unit, before performing a stopping process of the moving unit, such that a deceleration rate of the moving speed is smaller as a thickness of the sheet bundle is larger.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi Kato, Naoki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8770569Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus is disclosed which includes front and back trailing-end reference fences that are movable and on which the sheet trailing-end abuts to align the sheet trailing-end; a side-stitching stapler that moves along the sheet trailing-end and binds a bundle of sheets aligned; a length-direction moving mechanism that moves the trailing-end reference fences in a sheet conveying direction; and a position changing unit that drives the length-direction moving mechanism to change the position of one of the trailing-end reference fences in the sheet conveying direction relative to the position of the other one. The front and back trailing-end reference fences are moved to change binding positions such that the distances from the sheet trailing-end to staple positions are made equal in front-side binding and in back-side binding.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Tomohiro Furuhashi, Masahiro Tamura, Shuuya Nagasako, Keisuke Sugiyama, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Kazuya Yamamoto, Kyosuke Nakada, Tomomichi Hoshino, Yasuo Niikura, Junya Suzuki, Kazunori Konno, Akira Kunieda, Takahiro Watanabe, Tomohiro Yoshizaki, Kiichiro Goto
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Patent number: 8770570Abstract: A sheet processing device provided with a stacking unit configured to stack thereon one or more conveyed sheets, a staple unit configured to staple a bundle of sheets stacked on the stacking unit, a moving unit configured to move the staple unit to a staple position, and a projecting and retrieving unit configured to project and retrieve the stacking unit in a space overlapped with a motion space for the staple unit to move therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventor: Shigefumi Soga
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Patent number: 8764002Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a punching time measuring unit, a stapling time estimating unit, and a sheet-bundle interval time setting unit. The punching time measuring unit measures a punching processing time to perform punching processing. The stapling time estimating unit calculates an estimated stapling processing time to perform stapling processing by using the punching processing time measured by the punching time measuring unit. The sheet-bundle interval time setting unit sets a sheet-bundle interval time, which is a time from when the last sheet forming a sheet bundle subjected to the punching processing is fed until when the first sheet forming a subsequent sheet bundle subjected to the punching processing is fed.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Yoji Isogai
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Publication number: 20140175729Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a processing tray, a conveyance portion, a staple unit, an operation portion, a mode switching portion, a cover, and an open/close detection portion. The staple unit, which has an automatic mode and a manual mode as processing modes for stapling processing, executes stapling processing for a paper sheet conveyed to the processing tray by the conveyance portion in the automatic mode, and executes stapling processing for a paper sheet stacked on the processing tray by a user in the manual mode. The cover is attached in an openable and closable manner so as to cover the operation portion when closed, and expose the operation portion when opened. While the open/close detection portion is detecting that the cover is opened, when the operation portion has received an operation for switching to the manual mode, the mode switching portion switches the automatic mode to the manual mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Atsushi Tanonaka
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Patent number: 8740211Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus which is capable of preventing a stapling position and a folding position from being out of alignment when a stapling process is carried out. A sheet bundle, which is stacked in a housing guide, is stapled by a stapler using a staple at the stapling position. The sheet bundle is folded at a position of the staple after the stapling. After the stapling, the sheet bundle is moved from the stapling position to the folding position. During the movement, the staple is detected using a staple sensor disposed at a predetermined location between the stapling position and the folding position. Based on a moving distance of the sheet bundle before the staple is detected after the stapling process, a position of the sheet bundle with respect to the stapler for stapling on a subsequent sheet bundle is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hitoshi Kato
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Patent number: 8733753Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sheet processing device includes a jogger fence configured to carry out a crosswise direction alignment to a stack of image formed sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus, a rear end fence acting as a lengthwise reference edge, a stapling device configured to staple the aligned sheet stack, a discharge belt configured to move the stapled sheet stack to a sheet ejection tray, and a controller to control movement of the jogger fence during the sheet stack being moved by the discharge belt so as to move the jogger fence more than once between a position where the jogger fence does not contact the edge of the sheet stack and a position where the jogger fence pressing contact the edge of the sheet stack.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naofumi Soga, Kikuo Mizutani, Tomomi Iijima
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Patent number: 8714538Abstract: When information about weight of a sheet indicates weight less than a predetermined weight, a sheet stacking apparatus configured to align sheets to be stacked on a stacking tray discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray while overlapping the sheet with another sheet by an overlapping unit, and, when the information about the weight of the sheet indicates weight not less than the predetermined weight, the sheet stacking apparatus discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray without overlapping the sheet with another sheet by the overlapping unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiyuki Miyake, Mitsuhiko Sato, Shunsuke Nishimura, Takashi Yokoya, Hiromasa Maenishi, Yutaka Ando, Nozomi Kumakura, Akihiro Arai
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Patent number: 8690143Abstract: A post-processing device includes a processing tray on which sheets are to be stacked, a transport portion for transporting, a sheet introduced through an introduction port, a turn-aside portion for turning aside the sheet to delay arrival of the sheet at the processing tray, and a delivery mechanism for delivering the sheets stacked on the processing tray to a delivery tray on a boundary between copies. When a remaining number of sheets of one copy unstacked on the processing tray exceeds a maximum number of stacked sheets that is an amount of sheets stackable on the processing tray, the delivery mechanism delivers a sheet stack of the one copy a plurality of times so as to avoid delivery of only one sheet on a last page of the one copy, and the turn-aside portion turns aside a sheet on a first page to be stacked after delivering the sheet bundle.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Shigeaki Nakamura
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Patent number: 8690144Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus which makes it possible to detect staples at a plurality of points by a smaller number of sensors. The sheet processing apparatus shifts a stapler along an edge of a sheet bundle. The stapler has a staple detection sensor attached thereto. The staple detection sensor detects a staple driven into the sheet bundle while passing by a staple detection position during shifting of the stapler. The stapler sequentially performs stapling at a first position and a second position along the edge of the sheet bundle, and is then shifted to a standby position. During a time period from completion of the stapling at the first position to completion of the shifting of the stapler to the standby position, the staple detection sensor detects presence or absence of a staple at each of the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hitoshi Kato, Naoki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8678367Abstract: The present invention prevents a succeeding sheet from being caught in holes of preceding punched sheets.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Canon FinetechInventors: Yasunori Shimakawa, Kenichi Watanabe
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Patent number: 8672313Abstract: A sheet processing device for stacking one or more sheets temporarily on a stacking unit, and stapling the sheets by a stapling unit after aligned by an alignment unit. The device includes a shift unit that shifts the sheet in both a sheet conveying direction and a direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction, and a control unit that controls a shift amount of the shift unit so that an alignment distance of a width direction alignment unit to align the sheet in the direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction is constant regardless of a staple position and a sheet size, when stacking the sheets on the stacking unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventor: Kentaroh Fukami
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Publication number: 20140061994Abstract: In a provided apparatus, an upper roller to be engaged with a sheet upper face and a lower roller to be engaged with a sheet lower face are arranged at a sheet discharging port in a manner capable of being pressure-contacted and being separated, the upper roller is formed with a large-diameter soft roll face and a small-diameter hard roll face, and a pressurization force of roller lifting-lowering means with which the upper roller is pressure-contacted to and is separated from the lower roller is switched to be high or low.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: NISCA CORPORATION, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki MIMURA, Kenta IDEZUKI, Kenichi SANO
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Publication number: 20140061993Abstract: In an apparatus structure having a sheet discharge mode to store sheets at a stack tray from a sheet discharging path and a sheet discharge mode to store binding-processed sheet bundles with collating and stacking, sheet holding means is arranged above a sheet placement face of the stack tray as a sheet pressurization force being variable in two steps, and then, the pressurization force of the sheet holding means is adjusted in two steps in accordance with the sheet discharge mode for storing sheets at the stack tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: NISCA CORPORATION, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhito SHIMURA, Seiji ONO, Makoto SHIMIZU, Akira SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 8657277Abstract: An image forming system including a control section provides control in such a way that, the ring binder of the size determined for the first set of copies is adopted so that ring binding is performed for a second set of copies or copies thereafter in a case of executing a job for ring binding of a plurality of copies. When at least one of a status change in the sheet feed section, a main power source being turned off, or a change in a job ticket is occurred from a suspension to a resumption of the job, since the thickness of a bundle of sheets may change, the thickness measuring section is caused to measure the thickness of the bundle in a first set of copies subsequent to resumption. And the control section judges continuation or suspension of a job.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Takamitsu Satsukawa
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Patent number: 8641030Abstract: A control apparatus that controls a stapling unit configured to staple sheets includes a control unit configured to determine a turning-over direction of sheets to be stapled by the stapling unit and to determine a maximum number of staplable sheets according to the determined turning-over direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirochika Sato
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Patent number: 8632067Abstract: A post-processing device includes a transport section transporting a sheet transported at a predetermined speed from an upstream side toward a downstream side; a load section on which the transported sheet is loaded; an aligner aligning the loaded sheet; an alignment controller performing control such that the aligner performs the alignment process on the sheet transported from the transport section to the load section for every predetermined number of sheets; and a transport controller controlling the transport section by causing the transport section to transport the sheet at a reduced speed for the every predetermined number of sheets so that the sheet transported at the reduced speed reaches the load section after the aligner completes the sheet alignment process that is performed on a previous sheet transported immediately prior to the sheet after the previous sheet is loaded on the load section.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Awano
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Patent number: 8596633Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms asperity on a sheet bundle so as to bind the sheet bundle, has a pair of rotating members having a concave and convex portions on the outer periphery, a moving portion that moves at least one of the pair of the rotating members so as to nip the sheet bundle by the pair of the rotating members or release the sheet bundle, and a controlling portion that controls the moving portion to allow the pair of rotating members to rotate with a concave portion of one rotating member and a convex portion of the other meshed with each other while nipping the sheet bundle or releasing the sheet bundle.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuro Awaya, Hiroshi Ota
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Patent number: 8556249Abstract: An image forming apparatus that enables to execute a bookbinding process for sheet bundles without decreasing productivity. The image forming apparatus is connected to a bookbinding apparatus having a bookbinding unit that binds a book by attaching a ring to a punch hole and a buffer unit that performs a buffering process to convey sheets in piles so that sheets for a next sheet bundle are not ejected onto a sheet bundle that is being processed by the bookbinding unit. A determination unit determines whether a sheet is a type that is prohibited from buffering. A control unit adjusts an ejection order so that the sheet of the type that is prohibited from buffering is not ejected within the predetermined number of sheets from the first sheet of sheets that constitute the sheet bundle, when the determination unit determines that the sheet is the type that is prohibited from buffering.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Ando, Mitsuhiko Sato, Naoto Watanabe, Takayuki Fujii, Yushi Oka, Toshiyuki Miyake, Takashi Yokoya, Hiromasa Maenishi
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Patent number: 8544836Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a punch motor, an actuator which rotates by driving of the punch motor, a punching blade which punches a sheet by driving of the actuator, and a controller which controls the driving of the punch motor so that approach run is gained, if a thickness of the sheet exceeds a threshold, in a rotating direction of the actuator in which the punching blade does not move at the beginning of the driving of the punch motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasunobu Terao
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Patent number: 8540228Abstract: A sheet processing device includes a stacking unit that is used to stack a bundle of sheets that are placed upon each other with first edge portions of the sheets being aligned with each other; a first binding unit that binds the first edge portions of the bundle of sheets stacked upon the stacking unit; a second binding unit that is provided integrally with the first binding unit in a direction along the first edge portions of the bundle of sheets stacked upon the stacking unit, and that binds the first edge portions by a binding method differing from a binding method of the first binding unit; and an angle changing mechanism that is capable of changing an angle of the first binding unit with respect to the bundle of sheets when binding the first edge portions with the first binding unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryuuichi Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20130214470Abstract: A printing control apparatus configured to control a binding unit configured to perform a binding processing for binding sheets without using a staple includes a control unit that controls the biding unit to divide sheets subjected to printing into sheet groups in units of a number of sheets bindable by the binding unit, and to apply the binding processing to each of sheet groups or controls another binding unit to bind the sheets subjected to printing using a staple.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent number: 8496239Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a pair of first aligning members movable in a sheet conveyance direction and a sheet width direction, a pair of second aligning members to align lateral sides of a bundle of sheets, a stapler movable in the sheet width direction to staple a trailing end portion of the bundle, a driving unit to move the first aligning members, and a controller. The first aligning members include a stack portion to contact and support a trailing edge of the bundle. When the stapler staples the bundle at two positions symmetrically relative to a center position in the sheet width direction, the controller selects either first positions inside the two stapled positions or second positions outside the two stapled positions in accordance with multiple stapling-related variables, and the first aligning members are set at the selected positions to align the trailing edge of the bundle.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Furuhashi, Keisuke Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8495821Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet stack thickness estimating device including a driving device, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, a pressing part and a sensor. The driving device provides a motive force to the sheet stack thickness estimating device so as to drive the first connecting rod moved horizontally for rotating the second connecting rod, so that the pressing part presses the sheets on the paper tray. By detecting if the signal generated by the sensor is blocked by the first connecting rod, the thickness estimating device can judge if the thickness of the sheets exceeds a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Primax Electronics, Ltd.Inventor: Ching-Tse Wang
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Patent number: 8485513Abstract: A control apparatus obtains information identifying sheets stored in an MFP to be caused to perform printing for printing a printed object to be subjected to jacketed book binding, wherein this information is stored in the MFP. The control apparatus stores thicknesses of respective paper sheets as information about paper sheets. From this information and from the information obtained from the MFP, the control apparatus creates a table indicative of the correspondence between the respective paper sheets stored in the MFP and their thicknesses. Further, on receiving a selection of paper sheets to be used for printing for the printed object and a number of these paper sheets, the control apparatus determines a thickness of each paper sheet by making a reference to the table and calculates the spine jacket width by multiplying the thickness by the number of paper sheets.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kunihiko Sugimoto, Tsuyoshi Morimoto, Atsushi Ito, Taro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8485514Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet stacking unit on which sheets are accommodated and stacked as a sheet bundle; an aligning member that is movable along a trailing end, in a conveying direction, of the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacking unit and that aligns the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction by abutting thereon; a binding unit that moves along the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction and binds the aligned sheet bundle; and a moving unit that moves the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction. A distance from the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction to a binding position is adjusted by moving the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Keisuke Sugiyama, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Masahiro Tamura, Shuuya Nagasako, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Kyosuke Nakada, Kazuya Yamamoto, Junya Suzuki, Kazunori Konno, Yasuo Niikura, Tomomichi Hoshino, Akira Kunieda, Takahiro Watanabe, Tomohiro Yoshizaki, Kiichiro Goto
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Patent number: 8480069Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a correcting unit that corrects alignment of a sheet; a post-processing unit that performs post-processing on the sheet after the correcting unit corrects the alignment of the sheet; and a creasing unit that forms a crease on the sheet after the correcting unit corrects the alignment of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Yuusuke Shibasaki, Hitoshi Hattori, Takashi Saito, Naoyuki Ishikawa, Akihiro Musha, Shuuya Nagasako, Naohiro Kikkawa, Hidetoshi Kojima, Naoki Oikawa, Go Aiba
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Patent number: 8444133Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a support unit on which sheets are stacked together as a sheet stack, first and second binding units that respectively perform first and second binding processes to bind the sheet stack as first and second sheet stacks, a transporting unit that transports the first and second sheet stacks toward first and second paths, respectively, which are in opposite directions, a reversing-and-transporting unit disposed at the second path to transport the second sheet stack such that upper and lower sides thereof are reversed, a first transported-sheet-stack support unit that is disposed at the first path and on which the first sheet stack transported by the transporting unit is placed, and a second transported-sheet-stack support unit that is disposed at the second path and on which the second sheet stack reversed and transported by the reversing-and-transporting unit is placed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Kimura
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Patent number: 8430389Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a staple processing portion and a sheet stacking portion on which a sheet is stacked and abutted. The sheet processing apparatus also includes a fold processing portion, a conveyance guide member, an end part processing portion to perform an end part process to the folded end part, and a controlling portion. After a stapling process is performed, the fold processing portion folds the sheet bundle in two to create a folded sheet bundle having a folded end part between a first surface and a second surface. The conveyance guide member guides the folded sheet bundle with the folded end part as a leading end while the first surface slides against the conveyance guide member. The controlling portion controls the positioning member such that the stapling position is moved, by a predetermined distance, to an area on the sheet bundle that will become the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoto Tokuma, Yusuke Obuchi, Yuri Urano
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Patent number: 8424860Abstract: A method and device for stitching printed products with a stitching machine, which includes a stitcher head and a bending device, which travel concomitantly with each printed product as it is conveyed in a travel direction during the stitching operation. The bending device is positioned first in a first position, which corresponds to the thickness of the printed products and is a certain distance away from the stitcher head in the direction transverse to the travel direction. Before a printed product is introduced, its thickness is determined and compared with a predetermined limit value; and, if this limit value is exceeded, the bending device is brought into a predetermined second position, which is farther away than the first position from the stitching head. After the printed product has been introduced, the bending device is moved back into the first position, and the wire stitch is driven into the printed product.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Müller Martini Holding AGInventors: Andreas Flück, Daniel Graber, Lukas Dysli
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Patent number: 8422037Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a distance adjusting unit adjusts an inter-unit distance between a contact unit and an image carrier by moving the image carrier or the contact unit by applying an opposing force to the image carrier or the contact unit against a biasing force applied by a biasing unit based on thickness information of a recording sheet acquired by a thickness-information acquiring unit and data indicating a relationship between the thickness information and an inter-unit distance change amount stored in a data storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Hodoshima, Toshiyuki Andoh, Takashi Hashimoto, Hidetaka Noguchi, Seiji Hoshino, Tatsuhiko Oikawa, Tetsuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 8406681Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes: a punch portion which is capable of punching a hole of a different type in a sheet; a sheet stack portion on which a punched sheet is stacked; and a determining portion which determines the hole type; wherein stack limit number of sheets to be stacked on the sheet stack portion is changed in accordance with the hole type determined by the determining portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toshiyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 8393070Abstract: The production line according to the present invention is provided with a pressurization measurement apparatus adjacent to a press-working apparatus, a temporary laminate assembly worked and laminated by a press in the press-working apparatus is sent to the pressurization measurement apparatus, and a laminate assembly is produced by being pressurized and being subjected to regular caulking by a hydraulic servo press of the pressurization measurement apparatus. At this time, the lamination height of a regularly caulked laminate assembly is measured by a linear scale secured at the pressurization measurement apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Yamada Dobby Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyasu Shirai, Kazuo Hiramitsu, Sotaro Ishihara
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Patent number: 8382090Abstract: To provide a post-processing system for enabling a sheet prepared in a different printing apparatus to be mixed and undergo post-processing when the post-processing apparatus performs bookbinding finish on sheets with images formed thereon, a collecting means is provided in a post-processing section for performing post-processing on image-formed sheets, and is configured to enable a bunch of sheets to be manually set from the outside, a control section is provided with operating means for outputting a set finish signal such that the sheets have been set manually in the collecting means, and it is configured when a mode selecting means selects a mixing post-processing mode, the control section performs the post-processing on a bunch of sheets by post-processing means using the set finish signal from the operating means.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Nisca CorporationInventors: Shinya Sasamoto, Hideki Orii, Akihiko Tsukui, Shotaro Kikushima
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Publication number: 20130001847Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus which makes it possible to detect staples at a plurality of points by a smaller number of sensors. The sheet processing apparatus shifts a stapler along an edge of a sheet bundle. The stapler has a staple detection sensor attached thereto. The staple detection sensor detects a staple driven into the sheet bundle while passing by a staple detection position during shifting of the stapler. The stapler sequentially performs stapling at a first position and a second position along the edge of the sheet bundle, and is then shifted to a standby position. During a time period from completion of the stapling at the first position to completion of the shifting of the stapler to the standby position, the staple detection sensor detects presence or absence of a staple at each of the first position and the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Kato, Naoki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8333372Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus that forms asperity on a sheet bundle, which includes plural sheets, so as to bind the sheet bundle, includes: a pair of rotating members having a concave and convex portions on the outer periphery; a moving portion that moves at least one of the pair of the rotating members so as to nip the sheet bundle by the pair of the rotating members or release the sheet bundle; and a controlling portion that controls the moving portion to allow the pair of rotating members to rotate with a concave portion of one rotating member and a convex portion of the other meshed with each other while nipping the sheet bundle or releasing the sheet bundle.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuro Awaya, Hiroshi Ota
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Patent number: 8332065Abstract: A method includes causing a stacking device having a first stacking unit and a second stacking unit to stack sheets of a small size on the first stacking unit or the second stacking unit and to stack sheets of a large size over the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit, and controlling the stacking of sheets by restricting stacking of the sheets of the large size on the sheet of the small size when the sheets of the small size are stacked on at least one of the first stacking unit and the second stacking unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tsuyoshi Kurakata