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- Patent Title: Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system
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Application No.: US15153840Application Date: 2016-05-13
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Publication No.: US09944488B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Akira Kunieda , Nobuyoshi Suzuki , Hidehiko Fujiwara , Katsuhiro Kosuge , Yuusuke Shibasaki , Wataru Takahashi , Makoto Hidaka , Shohichi Satoh , Koki Sakano , Takuya Morinaga , Yohsuke Haraguchi , Kota Nakashima , Shinji Tanoue , Takahiro Itou
- Applicant: Akira Kunieda , Nobuyoshi Suzuki , Hidehiko Fujiwara , Katsuhiro Kosuge , Yuusuke Shibasaki , Wataru Takahashi , Makoto Hidaka , Shohichi Satoh , Koki Sakano , Takuya Morinaga , Yohsuke Haraguchi , Kota Nakashima , Shinji Tanoue , Takahiro Itou
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2015-104784 20150522
- Main IPC: B65H37/04
- IPC: B65H37/04 ; B31F1/07 ; B31F5/02 ; B42F3/00 ; B41F19/02 ; B65H31/02 ; B65H31/36 ; B65H31/38

Abstract:
A sheet processing apparatus includes a first binding unit configured to bind a sheet bundle; a second binding unit with greater number of bindable sheets than number of bindable sheets of the first binding unit; and a number-of-sheets determining unit configured to determine whether number of to-be-bound sheets exceeds the number of bindable sheets of the first binding unit. The first binding unit moves to a binding position, and if the number-of-sheets determining unit determines that the number of to-be-bound sheets exceeds the number of bindable sheets of the first binding unit, the first binding unit moves away from the binding position. When the number-of-sheets determining unit determines that the number of to-be-bound sheets exceeds the number of bindable sheets of the first binding unit, the second binding unit moves to the binding position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160340145A1 SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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