NISCA CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160089922 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SHEETS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGES PROVIDED WITH THE APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SHEETS - A sheet folding apparatus includes a retract path that is positioned on the upstream side of a stacker section for collecting sheets and that branches off from a transport path to enable a sheet carried in the stacker section to be transported in a direction opposite to a carry-in direction, an adhesion unit that is positioned in a junction position of the transport path and the retract path to bond sheets by applying an adhesive, a staple binding unit that binds sheets collected in the stacker section with a staple, and a folding processing section that folds sheets bound with the unit. The retract path is a path for retracting an application position of the preceding sheet with the adhesive applied, in carrying a next sheet in the stacker section, and the staple binding unit is disposed in the stacker section between the adhesion unit and the folding processing section. | 03-31-2016 |
20160077334 | ROD LENS ARRAY AND IMAGE SENSOR - A rod lens array includes a plurality of columnar rod lenses each having a refractive index distribution in which a refractive index continuously decreases from a central axis thereof to an outer periphery, and arranged in at least one row to align the central axes in parallel to each other. Each of the plurality of columnar rod lenses includes an emission-side end portion region, an incident-side end portion region, and an intermediate region between the emission-side end portion region and the incident-side end portion region, each having a central refractive index. The central refractive index of the incident-side end portion is equal to that of the emission-side end portion region in an optical axis direction, and the central refractive index at the intermediate region is higher than those of the emission-side and incident-side end portion regions. | 03-17-2016 |
20160019442 | APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MEDIA, APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING MEDIA AND PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a media determining apparatus for enabling transparency of a medium to be determined at low cost, the media determining apparatus is provided with a transport section that transports a medium, a sensor including a light emitting device and a light receiving device to detect the medium, and a control section that detects the medium transported with the transport section corresponding to an output voltage of the sensor. The control section determines transparency of the medium by comparing the output voltage A of the sensor before a front end of the medium arrives at a detection position of the sensor, the output voltage B of the sensor when the front end arrives at the detection position, and the output voltage C of the sensor after the front end arriving at the detection position. | 01-21-2016 |
20160016413 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To correct a color shift caused by printing data, a printing apparatus includes an image formation section that prints on a transfer film using color inks according to printing data, and a control section which stores or generates pattern data of a pattern having respective colors of the inks, and combines the printing data and the pattern data so that a printing image of the pattern data overlaps a part of a printing image of the printing data. The control section corrects a printing start position on the transfer film with the image formation section of at least one color ink among printing images to print respectively with the color inks, according to input first information concerning a shift in respective colors of the inks constituting the pattern occurring in forming an image on the transfer film in the image formation section according to combined printing data subjected to combining. | 01-21-2016 |
20150375958 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND FOLDED SHEET PRESSING METHOD - Provided is a sheet processing device capable of preventing a folded sheet bundle from being opened after pressing to improve accumulating property and aligning property of the sheet bundle. A sheet processing device includes: a pair of sheet pressing members | 12-31-2015 |
20150375957 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND FOLDED SHEET PRESSING METHOD - Provided is a sheet processing device capable of preventing a folded sheet bundle from being opened after pressing to improve accumulating property and aligning property of the sheet bundle. A sheet processing device B that presses a folded sheet bundle includes a pair of pressing rollers | 12-31-2015 |
20150368063 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING BINDING PROCESSING ON SHEETS AND POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - In performing press binding with a pair of pressurizing surfaces opposed to each other with sheets nipped therebetween, one of the pressurizing surfaces is configured to shift to positions relatively to the other pressurizing surface, and a shift section is provided in the pressurizing surface that shifts to positions. An apparatus for applying narrow pressure to a plurality of sheets with a pair of pressurizing surfaces to perform press binding is provided with first and second pressurizing surfaces opposed to each other with sheets nipped therebetween, and a pressurization driver that shifts a position of at least one of the first and second pressurizing surfaces from a waiting position separated to an actuation position for coming into press-contact. | 12-24-2015 |
20150368062 | APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING BINDING PROCESSING ON SHEETS AND POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - To provide a sheet binding processing apparatus for enabling strong binding strength or weak binding strength to be selected in a neat sheet posture to perform binding processing in applying narrow pressure to a plurality of sheets with concavo-convex-shaped pressurizing surfaces to perform the binding processing, in positioning sheets in a binding position for press-binding the sheets with the concavo-convex-shaped pressurizing surfaces that mutually mesh to perform the binding processing, it is possible to set an engagement area of the sheets and the pressurizing surfaces in two or more different steps with positioning references or by shifting a position of a binding processing section in the direction for passing over an edge side of the sheets to perform the binding processing. | 12-24-2015 |
20150336759 | SHEET FEEDER - A sheet feeder includes a delivery roller that contacts a sheet on a sheet supply tray to deliver the sheet; a first detection sensor disposed upstream of the delivery roller so as to detect the sheet on the sheet supply tray; and a second detection sensor disposed downstream of the delivery roller so as to detect a leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. The delivery roller is activated in a state where the first detection sensor detects the sheet on the sheet supply tray while the second detection sensor does not detect the leading end portion of the sheet on the sheet supply tray. Thus, all the actually feedable sheets placed on the sheet supply tray can be fed, thereby reducing a sheet setting failure on the sheet supply tray, which reduces trouble of performing a re-set operation. | 11-26-2015 |
20150336397 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a printing apparatus that does not degrade the printing quality even when reciprocating shifts of a film-shaped medium are continued, an ink ribbon | 11-26-2015 |
20150336396 | TRANSFER APPARATUS - To provide a transfer apparatus correcting a curl of a card efficiently while preventing the card from deteriorating, a printing apparatus includes a transfer section transferring a transfer surface of a transfer film to the card, a rotating unit reversing the front side and back side of the card in two-sided transfer, a decurl mechanism correcting a curl of the card with the transfer surface transferred in the transfer section, and a control section controlling the decurl mechanism. The control section controls the decurl mechanism such that a correction amount for the card with the transfer surface transferred to one surface in two-sided transfer is smaller than a correction amount for the card in one-sided transfer, and that the total sum of correction amounts for respective surfaces of the card in two-sided transfer is smaller than the correction amount for the card in one-sided transfer. | 11-26-2015 |
20150330557 | LOAD SUPPORT APPARATUS - The present load support apparatus comprises an object support apparatus | 11-19-2015 |
20150310316 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Provided is an image forming system having a simple buffer mechanism and capable of preventing paging disorder when image-formed sheets are fed to a processing section. The present invention is featured in that an image forming order of a plurality of sheets to be made to stand by in a buffer section of a conveying path for guiding the sheets to a processing section is made different from an image forming order of sheets that are not made to stand by. To realize this, the system includes an image forming section, an accumulating section that accumulates image-formed sheet for processing, a conveying path along which the sheet is conveyed from the image forming section to the accumulating section, a buffer section disposed in the conveying path, in which the sheet to be fed to the accumulating section is made to temporarily stay, and a control section that controls the image forming section and the accumulating section. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309464 | SHEET PUNCHING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - This sheet punching device includes a placement table | 10-29-2015 |
20150307305 | POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A sheet fed from an image forming device to a path carry-in port is guided to a first accumulating section along a straight path or guided to a second accumulating section along a branch path branched from the straight path. A buffer path section is formed so as to make the sheet temporarily stay between a first sheet discharge roller pair disposed on the straight path side of the branch path at a position downstream of a branch portion and a second sheet discharge roller pair disposed in the branch path. The sheet staying in the buffer path section is conveyed to the first accumulating section by rotation of the first and second conveying rollers in one direction and to the second accumulating section by rotation of the first and second conveying rollers in an opposite direction to the one direction. | 10-29-2015 |
20150307301 | DRIVE APPARATUS, SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND SHEET COLLECTION APPARATUS - A self-hold type solenoid pulls a plunger by passage of electric current, and attracts and holds with permanent magnets also after interruption of the passage of electric current. A stopper member shifts between a regulation position for striking a front end of a transported sheet and a retracted position retracted from the regulation position by operation of the plunger. The self-hold type solenoid enhances the pull force of the plunger by being supplied with an electric current corresponding to one pulse at timing at which the transported sheet strikes the stopper member existing in the regulation position, and the stopper member is prevented from retracting by receiving an impact in striking the sheet. | 10-29-2015 |
20150293553 | OPERATION HANDLE MECHANISM AND LOAD SUPPORT MECHANISM - Provided is an operation handle mechanism with which a handle can be conveniently operated to move a movable section, thereby ensuring smooth operation and movement at any time regardless of an operation position of the handle. | 10-15-2015 |
20150288844 | DOCUMENT READING DEVICE - Provided is a document reading device capable of performing shading correction and making it difficult for foreign matters to enter inside the device. A document reading device includes a reading unit, a glass unit, and a closing member. The reading unit has a light source and reads a document. The glass unit has a glass plate that transmits light emitted from the light source and a reference member serving as a reference for shading correction of a reading optical system. The glass unit is disposed with a space provided with respect to the reading unit and slid between a first position where the light emitted from the light source transmits the glass plate and a second position where the light emitted from the light source reaches the reference member with the space being maintained. The closing member is positioned downstream of the glass plate and the reference member of the glass unit in a document conveying direction and fills at least a part of the space provided between the reading unit and the glass unit. | 10-08-2015 |
20150288842 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE USING SAID ILLUMINATION DEVICE - Provided are: an illumination device having a configuration in which a temperature rise of a radiation member is suppressed in a limited volume to thereby maintain a temperature of an LED at a predetermined value or less and an image reading device provided with the illumination device. In order to release heat generated by the LED from a substrate on which the LED is mounted, a first heat radiation plate ( | 10-08-2015 |
20150283824 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a printing apparatus capable of preventing the image quality from deteriorating, the printing apparatus is provided with a ribbon | 10-08-2015 |
20150283801 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING SYSTEM - To provide a printing apparatus for enabling cards high in wear resistance and security properties to be prepared, the printing apparatus is provided with an image formation section and a transfer section, the image formation forms a UV image in an ink reception layer | 10-08-2015 |
20150283783 | SHEET BINDING DEVICE, POST-PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet binding device includes a pressurizing unit that pressurizes a sheet bundle to bind the sheet bundle, a pressurizing section that is disposed in the pressurizing unit and configured to be moved from a waiting position separated from the sheet bundle to a pressurizing position at which the pressurizing section pressurizes the sheet bundle, a drive motor that actuates the pressurizing unit, and a controller that controls the drive motor such that the pressurizing section is engaged with the sheet bundle at a predetermined setting velocity. | 10-08-2015 |
20150222777 | DOCUMENT READING DEVICE - A document reading device is capable of preventing distortion or twisting occurring in a document conveying device from being transmitted to a reading carriage incorporated in the document conveying device. A document reading device includes a second reading carriage provided in a document conveying unit and configured to read a surface of a document different from a surface read by a first reading carriage, a support frame having a support surface supporting the second reading carriage, a retaining member retaining the second reading carriage by sandwiching the same between itself and the support frame, and an elastic member provided between the second reading carriage and retaining member to press the second reading carriage against the support frame. One of the support surface of the support frame and a supported surface of the second reading carriage supported by the support surface is formed into a curved surface. | 08-06-2015 |
20150217952 | PAPER SUPPLY DEVICE - A sheet supply device includes a sheet supply tray, a delivery roller contacting a topmost surface of a sheet bundle on the sheet supply tray to deliver the sheet, and separation means feeding the sheet delivered by the delivery roller one by one in a separated manner. The sheet supply device further includes an elevating tray freely elevated/lowered to support a leading end side of the sheet bundle placed on the sheet supply tray and to move the topmost surface of the sheet bundle to a delivery position, a first drive section elevating/lowering the elevating tray, a second drive section elevating/lowering the delivery roller, and a controller controlling the first and second drive sections to elevate the elevating tray until the topmost surface of the sheet bundle reaches the delivery position and thereafter lower the delivery roller to a position contacting the topmost surface of the sheet bundle. | 08-06-2015 |
20150210503 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - Provided is a sheet processing device that conveys a paper sheet onto which an adhesive is applied, the device including: a bonding member that applies adhesives onto the conveyed paper sheet at intervals in a sheet width direction; and a protruding guide that is positioned on a conveying path, downstream of the boding member in a sheet conveying direction and guides the paper sheet, facing an adhesive-applied surface of the paper sheet, the protruding guide being positioned between sheet width direction lines of the adhesive-applied position and including a protruding portion protruding into the conveying path. With this configuration, it is possible to suppress the adhesive from being adhered to a device component even in a configuration in which an adhesive-applied paper sheet is moved inside the device to make a sheet jam due to the adhesion less likely to occur. | 07-30-2015 |
20150203309 | DOCUMENT READING DEVICE - A document reading device is capable of facilitating attachment/detachment of a reading unit provided inside a U-shaped document conveying path formed in a document conveying device. The document reading device includes a U-shaped document conveying path extending from a sheet supply tray to a sheet discharge tray through a reading section and a reading unit disposed inside the U-shaped document conveying path, a downstream part of the sheet supply tray on which a document is placed and a guide member provided upstream of the document conveying path to continue from the sheet supply tray and is arranged to be attachable/detachable with respect to the sheet supply tray or document conveying path. The reading unit is removable from inside the U-shaped document conveying path through an opening through which the downstream part of the sheet supply tray and guide member of the document conveying path are removed. | 07-23-2015 |
20150183610 | SHEET BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - A sheet binding processing apparatus including a processing tray, a sheet positioning device, a first binding device, a second binding device, a driving device which moves the second binding device to a binding position where the sheets positioned by the sheet positioning device are to be bound and to a retracting position for retracting to the outside of the sheets positioned by the sheet positioning device, and a controller which controls the driving device and causes the second binding device to be located at the retracting position when the first binding device binds sheets. | 07-02-2015 |
20150183606 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM - A post-processing apparatus includes a sheet support device, a pair of side edge regulation members that engage in sheet opposite side edges on the sheet support device, and a shift device configured to shift a position of each of the side edge regulation members, and thereby causing the members to perform carry operation to shift the sheet on the sheet support device, wherein in executing the carry operation, the shift device sandwiches the sheet by the pair of side edge regulation members, and thereby makes a state in which pressure is applied to the sheet to execute. | 07-02-2015 |
20150183255 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A post-processing apparatus includes a first sheet mount section to place sheets in the shape of a bunch, a second sheet mount section to place sheets in the shape of a bunch, a binding processing unit disposed to be able to shift to a first position to bind sheets placed in the first sheet mount section and a second position to bind sheets placed in the second sheet mount section, and a regulation device that does not position the sheets in the shape of a bunch in an area of the binding processing unit when the binding processing unit is not positioned in the second position. | 07-02-2015 |
20150175379 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, AND SHEET BONDING METHOD - Provided is a sheet processing device including a carry-in path along which the paper sheet is carried in and a retreat path that branches off from the carry-in path, along which at least a part of the paper sheet stored in a stacker section is retreated in a direction opposite to a sheet conveying direction. A bonding means is disposed at a merging point between the carry-in path and retreat path. An adhesive-applied position of a preceding paper sheet is retreated to the retreat path when a next paper sheet is carried in to the stacker section, then the next paper sheet is moved to a bonding position for adhesive application. The above operations are sequentially repeated to generate a paper sheet bundle. Thus, a paper sheet bundle can be generated by bonding the paper sheets using an adhesive, so that it is possible to reduce stress to be applied to the paper sheet as compared to a case where the paper sheet bundle is bound with a metallic staple or by deforming the paper sheets themselves. Further, it is possible to comparatively reduce movement of the paper sheet applied with the adhesive to prevent the adhesive from being adhered to a portion other than the paper sheet, thereby preventing the paper sheets from being bonded to each other at a position other than a predetermined position. As a result, there can be provided a sheet processing device, that is rather small and can bond the paper sheets at a predetermined position. | 06-25-2015 |
20150174941 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH ADHESIVE APPLICATION DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH ADHESIVE APPLICATION DEVICE AND SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - Provided is an adhesive application device that applies an adhesive onto each of sequentially conveyed paper sheets, the device including: a device frame; a bonding member that delivers the adhesive for bonding the paper sheets to each other; a plurality of bonding units that are arranged in a sheet width direction and each have the bonding member; a support member that supports the bonding units on the device frame so as to be movable between a bonding position at which each bonding unit presses its bonding member to apply the adhesive onto the paper sheet and a separated position separated from the bonding position; and a moving member that moves the plurality of bonding units to the bonding position with timing shifted. Thus, it is possible to move the bonding units with a smaller drive force than in a case where the bonding units are moved simultaneously. Further, it is possible to reduce, even if the twist or wrinkles occur in the paper sheet in an initial pressing operation, the twist or wrinkles by utilizing a time lag up to the next pressing operation of the bonding units, thereby allowing adhesive application to be performed more reliably. | 06-25-2015 |
20150117983 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE - To provide a sheet processing device that performs saddle stitching processing that binds a bundle of stacked paper sheets at a position around a center thereof and then folds in half the paper sheet bundle at the binding portion, the device being capable of selectively performing both saddle stitching using a metallic staple and saddle stitching not using the metallic staple for environmental protection and capable of reducing a size. | 04-30-2015 |
20150102201 | LOAD SUPPORT MECHANISM - To achieve a mechanism that supports an article at a desired position in a displaceable manner in accordance with a weight of the article with a simple, small, and lightweight structure. | 04-16-2015 |
20150102200 | LOAD SUPPORT MECHANISM - To realize a mechanism that can support an article at a desired position in such a way as to be able to move the article, with a thin, simple configuration. | 04-16-2015 |
20150102188 | BRAKING MECHANISM AND LOAD SUPPORT MECHANISM - Provided is a braking mechanism that can control, when a braking part and a braked part can be relatively moved from a braked state, release of a braking force based on a direction in which the braking part and the braked part are supposed to move. | 04-16-2015 |
20150086298 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE - A sheet post-processing device includes a conveying section that conveys the paper sheet, a punch section that punches punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section, a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section, a stopper section that regulates a conveying direction leading end of the paper sheet stored in the stacker section; a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle whose leading end is regulated by the stacker section, and a folding section that folds the paper sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position. The punch section punches the punch holes at the front and rear of the folding position in the sheet conveying direction, and the binding section binds the paper sheet bundle with a paper-made staple by making the paper-made staple penetrate the punch holes. With this configuration, there can be provided a sheet-post processing device capable of easily generating a booklet for simple ring binding. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086297 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE, PAPER-MADE STAPLE USED IN THE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE - A sheet post-processing device includes a stacker section that temporarily stores paper sheets as a paper sheet bundle, a stopper that regulates a carrying-in direction leading end of the paper sheet carried into the stacker section, a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle regulated in position by the stopper, and folding rollers and a folding blade that perform folding processing for the sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position of the paper sheet bundle. The binding section binds the paper sheet bundle with a paper-made staple. The stopper sets a position of the paper sheet bundle such that a binding position of the paper-made staple straddles the predetermined folding position. With this configuration, there can be provided a sheet-post processing device capable of folding the staple together with the paper sheet bundle. | 03-26-2015 |
20150037120 | SHEET BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet binding processing apparatus capable of promptly performing a binding process for binding a sheet bundle set at a manual setting portion and a sheet bundle set at a processing tray. The present invention comprises a sheet binding processing apparatus including a processing tray on which introduced sheets are stacked into a bundle shape, a manual tray at which a sheet bundle is set from the outside of the apparatus, a binding device which performs a binding process on the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray and the sheet bundle set at the manual tray, a moving portion which moves the binding device to a first binding position for performing the binding process on the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray and a second binding position for performing the binding process on the sheet bundle set at the manual tray, and a controller which causes the binding device, in a case that the binding process is not performed on the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, to wait due to the moving portion at the second binding position side as being at the outside of a sheet introducing area where sheets are introduced to the processing tray. | 02-05-2015 |
20150035932 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing system and printing apparatus are provided with improvements in the image quality of an image formed on a printing medium, a peel off region (PO) wherein a transfer layer of a transfer film is not transferred is set corresponding to a card, modified printing data is generated by modifying a gray-scale value of printing data inside a region that is larger than the PO region by predetermined dimensions and including the PO region in the printing data of Y, M, C and Bk into a gray-scale value of 0, an image is formed on the transfer film by heating a thermal head for an image formation panel of an ink ribbon according to the modified printing data. The transfer layer is peeled off by heating the thermal head for a peel off panel of the ink ribbon according to position information of the PO region. | 02-05-2015 |
20150035226 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet post-processing apparatus which facilitates eliminating of a jammed sheet occurring in the path when sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus are stored as being sorted into two directions. The present invention comprises a sheet post-processing apparatus including a first conveying path through which a sheet introduced from a first introducing port is conveyed, a second conveying path through which a sheet introduced from a second introducing port is conveyed, and a stack portion which stacks sheets conveyed through the second conveying path and which is configured to have at least a part of the stack portion be swingable about an axis intersecting with a sheet conveyance direction of a sheet conveyed to the second conveying path between a stack position where sheets are stacked and an open position where the first introducing port of the first conveying path is opened. | 02-05-2015 |
20150028191 | IMAGE SENSOR UNIT AND IMAGE READING DEVICE - A contact-type image sensor is designed to prevent, in an effective manner, dust from entering into a space between a rod lens array and a light receiving sensor. A rod lens array includes a large number of rod lenses between two flat substrates and between spacers located at left and right ends; one row of the rod lenses is arranged in such a way that central axes of the rod lenses become parallel to each other. At an emission side of a rod lens in an axis line direction, each substrate includes an extension portion, whose length is determined based on an operating distance of the rod lens. A lower end of the extension portion of each substrate is in contact with an upper surface of a sensor substrate. In this manner, the rod lens array is positioned with high accuracy with respect to the light receiving sensor. | 01-29-2015 |
20150021844 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus capable of providing relatively strong bonding when a plurality of sheets are bound by corrugation-shaped pressurizing faces with nip-pressure deformation and causing less frictional damage on a sheet face when a sheet bundle is introduced to and discharged from the binding unit. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including a processing tray which includes a sheet placement face on which sheets are stacked, a press binding device which bonds mutually overlapped sheets stacked on the processing tray with pressure-bonding deformation, a taking-off device which applies a taking-off force to sheets bound by the press binding device along the sheet placement face for taking off the sheets from the press binding device, and a sheet bundle discharging device by which the sheets taken off from the press binding device by the taking-off device is discharged from the processing tray. | 01-22-2015 |
20150021374 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus capable of performing a binding process in high productivity as selecting a binding processing unit from a staple binding device arranged in a sheet introducing area of a processing tray and a press binding device arranged outside the introducing area. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including a processing tray on which sheets are stacked, an aligning device which aligns the sheets stacked on the processing tray, a first binding device which binds a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a second binding device which binds a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray having capability to bind a fewer number of sheets than that of the first binding device, and a controller which controls the aligning device so that a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray is aligned at a position being apart from the second binding device by a predetermined distance before the sheet bundle is bound by the second binding device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150021145 | SHEET BUNDLE CONVEYING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle conveying apparatus capable of discharging a sheet bundle from a processing tray where a binding process is performed toward the downstream side in right posture to a right position. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle conveying apparatus which conveys sheets stacked at a stack portion to a storing portion at the downstream side including a first conveying member which conveys sheets at the stack portion by a predetermined distance, a second conveying member which performs relay conveyance of the sheets conveyed by the first conveying member by the predetermined distance as being set to have a higher moving speed than that of the first conveying member, and a driving portion which drives the first conveying member and the second conveying member. | 01-22-2015 |
20150020662 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - A sheet cutting device includes a stage including a placement surface on which a to-be-cut sheet is placed; a strip-shaped fixed blade that is provided in one end portion of the stage; a movable blade that works together with the fixed blade to cut the sheet placed on the placement surface of the stage gradually from one end portion of the sheet to a different one end portion; and a support section that is located between the one end of the fixed blade and the other end in such a way as to be closer to a vertically downward side than the fixed blade and be closer to a vertically upward side than a bottom surface of a waste box placed closer to the vertically downward side than the fixed blade, to temporarily support part of a remnant generated after cutting by the fixed and movable blades. | 01-22-2015 |
20150016922 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus which can be structured small and compact while a setting portion for manually setting a sheet bundle from the outside is arranged at an external casing. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including a manual setting portion to which a sheet bundle is inserted, a binding device which binds a sheet bundle inserted to the manual setting portion, a first driving portion, and a second driving portion; the first driving portion and the second driving portion being arranged respectively at the upper side and the lower side as sandwiching the manual setting portion. | 01-15-2015 |
20150014916 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - To effectively correct a sheet that is transported while being skewed, a post-processing apparatus B provided with a processing tray | 01-15-2015 |
20150014913 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a post-processing apparatus capable of performing conveying to and storing at a predetermined stack tray without causing sheet jamming even when a sheet having larger size than a standard size is introduced. The present invention comprises a post-processing apparatus as a processing tray on which sheets conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction are stacked into a bundle shape, an aligning device which aligns the sheets conveyed to the processing tray, a binding device which performs a binding process on the sheets aligned by the aligning device, and a controller which controls the aligning device so that a sheet is aligned at a position being apart from the binding device by a predetermined distance when the sheet conveyed to the processing tray has a predetermined size or larger. | 01-15-2015 |
20150014386 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus capable of performing a binding process on a sheet bundle inserted to a manual setting portion of an apparatus housing and a binding process on a sheet bundle introduced to a processing tray with a common stapling unit having a simple unit moving mechanism therefor as well as facilitating staple replenishment. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including a processing tray on which sheets are stacked, a binding device which staple-binds a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, and a manual setting portion to which a sheet bundle is set from the outside of the apparatus, the binding device being arranged to be movable among a first position where a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray is to be bound, a second position where a sheet bundle set at the manual setting portion is to be bound, and a third position where staples are replenished to the binding device. | 01-15-2015 |
20150014385 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus capable of performing a binding process on a sheet bundle set at a manual setting portion and a sheet bundle set on a processing tray, respectively, with a simple structure at low cost. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including an external casing, a manual setting portion which is integrally formed with the external casing and to which a sheet bundle is inserted, a binding device which performs a staple-binding process on the sheet bundle inserted to the manual setting portion as being movable between a binding position where the sheet bundle of the manual setting portion is bound and a staple replenishment position where staples are replenished, and an open-close cover which is arranged at the external casing at a position being different from the manual setting portion. | 01-15-2015 |
20150014384 | SHEET BUNDLE BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - The purpose of the present invention is to provide a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus capable of performing a binding process rapidly and efficiently while the binding process can be selected by an operator. The present invention comprises a sheet bundle binding processing apparatus including a processing tray on which sheets are stacked, an insertion portion to which a sheet bundle is inserted, a first binding device which performs a predetermined binding process on a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray and the predetermined binding process on a sheet bundle inserted to the insertion portion, and a second binding device which performs a binding process being different from the predetermined binding process on a sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray. | 01-15-2015 |
20140354752 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - To provide a printing apparatus without waste of a ribbon panel in using a two-side dedicated ribbon, a printing apparatus | 12-04-2014 |
20140319294 | HEAVY LOAD SUPPORT MECHANISM AND HEAVY LOAD LOADING APPARATUS USING THE MECHANISM - In supporting a heavy load with a spring member disposed between a fixed frame and a support frame, provided are a follower member that transfers a spring force of the spring member to the support frame, first and second cam surfaces that regulate motion of the follower member, and a biasing device for bringing the follower member into press-contact with the cam surfaces, the first cam surface generates a friction force to reduce an effect of the heavy load, the second cam surface generates a friction force to reduce an effect of the spring force, and the follower member is made movable in an expansion/contraction direction of the spring, and also in a direction crossing the expansion/contraction direction to control engagement of the follower member and the cam surfaces. | 10-30-2014 |
20140292991 | PRINTING APPARATUS - To provide a printing apparatus with high printing quality that reduces a transport amount of an ink ribbon except printing operation and that suppresses skew of the ink ribbon, diameters of spools | 10-02-2014 |
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20140238614 | TRANSFER APPARATUS - To provide a transfer apparatus in which a transferred image is not displaced during image transfer and further, finish is excellent on the rear end side of a recording medium subjected to transfer, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film | 08-28-2014 |
20140238254 | TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD - To peel off a transfer film varying in easy-to-peel according to the temperature of a recording medium (temperature of an adhesion surface) with a suitable peeling tension and to suppress the occurrence of peeling residues, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film | 08-28-2014 |
20140238252 | TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD - To provide a transfer apparatus that uniforms peeling characteristics and peeling characteristics in transfer processing and that enables a stabilized transfer result to be obtained, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film | 08-28-2014 |
20140139606 | TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD - To perform preheating on a recording medium before transfer with an inexpensive configuration to reduce a transfer failure due to a change in temperature of a transfer film and further reduce thermal damage to the transfer film, in a transfer apparatus for nipping a transfer film and recording medium with a transfer roller and transfer platen, preheating treatment of the recording medium is performed by heat of the transfer roller before transfer processing. When the preheating treatment is performed using the transfer roller, the transfer film exists between the transport roller and the recording medium, and by shifting the position of the transfer film during the preheating treatment, it is possible to suppress thermal damage to the transfer film without applying heat of the transfer roller to only a part of the transfer film excessively. | 05-22-2014 |
20140132697 | TRANSFER APPARATUS - A transfer apparatus for heating a recording medium and a transfer film with a transfer member and a transfer platen transferring an image includes a transfer film transport member, a recording medium transport member, a peeling member peeling off the transfer film, a support member supporting the transfer surface of the recording medium, and a bracket. A recording medium contact point of the peeling member is set in the same position as a first tangent passing through a recording medium contact point of the transfer member and a contact of the recording medium of a transport member and a recording medium contact point of the support member is set in the same position as a second tangent passing through the recording medium contact point of the transfer member and the recording medium contact point of the peeling member or on the transfer platen side relative to the second tangent. | 05-15-2014 |
20140111835 | IMAGE SCANNING UNIT - Provided is an image scanning unit which makes it possible to improve scanning accuracy while also making the overall body thinner by appropriately positioning a plurality of reflection members within an effective space in a carriage frame without wasting space. An image scanning unit, wherein a frame is divided into at least two spaces facing an irradiation surface, a first accommodation unit for accommodating a light source unit is formed in one of the spaces, a second accommodation unit for accommodating at least one reflection member is formed in the other adjacent space, a first reflection member for initially receiving light reflected from the irradiation surface is positioned at the side opposite the irradiation surface with the first accommodation unit positioned therebetween, and a light-shielding member is provided between the first reflection member and the reflection member positioned in the other space and prevents light that has strayed from a scanning light path from the first reflection member from being incident on the reflection member in the other space. | 04-24-2014 |
20140110896 | SHEET STORING APPARATUS - Provided is a sheet storing apparatus including a processing tray and a stack tray arranged respectively at the downstream side of a path sheet discharging port of a sheet discharging path and at the downstream side of the processing tray as forming a step respectively, and a reversing roller arranged at a tray sheet discharging port as being capable of rotating forwardly and reversely to convey a sheet conveyed from the path sheet discharging port selectively to the processing tray and the stack tray, so that a sheet to be conveyed to the processing tray from the path sheet discharging port is conveyed in a state of having corrugations formed thereon and a sheet to be conveyed to the stack tray from the sheet discharging port is stored at the stack tray in a flat shape as having the corrugations corrected after passing through the reversing roller. | 04-24-2014 |
20140103604 | SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - A paper mount surface is disposed while being inclined in the sheet discharge direction or sheet-discharge orthogonal direction, and first and second support members that support the sheet rear and portion in the sheet discharge direction and rear end portion are disposed to be able to shift between actuation positions inside the tray and retract positions. Then, after collecting sheets on both support members, the support member positioned in the direction orthogonal to the inclined direction of the paper mount surface is first retracted from above the tray, and next, the support member positioned in the inclined direction is retracted to the waiting position. | 04-17-2014 |
20140103596 | SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - Disposed are support means for mounting at least a part of a sheet between a sheet discharge outlet and a stack tray disposed with a height difference formed vertically, sheet end regulation means for striking the end edge of the sheet supported by the support means to regulate, and aligning transport means for carrying the sheet toward the regulation means. Then, the transport means is comprised of a friction transport body that engages in the sheet top surface on the support means, and transport body travel means for shifting the transport body by a predetermined amount in the crossing direction inclined a predetermined angle with respect to the sheet discharge direction. The friction transport body is configured so that friction drag of the sheet surface is smaller in the travel orthogonal direction than in the travel direction. | 04-17-2014 |
20140061994 | SHEET STORING APPARATUS, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - 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. | 03-06-2014 |
20140061993 | SHEET STORING APPARATUS, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - 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. | 03-06-2014 |
20140061991 | SHEET STORING APPARATUS, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - In a sheet storing apparatus of the present invention, a tailing end supporting member which temporarily supports a tailing end of a dropping sheet bundle is arranged between a discharging port of a processing tray to discharge the sheet bundle and the upmost sheet on a stack tray as being movable between an operating position above a sheet placement face and a waiting position outside the stack tray. | 03-06-2014 |
20140036015 | TRANSFER DEVICE - A transfer device is provided to realize a higher speed in terms of print time by reducing a conveyance time of an ink ribbon to a beginning position of each ink panel. The transfer device includes an image formation unit conveying the ink ribbon and a recording medium held between a thermal head and a platen, and transferring a transfer image onto the recording medium; a ink ribbon conveyance device for conveying the ink ribbon; a recording medium conveyance device for conveying the recording medium; and a control device for controlling the ink ribbon conveyance device and the recording medium conveyance device to control, in the image formation unit, beginning positions of a transfer start position of the ink panel and a transfer start position of the recording medium. | 02-06-2014 |
20130314756 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - To provide an illumination device in which there is no variation in light intensity distribution of the illumination device, and in which illumination spots, particularly light intensity spots, are not prone to occur in a read image in an image reading device, by maintaining a constant gap between a light source and an end face of a light guide. The illumination device includes: a light guide having an end face for taking in light, a diffuse reflecting surface for diffusely reflecting the light taken in from the end face, and a light exit surface for emitting the light that is diffusely reflected at the diffuse reflecting surface towards an irradiation surface. The illumination device further include a reflector having a diffuse reflecting surface that reflects light from the light source toward the one end face of the light guide. The light guide has, at the one end, a flange portion that abuts the reflector, the light source is mounted to a circuit board, and the reflector is held between the flange portion of the light guide and circuit board so as to maintain a predetermined gap between the light source and light guide. | 11-28-2013 |
20130250026 | PRINTER - Provided is a printer capable of ensuring a large peeling angle at the time of peeling between the transfer film and the ink ribbon by differentiating a conveyance direction of the transfer film at a peeling part on a proceeding passage from the proceeding direction. In the printer which forms an image on a transfer film | 09-26-2013 |
20130249164 | INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE - Provided is an information recording device in which jam processing operation can be easily performed with simple operation when a recording medium such as a card is jammed in a conveyance passage. A card storing section and a medium conveyance passage for conveying a card to an image forming section are arranged in a housing at upper and lower sides and a passage open-close member for removing a card jammed at the image forming section is arranged therebetween. Then, electronic information recording means is incorporated in the passage open-close member and a medium conveyance path which conveys a card toward the electronic information recording means is arranged on a medium introduction passage for feeding a card from the card storing section to the medium conveyance passage. According to the above, a card jammed at the image forming section or the information recording section can be easily removed to the outside of the device by opening the card storing section. | 09-26-2013 |
20130170899 | CASSETTE ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND CASSETTE - A lock member | 07-04-2013 |
20130167742 | PRINTING DEVICE - Provided are a transfer roller | 07-04-2013 |
20130140765 | SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - To provide a sheet storage apparatus for enabling a sheet to be aligned so that the length-direction position and width-direction position of the sheet coincide with correct reference positions in positioning and storing the sheet in a predetermined position on a tray, it is configured that a paper feed rotating member in a center portion of a sheet that is carried out onto the tray and a paper-pressing guide in the side portion are disposed swingably up and down in the sheet load direction, and that the paper-pressing guide moves upward integrally with the paper feed rotating member floating a predetermined amount or more from the sheet top surface on the tray corresponding to a curl of the sheet. | 06-06-2013 |
20130093134 | SHEET STORAGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS - To provide a sheet storage apparatus for enabling sheets that are carried out of an image formation apparatus or the like on the upstream side to be loaded and stored in a predetermined position with a correct posture neatly at high speed, a sheet discharge roller and a reverse roller spaced a distance are disposed in a sheet discharge outlet and a tray, a kick member is provided to be swingable in a vertical direction passing a sheet discharge path of a sheet discharged from the sheet discharge outlet, and a posture of the kick member is controlled by shift means. The shift means controls the kick member among a waiting posture retracted upward from the sheet discharge path, an engagement posture for imposing a load on the sheet to engage, and an actuation posture dropping onto the tray together with the sheet. | 04-18-2013 |
20130063743 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus usingthe same - A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a first unit having a guide device for guiding a sheet, a second unit having a first post-processing device for performing post-processing on the sheet, and a third unit having a second post-processing device for loading sheets and performing post-processing on the sheets in bunch form placed on the processing tray. A first coupling device is provided for coupling the first unit and at least one of the second and third units. A second coupling device is provided for coupling the second unit and the third unit. The second unit and the third unit are capable of being pulled out in the sheet carrying-out direction with respect to the first unit by releasing the first coupling device. The entire or front side of the second unit is shiftable to the first unit side with respect to the third unit by releasing the second coupling device. | 03-14-2013 |
20130010338 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - In the present invention, to provide an image reading apparatus capable to read images of document images having different gloss levels with a reproducibility suitable for uses, a data processing means is provided to irradiate a document image with light from a regular reflection light source and a diffuse reflection light source, and to generate image data based on a regular reflection output value and a diffuse reflection output value obtained from a photoelectric converting means, this data processing means obtaining gloss pixel data by comparing, based on the regular reflection correction value for shading correction of a regular reflection output value, a diffuse correction output value for shading correction of the diffuse reflection output value, and a determining threshold for determining whether or not the regular reflection output value is a gloss pixel, the corrected output value corrected by the regular reflection correction value with the determining threshold, and obtaining a non-gloss pixel data from a corrected output value corrected by the diffuse correction value. | 01-10-2013 |
20120307322 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS - An apparatus is provided capable of guiding regular reflected light from a reading surface to a reflecting mirror when light is irradiated from two directions from light sources to the reading surface, and is suitable to read a gloss image. The light sources for irradiating light to the reading surface from the two directions of different angles are configured of a first light emitter and a second light emitter, a mirror reflecting surface for specularly reflecting light and a translucent surface for passing light therethrough being formed on the surface of a reflecting member for deflecting light from the reading surface to a predetermined reading light path direction, the first light emitter being arranged between the platen and the platen side surface of the reflecting member, the second light emitter being arranged at the back surface of the reflecting member so as to irradiate light on the reading surface through the translucent surface. | 12-06-2012 |
20120287516 | LIGHT QUANTITY ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS, LENS UNIT AND OPTICAL APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A plurality of blade members is overlapped and disposed in the shape of scales in a ring-shaped board having an optical-axis aperture at the center, and is held from above by a driving ring so that each blade member performs open/close motion. At this point, an elastic member is disposed between the blade members and the board to press each blade member against the driving ring side, or an elastic member is disposed between the blade members and the driving ring to press the blade members against the board side, and in this state, the blade members are opened and closed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120286464 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device | 11-15-2012 |
20120275838 | SHEET FOLDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE APPARATUS - In a sheet folding apparatus for forming first folding and second folding in a sheet, to enable the sheet to be folded in an accurate fold position in second folding, when the front end of the sheet which is first folded in a nip position Np | 11-01-2012 |
20120261872 | SHEET STACKING DEVICE AND SHEET FOLDING DEVICE - According to the present invention, a stacking face ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120250114 | SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS - A sheet transport apparatus that transports a sheet to a reading section for reading the sheet, has a reading front roller pair contacting with a front end of the sheet to form a register loop in the sheet; a first transport path extending curvingly toward the reading front roller pair; a second transport path extending curvingly toward the reading front roller pair after joining the first transport path; a first register space in which a register loop is formed in a sheet guided along the first transport path; and a second register space in which a register loop is formed in a sheet guided along the second transport path. The first register space is provided on the upstream side of a junction position in which the first transport path joins the second transport path, and the second register space is provided on the downstream side of the junction position. | 10-04-2012 |
20120229868 | METHOD OF READING DOCUMENT IMAGE DATE - In a method of reading document image data scanned by a scanner apparatus, upon receipt of a scan start command from the data reception apparatus, memory areas are set for storing image data in a data storage section of the data reception apparatus to set a reading condition; a scan start command is transmitted to start reading operations; the scanner apparatus is instructed to transmit the image data, to receive and store the image data in the data storage section; the image data is transferred to the data reception apparatus in response to a data transferring request command from a host apparatus; a document end signal received from the scanner apparatus is transmitted to the data storage section; and subsequent original document sheets are fed based on available status of the data storage section, without transmitting another scan start command. | 09-13-2012 |
20120228822 | SHEET TRANSPORT APPARATUS - A sheet transport apparatus for transporting a sheet along a transport path has a sheet transport mechanism having a plurality of transport rollers that transports a sheet, and a jam clearing mechanism to remove a sheet which causes a transport failure and is jammed on the transport path. The jam clearing mechanism has a coupling member coupled to a transport roller, a jam clearing dial that transfers a rotation force to the transport roller via the coupling member, and a switching device for switching so that the coupling member separates from the transport roller in transporting a sheet, while being coupled to the transport roller in clearing a jam. | 09-13-2012 |
20120218616 | LIGHT QUANTITY ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS, LENS UNIT AND OPTICAL APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A light quantity adjustment apparatus has a board including an exposure aperture, blade members adjusting a quantity of light passing through the exposure aperture, and a driving device for driving the blade members. The driving device is provided with an electromagnetic coil, a magnet rotor rotating by applying a current to the electromagnetic coil, a rotating shaft, a coil frame having bearings, a reference surface for positioning formed in the coil frame, and a shield yoke supported relative to the reference surface and magnetically shielding the magnet rotor. The board includes a support plane supporting the blade members, a concave portion in the support plane to store the driving member, a support portion in the concave portion to support one end of the shield yoke, and a holding device for storing and supporting the driving member in the concave portion. | 08-30-2012 |
20120199264 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF AN APERTURE DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an aperture device for forming a filter into a predetermined shape by die cutting, comprises a sheet setting step of positioning and setting a filter sheet material in a die-cutting forming die, a density boundary line identifying step of optically reading a density pattern of the light-reducing film and identifying a boundary line of changes, a die-cutting position correcting step of making a relative position adjustment to the sheet material and a die-cutting position of the die-cutting forming die, a filter forming step of forming the filter sheet material into a predetermined shape by die cutting, and a bonding step of bonding the filter to the base plate. In the filter forming step, an alignment reference face is formed concurrently with forming the filter sheet material into a predetermined shape by die cutting, and formed in a predetermined positional relationship with the density boundary line. | 08-09-2012 |
20120194796 | LIGHT QUANTITY ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS LENS UNIT AND OPTICAL APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - This light quantity adjustment apparatus is provided with a pair of first and second boards each having, an exposure aperture, and a plurality of diaphragm blades supported between the pair of broads to be openable and closable to adjust a quantity of light passing through the exposure aperture, and each of the diaphragm blades is comprised of a blade substrate in which are formed a base end portion positioned outside the exposure aperture, and a blade portion that moves forward and backward with respect to the exposure aperture to form a diaphragm aperture, and an auxiliary substrate, having a joint surface to be joined to the base end portion, in which are formed a first shaft portion penetrating the base end portion from the joint surface, and a second shaft portion provided to stand on the side opposite to the joint surface. | 08-02-2012 |
20120176460 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The present invention provides a printing device which provides high printing quality. The printing device includes: an image forming section which has a thermal head | 07-12-2012 |
20120154884 | Light quantity adjustment apparatus and image pickup apparatus - A light quantity adjustment apparatus includes a pair of substrates having a light-path aperture; a plurality of diaphragm blades disposed between the pair of substrates; a driving ring that opens and closes the plurality of diaphragm blades; and a driving device. The plurality of diaphragm blades is supported by the substrate via a first guide plate made of a resin film. The substrate and the first guide plate are provided with guide grooves fitted into protrusions formed in the plurality of diaphragm blades to guide the blades. Guide grooves of the substrate are formed of concave grooves. Guide grooves of the first guide plate are formed of through holes. The through holes of the first guide plate have a narrower width than the concave grooves of the substrate to engage in the protrusions of the diaphragm blades and to guide the diaphragm blades in the open and close direction. | 06-21-2012 |
20120133231 | Axial gap type rotating apparatus and axial gap type generator - The invention is to provide an axial gap type rotating apparatus for enabling downsizing and high output by causing the magnetic field to pass across the coils effectively in arranging the magnets and coils to oppose one another in the axial direction of the rotor shaft, in which in arranging pluralities of segment magnets and segment coils radially to oppose one another in the circumferential direction of the rotor shaft, each segment coil is comprised of an air-core coil having a non-winding portion in the center, a segment yoke piece of soft magnetic material is provided in the non-winding portion while being in non-contact with the winding, and the segment yoke pieces are arranged discontinuously in a separate state for each of non-winding portions of a plurality of segment coils. | 05-31-2012 |
20120063005 | MOTOR HAVING SMALL SIZE AND HIGH OUTPUT, AND LIGHT AMOUNT ADJUSTMENT DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE MOTOR - A light amount adjustment device including a motor which can be reduced in size by reducing radial and axial dimensions and makes it possible to increase the motor output. The device has a stator of a motor drive mechanism formed integrally with a holding member fixed to a cam member with aperture blades and a rotary member for driving them sandwiched therebetween. A stator includes a support portion, and first and second magnetic pole portions. The first and second magnetic pole portions extend toward an outer periphery of the rotor and coils are inserted thereon from respective extending ends. The extending ends are disposed in a manner opposed to the outer periphery of the rotor. The two portions are disposed with an angle therebetween such that respective lines extending in the extending directions intersect with each other. | 03-15-2012 |
20120004086 | Sheet folding apparatus - To enable a sheet to be folded in an accurate position with a simplified folding mechanism in performing folding processing on the sheet with a pair of folding rollers, a second transport path is disposed in a direction for crossing a first transport path for guiding a sheet from a carry-in portion to a carrying-out portion, and in the cross portion are disposed a folding roller pair for performing folding processing on a sheet, and a folding deflecting member for inserting a fold of the sheet in the nip portion. Then, the folding deflecting member is comprised of a driven roller that comes into press-contact with a roller periphery of the folding roller pair, and a shift member for shifting the driven roller from a waiting position to an actuation position, and by the operation of shifting the driven roller from the waiting position outside the path to the actuation position, the sheet front end portion is fed to the nip portion from an upstream-side guide path formed in the second transport path. At this point, the shift velocity of the driven roller is made higher than the velocity of the sheet sent from the first transport path. | 01-05-2012 |
20110316215 | Post-processing apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - To provide a post-processing apparatus for enabling a bunch of sheets and a single sheet to be folded in simplified structure, and further enabling the folded sheet and sheets that are not folded to be mixed and bound, the post-processing apparatus has a processing tray to collate and collect sheets to perform binding processing, and a folding processing path having a folding processing section, and a folded sheet carrying-out path for carrying out a folded sheet is provided on the downstream side of the folding processing path. Then, the folded sheet carrying-out path is comprised of a circulating path for guiding the folded sheet again to the folding processing section, a post-processing path for guiding the folded sheet to the processing tray to perform post-processing, and a sheet discharge path for guiding the folded sheet to a storage stacker. | 12-29-2011 |
20110297086 | Adhesive Applicator - Bookbinding apparatus adhesive applicator accurately, briefly controls adhesive temperature to a set value by selecting, in accordance with adhesive initial temperature, one of a plurality of temperature-controller heating modes defining different supply powers and supply durations for supplying power to an adhesive-container heater to control its heating temperature. A sensor detects the temperature of the adhesive in the container at applicator start-up, or on restarting a post-standby applicator. In accordance with the detected temperature, one of the heating modes is selected to heat the adhesive. The applicator warm-up time is thus set in response to the state of the adhesive: If solidified, the adhesive is heated and melted in a maximum supply-power, supply-duration mode; if low-temperature liquefied, it is heated and melted in a second-magnitude supply-power, supply-duration mode; and if the adhesive temperature is high, it is heated and melted in a minimal supply-power, supply-duration mode. | 12-08-2011 |
20110294639 | Sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - In a sheet folding apparatus, to enable a jammed sheet to be removed with ease when a jam occurs, a casing having a carry-in entrance and a carrying-out exit is divided into an upper unit and a lower unit via a first transport path for carrying a sheet from the carry-in entrance to the carrying-out exit, a second transport path for performing folding processing on a sheet is disposed in the direction for crossing the first transport path, and in the upper unit are disposed a sheet front end switchback path for reversing and carrying the sheet toward a folding roller pair and sheet deflecting means for guiding the sheet to the folding roller pair. Then, the upper unit is coupled to the lower unit to be openable and closable by a hinge shaft rotating around one side end portion orthogonal to the sheet transport direction of the first transport path. | 12-01-2011 |
20110233841 | Post-processing system - 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. | 09-29-2011 |
20110222992 | Bookmaking Apparatus - A bookmaking apparatus includes a first path to convey a sheet bundle, a second path to convey a cover sheet, a joining stage disposed at an intersection of the first path and the second path, a gripping conveyance device arranged for gripping and a conveyance device arranged at a downstream side of the joining stage for conveying out the cover sheet and sheet bundle. The gripping conveyance device includes clamping members to grip the sheet bundle and clamping control device for opening and closing the clamping members. The clamping control device operates the clamping members to grip a lower edge of the sheet bundle when joining the sheet bundle to the cover sheet, and the clamping members to retract to an upstream side of the first path and to grip the sheet bundle again when conveying the joined sheet bundle to the conveyance device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110212817 | Sheet folding apparatus - To reduce a power consumption amount of an apparatus for selectively performing folding processing in carrying a sheet from a carry-in portion to a carrying-out portion, provided are a first transport path | 09-01-2011 |
20110211935 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 09-01-2011 |
20110157666 | Image reading apparatus - To enable accurate image reading and concurrently therewith, enable a reading optical system to be varied easily in an apparatus configuration in which first and second read portions are disposed in planes inclined a predetermined angle, the apparatus has an apparatus housing | 06-30-2011 |
20110109038 | Document transport apparatus - A document transport apparatus for transporting a document sheet to a reading portion to read the document is provided with a first switchback portion for switching back the document sheet of which the front side is read in the reading portion to transport again to the document reading portion, and a second switchback path for switching back the document sheet of which both sides are read to discharge to a sheet discharge tray, and executes the document transport operation so that two sequentially transported sheets are transported in each of the first switchback portion and the second switchback portion with the sheets overlapping in reading the both sides of the sheets, and it is thereby possible to shorten the processing time of reading both sides of the sheets and to improve productivity. | 05-12-2011 |
20110103866 | Sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - To provide a folding mechanism for folding a sheet with a simplified structure having no fear of causing a deviation from the fold position, wrinkle and the like, provided are a transport path | 05-05-2011 |
20110103859 | Method of sheet alignment and method of post-processing comprising the same and method of image formation - A method of a sheet alignment includes carrying a sheet from a sheet discharging port; transferring the sheet on a tray device toward a sheet end regulating device; moving the sheet on the tray device in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet discharging direction for widthwise alignment; and abutting again the sheet on the tray device against the sheet end regulating device while the sheet is in the widthwise alignment. When the sheet on the tray device is transferred toward the sheet end regulating device, the sheet is transferred at a predetermined speed. Before the sheet abuts against the sheet end regulating device, the speed is reduced to provide a conveying force to the sheet without stopping. While the conveying force is continuously applied to the sheet, the sheet is aligned in the width direction to thereby prevent skewing of the sheet relative to the sheet end regulating device. | 05-05-2011 |
20110101593 | Sheet feeding apparatus, and sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the sheet feeding apparatus - The invention enables skew of a sheet to be reliably corrected with a simplified structure in feeding the sheet to a processing position of sheet folding or the like using a roller pair. Provided are a transport roller pair ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110101591 | Sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - A sheet transport path extending from a carry-in entrance to a carrying-out exit is made small and compact in an apparatus configuration provided with a path without performing the folding processing and another path to perform the folding processing in between the carry-in entrance and the carrying-out exit. The configuration is provided with a first transport path | 05-05-2011 |
20110083572 | Card printing apparatus - A card printing apparatus for sequentially printing a plurality of colors on a card has a card supply unit for supplying a card; a card conveyance path provided linearly from the card supply unit for conveying the card; a conveyance device provided on the card conveyance path for conveying the card; a printing unit provided on the card conveyance path; a card cleaning member disposed between the card supplying unit and the printing unit provided within the returning range of the card while printing the card conveyed in reverse; and a card cleaning member moving device for moving the card cleaning member to a retreated position separated from the card cleaning member and the card conveyance path, and an operating position. The card cleaning member is moved to the retreated position when the card is conveyed in reverse while printing. | 04-14-2011 |
20110058875 | Sheet folding apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - A sheet folding path for performing folding processing on a sequentially fed sheet to carry to the downstream side is made small and compact. An apparatus for performing folding processing on a sheet from a carry-in entrance | 03-10-2011 |
20110051202 | Traveling unit driving apparatus and image reading apparatus provided with the driving apparatus - Provided is a traveling unit driving apparatus where a driving belt of the traveling unit is manufactured with ease, and concurrently therewith, can be coupled reliably to the unit in a state with high durability. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050832 | Printing apparatus and printing method - A printing apparatus | 03-03-2011 |
20110049790 | Sheet collecting apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - In the invention, to construct, in a simplified structure, a compact sheet collecting apparatus that enables sheets successively carried out of a sheet discharge outlet to be reliably collated and collected in the order of pages, a carry-in guide member is disposed between the sheet discharge outlet and sheet collecting means, and is comprised of a pivot point, a slide-contact guide surface that swings on the pivot point corresponding to a load amount of the sheet collecting means to guide a sheet front end fed from the sheet discharge outlet onto the uppermost sheet, and a sheet pressing portion that is continued to the slide-contact guide surface and that presses the uppermost sheet on the sheet collecting means. Concurrently therewith, the pivot point, slide-contact guide surface and sheet pressing portion are arranged in this order in the sheet discharge direction from the sheet discharge outlet. Then, a stopper means for regulating a front end position of a sheet to be loaded on the sheet collecting means regulates a front end position of the sheet so that a contact point, where the front end of the sheet fed from the sheet discharge outlet first comes into contact with the slide-contact guide surface, is positioned on the downstream side in the sheet discharge direction from a rear end of the sheet loaded on the sheet collecting means. | 03-03-2011 |
20110006476 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image formation system provided with the apparatus - To provide a sheet post-processing apparatus enabling a sheet to be aligned in a predetermined collection position irrespective of the weighing capacity of the sheet and image formation surface in dropping and collecting the sheet onto a tray from a sheet discharge outlet, the apparatus has a tray means for collecting a sheet from the sheet discharge outlet, and a sheet discharge rotating body for transferring the sheet that is carried out to the tray means toward a sheet end regulation means, and is configured to be able to adjust the timing of shifting the sheet discharge rotating body to an operation position engaging in the sheet from a withdrawal position above the tray corresponding to image formation conditions of the sheet. | 01-13-2011 |
20110002755 | Bookmaking method - In bookmaking, a sheet bundle is held in a substantially vertical posture. At first an adhesive is applied to a bottom edge of the sheet bundle in a condition that the bottom edge of the sheet bundle and an adhesive application member are pressed together with a first contact pressure to apply the adhesive between the sheets. Then, the adhesive is applied to the bottom edge in a condition that the bottom edge of the sheet bundle and adhesive application member are pressed together with a second contact pressure weaker than the first contact pressure, or are in a non-contact situation. | 01-06-2011 |
20100328736 | Optical reader apparatus - To provide an image reading apparatus for enabling an optical carriage movably supported in a rail member to be locked reliably in a predetermined position of an apparatus frame without causing failure by shock in transport, one of the apparatus frame and optical carriage is provided with a lock member traveling between a release position and a lock position, and a biasing member for biasing the lock member in a predetermined direction, and the other one is provided with an engagement receiving portion being fitted with an engagement portion formed in the lock member. Then, the engagement portion and the engagement receiving portion are configured to inhibit movements in the scanning direction of the optical carriage in the lock position, and the biasing force of the biasing member is concurrently configured to act on the carriage in the direction orthogonal to the scanning direction so as to increase friction between the carriage and a traveling rail. | 12-30-2010 |
20100320672 | Sheet folding device and post-processing apparatus and image forming system comprising the same - A sheet folding device includes a sheet guide for holding a sheet bunch, a folding roll device having a first folding roll and a second folding roll, a folding blade inserting the sheet bunch supported on the sheet guide to a nip position between the first and second folding rolls, and a blade driving device for moving the folding blade from a standby position to the nip position on the folding rolls. The sheet guide has a curved guide section supporting the sheet bunch and an outlet guide section connected to the curved guide section to guide the sheet bunch to the folding rolls. The curved guide section has a curved guide plate supporting the sheet bunch so that the sheet bunch rolls back toward the folding roll device. The outlet guide section includes a pair of opposite guide plates in folding the sheet bunch by the folding blade. | 12-23-2010 |
20100283198 | Method of aligning sheets - In a method of aligning a sheet on a tray, the sheet on the tray is transferred toward a stopper member in one direction by a transfer device. Then, the sheet is moved in a sheet width direction perpendicular to the one direction to align the sheet in the sheet width direction by an aligning device. Further, force is provided to the sheet on the tray to move the sheet in the one direction by the transfer device while the aligning device regulates the sheet in the sheet width direction. | 11-11-2010 |
20100278617 | Trimming apparatus and bookbinding apparatus provided with the same - To provide a trimming apparatus that does not stain a fore edge end by an adhesive adhering to a blade receiving surface in trimming a bunch of sheets subjected to bookbinding using the adhesive, the trimming apparatus has a transport path | 11-04-2010 |
20100260582 | Bookbinding Apparatus - In binding a cover sheet together with a sheet bundle, ever-accurate spine-creasing irrespective of bundle thickness is made possible. A sheet stacker stacks sheets into bundles, an adhesive applicator applies adhesive to a spine part of the sheet bundles, and a cover-sheet binder binds cover sheets together with the spine parts. The cover-sheet binder is constituted from a left-and-right pair of spine-creasing press members arranged free to shift between standby and spine-creasing positions; a shifter that reciprocates the spine-creasing press members between the standby and spine-creasing positions; and a controller. The controller functions to vary, in accordance with sheet bundle thickness, any of: (1) the standby position of the press members; (2) the start time of an operation whereby the press members are shifted from the standby to the spine-creasing position; or (3) the traveling speed of the press members in shifting from the standby to the spine-creasing position. | 10-14-2010 |
20100237726 | Stator structure and rotating electrical machine using the same - The invention provides a rotating electrical machine provided with stable rotation characteristics for enabling each core to be reliably fixed in arranging a plurality of cores annularly around the rotor even when the dimensional error occurs in manufacturing accuracy of each core, causing each division core itself to enhance the cooling property, and resolving instability of magnetic reluctance between division cores, where the rotating electrical machine has a plurality of stator cores obtained by laminating electromagnetic steel plates, winding coils wound around the stator cores via insulators, a pair of first and second bracket members that hold the plurality of stator cores from the front and back in the rotary shaft direction of the magnet rotor, and a fastening member that couples the first and second bracket members, in the first bracket member is formed a first contact surface for striking one end face of each of the stator cores to regulate so as to arrange the plurality of stator cores annularly, in the second bracket is formed a second contact surface for striking the other end faces of the stator cores to regulate, the first contact surface constitutes a reference plane to align one end faces of the plurality of stator cores on the same plane, the second contact surface is formed of a deformation surface deformable to follow the other end faces of the plurality of stator cores, and at least one of the pair of first and second brackets is formed of a ring-shaped magnetic material for magnetically coupling between the division cores. | 09-23-2010 |
20100225112 | Power generator and power generation system including this power generator - According to the present invention, there is provided a power generator that can generate power having a predetermined voltage and a predetermined current even though external energy is slight or excessively strong when generating power based on water power or wind power, the power generator comprising: a magnet rotor that rotates upon receiving rotating force from a driving source; and a stator coil arranged to face magnetic poles of the magnet rotor, the magnet rotor including: a rotary shaft rotatably and axially supported by a housing; and permanent magnets that form a plurality of magnetic poles on a concentric circle with the rotary shaft at the center. The stator coil includes: a plurality of coreless winding wires arranged to face the magnetic poles formed in the rotor; and a three-phase output terminal. Thus, the plurality of coreless winding wires are formed of effective output winding wires whose number is three or its multiple number, and they are connected with the output terminal through switching means so as to enable switching a total number of turns to a large or small value. This switching means is connected to controlling means in such a manner that the total number of turns is reduced when the rotating force from the driving source is large and the total number of turns is increased when the rotating force is small. | 09-09-2010 |
20100214803 | Led light source and image reading apparatus - The present invention provides an LED light source optimal as a light source of image reading apparatuses, and the light source is used in an image reading apparatus comprised of a platen for mounting a read original, a light source for lighting the read original mounted on the platen, a lens means for condensing reflected light from a main scanning line of the read original lighted by the LED light source, and a light-receiving means for receiving the reflected light from the main scanning line of the read original condensed by the lens means, and has an LED that is a light-emitting source, and a light guide for reflecting the light of the LED by an inner surface thereof to diffuse in the shape of the main scanning line, where the LED is disposed in an end portion in the main scanning line direction of the light guide, the light guide has an inner surface opposed to a light-emitting surface of the LED forming a curved reflecting surface for reflecting in the main scanning line direction, the LED is disposed out of a critical angle region at the end in the main scanning line direction of the curved reflecting surface, the light guide has a plurality of reflecting surface bodies spaced at predetermined pitches in the main scanning line direction with the bodies surface-opposed to the LED side inside an inner surface reflection optical path of the light guide to reflect the light of the LED toward the outside of the light guide along the main scanning line, and a length in the perpendicular direction to the main scanning line direction of each of the reflecting surface bodies is adjusted corresponding to a light amount to reflect. | 08-26-2010 |
20100209215 | ADHESIVE APPLICATION APPARATUS AND BOOKBINDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an adhesive application apparatus that can form a uniform application layer when applying an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle by an application roller even though a length or a width of the sheet bundle is not less than or not greater than a predetermined size, and a liquid amount in an immersed coating layer formed between the surface of the application roller and the application surface of the sheet bundle can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing based on an application length and/or an application width of the sheet bundle. Therefore, level adjusting means for adjusting a liquid surface level in an equipped accommodating chamber including an application roller to increase or decrease is provided in a glue container. This level adjusting means increases the liquid surface level above a predetermined value by resupplying a solid adhesive to the glue container, or is configured to enable adjusting a position of a reflux amount restricting member that restricts (stems) an adhesive amount refluxed along the surface of an application roller, or configured to enable moving an occupied position of an accommodated liquid capacity adjusting member that adjusts an allowable accommodation amount of the adhesive in the accommodating chamber. | 08-19-2010 |
20100205426 | MICROPROCESSOR MONITORING APPARATUS AND MICROPROCESSOR MONITORING METHOD - To provide a method for enabling a microprocessor to be restarted after rewriting a program without providing a dedicated circuit and an apparatus using the method, a timer means for counting a predetermined clock is controlled in the following first and second mode, where in the first mode, the timer means is rest (count-cleared) at predetermined intervals by a program so as to monitor an operating status of the program, and in the second mode, the microprocessor is restarted without resetting the timer means at predetermined intervals by the program. | 08-12-2010 |
20100202857 | BOOKMAKING APPARATUS - A bookmaking apparatus includes a first path to convey a sheet bundle, a second path intersecting the first path to convey a cover sheet, a joining stage disposed at an intersection of the first path and the second path, a gripping conveyance device arranged for gripping and conveying the sheet bundle along the first path, an adhesive application device for applying adhesive to a bottom side edge of the sheet bundle, a backup member arranged to support the cover sheet at the joining stage, and a folding conveyance device for folding and conveying the cover sheet and sheet bundle. After the cover sheet and the sheet bundle are adhered together and before the backup member retracts from the first path to a position outside the first path, the gripping conveyance device is retracted to separate a bottom edge of the sheet bundle from the backup member. | 08-12-2010 |
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20100187743 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 07-29-2010 |
20100150636 | Sheet collecting method, sheet correcting apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and image formation system - The invention provides a sheet collecting apparatus for enabling sheets to be loaded and stored in a neatly aligned state with respect to a regulation stopper disposed in a tray when loading and storing the sheets on the tray, where the apparatus has a tray means for bearing and storing sheets from a sheet discharge outlet, a regulation stopper for regulating a sheet by the sheet carried in the tray means striking the stopper, a forward/backward rotation roller for feeding the sheet carried onto the tray means from the sheet discharge outlet against the regulation stopper to align, a roller lifting/lowering means for supporting the forward/backward rotation roller to be able to move up and down between an operating position in which the roller comes into contact with an uppermost sheet and a standby position in which the roller is withdrawn above the sheet with respect to the tray means, a sheet pressing guide disposed between the forward/backward rotation roller and the regulation stopper to press the uppermost sheet on the tray means, a pressing force reducing means for reducing a pressing force of the sheet pressing guide acting on the uppermost sheet, and a control means for controlling the forward/backward rotation roller, the roller lifting/lowering means and the pressing force reducing means. | 06-17-2010 |
20100143015 | Sheet processing apparatus and image formation system provided with the same - The invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus enabling a piled amount of debris paper scraps in a debris storage box to be detected accurately in a simplified mechanism in performing cutting processing on sheets, and the sheet processing apparatus is provided with an apparatus frame, sheet processing means disposed in the apparatus frame to perform cutting such as punching and trimming on a transported sheet, debris storage box for storing paper debris generated in the sheet processing means, and debris amount detecting means for detecting a debris amount inside the debris storage box, where the debris storage box is supported by the apparatus frame to be able to move to positions between an installation position for storing the paper debris and a non-installation position for removing stored paper debris in an orthogonal direction to a transport direction of the transported sheet, and the debris amount detecting means is formed of a pair of sensors arranged to oppose each other in positions for enabling the sensors to detect a debris amount piled inside the debris storage box present in the installation position in the orthogonal direction to the transport direction of the transported sheet. | 06-10-2010 |
20100140861 | Sheet collecting apparatus, post processing apparatus and image formation system - The invention is to enable sheets to be aligned neatly even when front ends of the sheets are displaced to the front and back in overlapping the front and rear sheets and transporting the sheets from a sheet discharge outlet onto the tray, and provides an apparatus having a sheet transport path for transporting a sheet from a carry-in entrance to a predetermined sheet discharge outlet, a tray means for bearing and storing sheets, a regulation stopper for regulating the sheet by an end edge of the sheet striking the stopper, a holding path for temporarily holding a sheet in the sheet transport path, an alignment roller for transporting the sheet fed from the sheet discharge outlet to the regulation stopper, and a control means for controlling transport of the sheet, where the control means controls so that in the first operation mode, the alignment roller applies a transport force to the sheet by a predetermined pressing force after the rear end of the sheet is carried into the tray means, and that in the second operation mode, for a period during which rear ends of overlapped sheets are carried into the tray means and then reach the regulation stopper, the alignment roller changes the pressing force acting on the sheets from strong to weak and thereby applies the stepwise varied transport force. | 06-10-2010 |
20100118355 | Image reading apparatus - To provide an image reading apparatus capable of reading original document images while performing control for blinking a line light source in the apparatus without causing a change in the hue of read data of the documents, the image reading apparatus is to apply light to an original document, read the reflected light, and thereby acquire image data of the document, and has a line light source for applying light to an original document, driving means for moving the document or a carriage installed with the line light source, a line sensor for receiving the reflected light of the document moving in the sub-scanning direction relatively to the carriage to convert into image data, and control means for performing control for blinking the line light source, control for driving the driving means, and control for capturing the image data from the line sensor, where the control means adjusts a light quantity of the line light source by controlling the number of times of lighting signals with a predetermined lighting time width. | 05-13-2010 |
20100097683 | Neutral filter, light quantity adjustment apparatus, image pickup apparatus, manfacturing method of neutral filter, and die-cutting forming apparatus neutral filter - The present invention is to provide an optical filter for enabling a neutral filter for suppressing the quantity of passage light in an optical path to be mass-produced in an accurate position of an optical path opening with correct density characteristics without fluctuations, and the neutral filter is comprised of a filter | 04-22-2010 |
20100085615 | Image reading apparatus and image reading method - An image reading apparatus is provided which enables image data of high S/N ratio with constant resolution to be acquired without fluctuations in resolution over the entire area of an original document, while actualizing the compact image reading apparatus by minimizing the spaces on the opposite end sides in the sub-scanning direction of the platen, has a line light source for applying light to the original document, a carriage installed with the line light source to travel in a sub-scanning direction of the document, a stepping motor for driving the carriage, a line sensor for receiving the reflected light of the document guided by the optical means to convert into image data, and control means for performing traveling control of the carriage, blinking control of the line light source, and control for capturing the image data from the line sensor, and captures the image data from the line sensor while varying a period of a motor clock signal to drive the stepping motor for a duration of acceleration control for starting traveling of the carriage to reach constant-velocity traveling after starting reading of the document. | 04-08-2010 |
20100009829 | Sheet Finishing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same - A sheet finishing apparatus includes a first conveyance path connected to a sheet conveyance inlet, a second conveyance path branching from the first conveyance path, a folding roller device disposed in the second Conveyance path for folding the sheet, and a sheet discharge path arranged vertically parallel to the second conveyance path and guiding the folded sheet from the second conveyance path to a sheet conveyance outlet. The second conveyance path includes a first guide path located at a downstream side relative to the folding roller device and guiding a rear side of the sheet, and a second guide path located at an upstream side relative to the folding roller device and guiding a front side of the folded sheet conveyed from the folding roller device. A gate is formed for selectively guiding the folded sheet from the second guide path to the storage device or the sheet discharge path. | 01-14-2010 |
20090316226 | Image reading apparatus - It is an object to provide an image reading apparatus for facilitating an optical adjustment of a mirror in supporting a carriage installed with the mirror on right and left rail faces to enable the carriage to move along a platen. | 12-24-2009 |
20090310194 | Image reading system - It is an object of the invention to provide an image reading system enabling a plurality of image original document sheets to be consecutively read at high speed. | 12-17-2009 |
20090289408 | Sheet transport apparatus and image reading apparatus - A sheet transport apparatus is provided with a processing section having a processing position to process a sheet, and a first roller pair and a second roller pair disposed at the front and back of the processing section to transport the sheet to the processing section at a predetermined velocity. Each of driving transmission mechanisms respectively for driving the first roller pair and second roller pair is provided with a rotary shaft for supporting the roller, a rotary member provided with a circular fit hole to fit with the rotary shaft, and a holder member in which a D-shaped press-fit hole is formed to press-fit to the rotary shaft, and to the rotary shaft are attached the rotary member with the circular fit hole formed therein and the holder member with the D-shaped press-fit hole formed therein. Then, in attaching the holder member and rotary member to the rotary shaft, a concave portion of the holder member is fitted with a convex portion of the rotary member so that the rotary member and the holder member are substantially integrally coupled. | 11-26-2009 |
20090284808 | Document reading apparatus - Provided is a document reading apparatus in which an original document fed by feeding means to contact glass having a predetermined reading position is read by reading means. Then, the document reading apparatus is provided with a guide unit having a guide member for guiding the original document to be fed to the contact glass, and a backup unit to back up the original document to be read, and the guide unit is configured to be able to travel between a close position to near the contact glass and an open position to distance from the contact glass. In the guide unit is formed a concave portion for removably accommodating the backup unit, and the backup unit is configured so that an original document guide face of the guide member and an original document guide face in the backup unit form a continuous guide face when the guide unit travels to the close position. | 11-19-2009 |
20090275454 | Sheet finishing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same - A sheet finishing apparatus includes first and second conveyance devices for conveying a sheet on a sheet conveyance path, a folding roller device for folding the sheet disposed between the first and second conveyance devices, a folded sheet conveyance path for conveying a folded sheet from the folding roller device, and first and second stopper devices. The first and second stopper devices are respectively disposed downstream and upstream of the sheet conveyance path relative to the folding roller device. The first stopper device positions and aligns a leading edge of the sheet, and guides the sheet conveyed by the first conveyance device to the folding roller device, and the second stopper device positions and aligns a trailing edge of the sheet, and transfers the sheet reversely by the second conveyance device to the folding roller device. | 11-05-2009 |
20090268263 | Image reading apparatus - To provide an image reading apparatus enabling a long light source inside the image reading apparatus to be uniformly cooled in the main scanning direction with a simplified structure without increasing the number of components of the apparatus. An image reading apparatus having an optical reader section that has a long light source along the main scanning direction to read an original, a first holding section that holds the light source, a second holding section adjacent to the first holding section on the side surface side in the sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction of the first holding section, and a partition disposed between the first holding section and the second holding section, where in the partition are formed a first ventilating opening comprised of one or more openings for air inside the first holding section to move to the inside of the second holing section, and second ventilating openings comprised of a plurality of openings provided in the main scanning direction for the air inside the second holding section to move to the inside of the first holding section. | 10-29-2009 |
20090261522 | Sheet processing apparatus and image formation system using the apparatus - To provide a sheet processing apparatus enabling a bunch of sheets to be neatly stored on a stack tray without a crease, buckling and the like occurring in the bunch of sheets in carrying out the bunch of sheets on a processing tray to the stack tray on the downstream side, provided are a sheet discharge path (first carry-in path P | 10-22-2009 |
20090261521 | Sheet post-processing apparatus - To provide a sheet post-processing apparatus where a cutting means for cutting a fore-edge portion of a center-folded bunch of sheets is disposed in a position spaced from a sheet discharge outlet in an apparatus frame to eliminate the risk for inflicting a wound on the body such as the finger, hand and the like of an operator, provided are an end binding means ( | 10-22-2009 |
20090202134 | PRINT INSPECTING APPARATUS - A print inspecting apparatus capable of identifying a page of a form corresponding to a clipped image without requiring a special barcode or printing, is provided. A print inspecting apparatus | 08-13-2009 |
20090195851 | Magnet rotor, electromagnetic drive device and light quantity adjustment device using the magnet rotor - A magnet rotor includes a drive arm with a rotary shaft, and an anisotropic permanent magnet having an axis of magnetization. The drive arm is composed of a light transmitting resin. The magnet has a cylindrical shape with a hollow center portion through which the rotary shaft is disposed. The drive arm and the permanent magnet are bonded together by a light curable resin adhesive. | 08-06-2009 |
20090179375 | Sheet accumulation apparatus and image forming system having same - The invention is to provide a sheet accumulation apparatus enabling to uniformly load tabbed sheets into a train of sheets for load and store the sheets on a tray. The sheet accumulation apparatus has a sheet outlet for successively discharging the sheets, a tray means for loading to hold the sheets thereon, a sheet carrier means for discharging the sheets from the sheet outlet to the side of a downstream, a sheet front end regulating means for colliding the sheets sent by the sheet carrier means against the regulating means at the sheet front ends and regulating them, and a sheet rear regulating means disposed to the tray means for regulating the positions of the sheets from the sheet outlet at the sheet rear ends. The sheet front end regulating means comprises ( | 07-16-2009 |
20090168127 | Document Data Capturing Device - A document data capturing device includes a sheet supply tray for carrying documents, a sheet discharge tray located below the sheet supply tray, and a document conveying mechanism including a conveying path along which documents are guided from the sheet supply tray to the sheet discharge tray. The document data capturing device includes a first data-capturing unit and a second data-capturing unit which scan respective sides of a document conveyed by the document conveying mechanism. The first data-capturing unit and the second data-capturing unit are each configured with a reduction-optics scanning mechanism. The conveying path along which a document to be scanned by the first and second scanning mechanisms is conveyed is formed to surround the second reduction-optics data-capturing unit. Thus, the device can be made compact. | 07-02-2009 |
20090148215 | Finisher, Bookbinder, and Imaging System - Single perforating unit is enabled to perforate for file binders and to cut milling grooves, while with a simple structure file-binder storage and booklet-binding can be carried out reliably. Configurations include: a convey-in path for sequentially transferring sheets; a stacker for collating into bundles sheets from the convey-in path; and an adhesive-layer applicator for adding an adhesive layer to the spine-closure edge of sheet bundles from the stacker. A perforating unit is provided in along the convey-in path, and a control unit for controlling position and/or number of perforations made by the perforating unit is provided with (1) a first operation mode in which it effects the punching of a predetermined number of holes in the edge of sheets, and (2) a second operation mode in which it effects the formation of a predetermined number of crenulated grooves in the edge of sheets. | 06-11-2009 |
20090133619 | Adhesive Applicator and Bookbinder in Bookbinding Apparatus, and Image-Forming System Associated Therewith - Bookbinding-unit adhesive application device that does not interrupt the unit to replenish adhesive when consecutively applying adhesive to sheet bundles, and can shorten the time the system is interrupted. An adhesive storage container ( | 05-28-2009 |
20090116891 | Printing apparatus and printing method - A printing apparatus includes a takeup reel driving motor which, after printing, takes up an ink ribbon to eliminate a slack in the ink ribbon. The printing apparatus includes a control device for comparing a distance (a) over which the ink ribbon R is taken up to eliminate the slack in the ink ribbon R with a distance (b) from a print end position to a print start position for a next color. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115832 | Printing apparatus and printing method - A printing apparatus includes a takeup reel driving motor which, after printing, takes up an ink ribbon to eliminate a slack in the ink ribbon. The printing apparatus includes a control device for comparing a distance (a) over which the ink ribbon R is taken up to eliminate the slack in the ink ribbon R with a distance (b) from a print end position to a print start position for a next color. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115831 | Method of controlling electric conduction through thermal heat and thermal printer - A thermal printer detects an environmental temperature, and directly or indirectly detects a change in tension of an ink ribbon R. A correction value is read or calculated according to at least one of the detected environmental temperature and the detected change in the tension of the ink ribbon R. Thermal energy of each heating element in the thermal head is controlled based on the correction value so as to adjustably increase or reduce number of print lines on a print medium in a sub-scanning direction. | 05-07-2009 |
20090109504 | Image-Capturing Apparatus and Image-Capturing System - The present invention prevents units from becoming unbalanced and falling over when an image-capturing unit is opened over an image-forming unit when an image-forming unit, image-capturing unit and document-feeding unit are stacked over each other in order. The image-capturing unit is rotatably linked to the top of the image-forming unit by a first hinge means, and the document-feeding unit having document-feeding means is rotatably linked to the top of the image-capturing unit by second hinge means. Locking means for checking rotation (opening operation of the document-feeding unit) of the second hinge means is disposed on an opposite side of the second hinge means sandwiching the document-feeding means. The locking means is composed to check the opening operation of the second hinge means when the first hinge means is opened. | 04-30-2009 |
20090097875 | SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - In one embodiment of the present invention, a sheet post-processing apparatus includes an ejection path that successively feed sheets each with an image found thereon from an ejection outlet. A processing tray is disposed under the ejection outlet to temporarily store sheets fed from the ejection path. A port processing unit performs post processing such as binding and punching. The post processing unit is located under the ejection path and is provided with a cooling fan that sends air toward the post processing unit. | 04-16-2009 |
20090091807 | Image-Capturing Apparatus - Image-capturing apparatus meeting demands for high-image resolution and high-speed data capture during both still- and moving-document data-capture modes. Includes: a reading unit having first and second linear photoreceptors arrayed along an data capture sub-scanning direction, a delay circuit delaying output from the first photoreceptor, and an adding circuit adding delayed first-photoreceptor output to second-photoreceptor output; and a scanning unit illuminating from underneath the platen, and shiftable along it to guide linear reflected light from a document to the first and second photoreceptors. During a moving-document data-capture mode, the scanning unit is disposed in a data-capture position established at one edge of the platen to scan a document being conveyed, and when in a still-original data-capture mode, it is shifted from along the platen's opposite edge toward the one edge thereof to scan a stationary document. | 04-09-2009 |
20090086283 | Image reading apparatus and image reading system - An image reading apparatus includes a housing; image reading device for reading an image from a document being conveyed, the image reading device being located in the housing; a platen located in the housing and including a transparent member for reading the image of the document; and a scoop-up device situated at a downstream of the platen in parallel therewith to scoop up the document. The scoop-up device includes a dust collecting space for collecting dust entering the apparatus through a gap between the platen and the scoop-up member, the dust collecting space having a plate member dividing the dust collecting space into an upper dust collecting space and a lower dust collecting space; and a platen joint portion forming a part of the dust collecting space and positioned below the platen. A top surface of the platen joint portion detachably contacts a bottom surface of the platen. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085271 | Bookmaking apparatus - A bookmaking apparatus includes: a first path for horizontally conveying a sheet bundle; a second path for vertically conveying a cover sheet; a joining stage for joining the cover sheet and sheet bundle; a gripping conveyance device at an upstream side of the joining stage for gripping and conveying the sheet bundle along the first path; and a folding conveyance device arranged at a downstream side of the joining stage for folding and conveying out the cover sheet and sheet bundle. The gripping conveyance device includes opening and closing clamping members for gripping the sheet bundle and clamping control device for opening and closing the clamping members. The clamping control device operates to vary a gripping position of the sheet bundle by the clamping members when joining the sheet bundle to the cover sheet at the joining stage and when conveying the joined sheet bundle to the folding conveyance device. | 04-02-2009 |
20090081003 | Bookbinding Unit - Faulty bookbinding due to sheet-size, etc. setting errors when bundle-collated inner-leaf sheets and coversheets they are bound with are placed in respective trays is stopped before it occurs. In an inner-leaf tray and a coversheet tray: (1) sheet sensors are disposed, and when both detect sheet presence, the inner-leaf sheets are transported to an adhesive-application location, and (2) sheet-side detection sensors or (3) sheet length and width detection sensors are disposed, and in either case when from the detection information predetermined encased booklet formation is impossible, device startup is halted. Width detectors are disposed in the inner-leaf and coversheet trays for detecting opposing sides of sheets stacked therein, and a controller is configured to convey into the device interior inner-leaf sheets from the inner-leaf tray when predetermined encased booklet formation is possible with the inner-leaf sheets and coversheets. | 03-26-2009 |
20090081001 | Bookbinding Unit - Bookbinding unit eliminating the necessity of a user, in placing collated inner leaves onto a tray, pre-measuring the bundle thickness, and the danger of fingers getting pinched during the placement. Furnished with: inner-leaf tray; coversheet tray; gripping conveyor gripping and transporting bundles of leaf-tray sheets; coversheet conveyor feeding coversheet-tray covers and placing them in a binding location; adhesive applicator applying adhesive to bundle spine-portion endfaces; cover binder binding bundles and covers together; and controller encasing bundles in covers to form booklets. A first detector, in the inner-leaf tray, detects thickness of bundles therein, and a second detector, in the gripping conveyor, detects thickness of the gripped bundles. The controller prohibits the gripping conveyor from conveying inner leaves out from the inner-leaf tray when the thickness of a sheet bundle detected by the first detector is more than a predetermined thickness. | 03-26-2009 |
20090081000 | Bookbinding Unit - Bookbinding unit enabling, in encasing inner-leaf sheets in coversheets to form booklets, secure book-forming binding regardless of whether the inner-leaf sheets constitute a simple-sheet bundle or are made up of a plurality of folded-over signature sheets. Constituent components are: inner-leaf sheet tray; coversheet tray; bookbinding process path for guiding sheets from the inner-leaf sheet tray to successive adhesive-application and cover-binding locations; inner-leaf conveyor; coversheet conveyor for conveying coversheets to the cover-binding location; bundle-spine adhesive applicator in the adhesive-application location; and cover binder in the cover-binding location. Components' controller is configured to receive input as to whether inner-sheet-bundle makeup includes saddle-stitch sheets or is of simple sheets only, and, based on the bundle makeup information, varies its control of at least one of the coversheet conveyor, adhesive applicator, and cover binder. | 03-26-2009 |
20090067951 | Bookbinding Unit, Bookbinding Method and Image-Forming System - Affords a bookbinding method and bookbinding unit that attach the bookmarker string when binding inner-bound sheets coated with adhesive on the spine portion to the spine portion of the coversheet. Apply adhesive to a spine portion of inner-bound sheets collated and stacked into a bundle, join that sheet bundle to a spine portion of a coversheet, and fold the coversheet over the sheet bundle. At that time, the bookmarker string is attached to the booklet simultaneously by joining the sheet bundle to the coversheet with the bookmarker string placed over the inside spine portion of the coversheet. | 03-12-2009 |
20090039590 | Sheet Stacker and Finisher Furnished with the Same - Affords sheet stacking device that, in stacking sheets onto a loading tray, enables stacking of the sheets always in the correct posture regardless of the nature of the sheets' surface material. The sheet stacking device includes a tray unit located downstream of a sheet discharging port, a sheet-end regulating member provided on the tray unit, a conveying unit for transporting sheets carried out onto the tray unit though the sheet discharging port, toward the sheet-end regulating member, and a conveyance controller for controlling the conveying unit. In conveying toward the sheet-end regulating member a sheet having been carried onto the tray unit, the conveyance controller varies the running time during which the conveying unit applies conveyance force to the sheet, in accordance with the material nature of the sheet surface. | 02-12-2009 |
20090035095 | Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Bookbinding unit to avert sheets coming loose and other problems that, due to adhesive leakage in coating an adhesive onto a sheaf and pasting on a cover sheet, lead to poor binding. Provided with unit housing, sheaf retainer for retaining in an adhesive-application position sheets collated into book blocks, adhesive container for storing hot-melt adhesive, heater built-in to the adhesive container for melting the adhesive at a predetermined temperature, temperature controller for controlling the heater, applicator for applying adhesive to sheaves, and cover binder disposed downstream of the adhesive-application location for binding sheaves coated with adhesive together with cover sheets. The controller has a first sensor for detecting the adhesive temperature the adhesive container, and a second sensor for detecting ambient temperature inside the unit housing, and controls the heating temperature of the heater according to the temperatures detected by the first and second sensors. | 02-05-2009 |
20090035093 | Bookbinding Method, and Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Bookbinding unit that in binding an inner-leave sheet bundle together with a cover enables accurate binding of the cover onto the bundle's spine and meanwhile forms folding scores in the cover flaps. Furnished with: a stacking tray unit; a process path for sequentially transporting bundles from the tray unit into adhesive-application and cover-binding locations; an adhesive application unit, disposed in the adhesive-application location, that applies adhesive to bundles from the tray unit; a cover-supply unit that supplies covers to the cover-binding location; and a cover-binding unit, disposed in the cover-binding location, that binds sheet bundles from the adhesive-application location together with covers. The cover-binding unit has a shoulder-pressing unit that forms spine creases in the spine portion of the covers, and a flap-pressing unit that forms folds in the spine-creased sides of the covers. | 02-05-2009 |
20090035016 | Bookbinding Method and Bookbinding Unit, and Image-Forming System - Image-forming system and bookbinding method, for collating and stacking sheets and binding together their spine-portion edges, that allows easy insertion of foldout leaves in the course of the bookbinding processes. Bookbinding-finishing method for collating printed sheets into bundles and binding together the spine-portion edges includes: an image-forming step of sequentially forming images on a plurality of sheets, based on predetermined image data; a fold-process step of folding the printed sheets from the image-forming step; a stacking step of collating into bundles the printed sheets from the image-forming step and/or the sheets folded in the fold-process step; a bookbinding step of binding together the spine-portion edges of the sheet bundles collated in the stacking step; and a trim-finishing step of trimming true at least the fore-edge of the sheet bundles bound in the bookbinding step. | 02-05-2009 |
20090016850 | Bookbinding Unit and Image-Forming System - Bookbinding unit that, in feeding cover sheets to a predetermined cover-fitting position, is able to feed various sheets/leaves, yet without defacing of or scratch marks in the cover sheets, nor press marks during cover formation, occurring. Provided are an incoming sheet conveyance path for sequentially bringing in printed sheets; a stacking tray unit for stacking and collating into bundles sheets from the conveyance path; a bookbinding process path that transports sheet bundles from the stacking tray unit to a predetermined cover-binding position; and a cover feed path for feeding cover sheets to the cover-binding position. A protective-sheet storage tray for supplying jacketing sheets is annexed to the cover feed path, and a conveyance unit that overlays fed cover sheets with jacketing sheets from their storage tray and transports the jacketed cover sheets to the cover-sheet binding position is disposed in the cover feed path. | 01-15-2009 |
20090003915 | Ribbon spool, ribbon cassette, and printing apparatus - A ribbon spool is detachably attached to a printing apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium by using an ink ribbon. The printing apparatus has an engaging member including an engaging convex portion for engaging the ribbon spool. The ribbon spool includes a ribbon retaining portion for retaining the ink ribbon, and an engaging portion provided at one lateral side end of the ribbon spool for engaging the engaging convex portion and having a plurality of inclined grooves. The grooves have a different inclination angle from that of a lateral side face of the engaging convex portion. At least one of the grooves of the engaging portion has a point contact with the engaging convex portion at two points to engage the engaging convex portion. | 01-01-2009 |
20080316628 | Density filter, method of forming the density filter and apparatus thereof - A film coating method enables, when forming film layers in response to optical characteristics on a substrate, to coat gradation range layers of decreasing thickness without distributions, and to coat films on a plurality of substrates at the same time. The gradation range layer is formed by sputtering evaporation targets of dielectric substances with an introduction gas, followed by forming the films with compounds generated by applying a reactive gas to the films. | 12-25-2008 |
20080303201 | BOOKBINDING APPARATUS, BOOKBINDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a bookbinding apparatus, an adhesive applying portion applies an adhesive to an end face of a sheet bundle allowed to stand in the substantially vertical direction, a storage portion that gathers and stores the sheet bundle which is applied with the adhesive and bound in the adhesive applying portion while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction, transport means for conveying the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction from the adhesive applying portion to the storage portion along a substantially vertical transport path, and a cutting portion which is provided on the transport path between the adhesive applying portion and the storage portion, and which cuts an end face of the sheet bundle while letting the sheet bundle stand in the substantially vertical direction. | 12-11-2008 |
20080286026 | Printer cartridge, cartridge installation detection method and printer apparatus - A cartridge detachably attached to a printer apparatus includes a casing, an ink ribbon provided in the casing, a supply spool provided in the casing for supplying the ink ribbon, and a take-up spool provided in the casing for retrieving the ink ribbon. The printer apparatus includes a locking member rotatably supported on the printer apparatus and locking the cartridge to the printer apparatus, a detection device for detecting an installation of the cartridge by detecting a locked state of the locking member, a locking portion for locking the locking member when the cartridge is installed in the printer apparatus, and a guide forcefully and rotatingly displacing the locking member from a locking position when the cartridge is pulled out from the printer apparatus. | 11-20-2008 |
20080265484 | Sheet post processing apparatus and image forming system - A sheet post processing apparatus of compact shape with good alignment can be obtained by providing an accumulation tray for aligning and accumulating sheets successively delivered, a post processing unit for performing a post process such as binding to a sheet stack accumulated on the accumulation tray, and a grip unit for gripping the post processed sheet stack. The post processing unit enables the accumulation tray to reciprocate in a direction transverse to a discharging direction of a sheet discharge tray. The grip unit has a grip part for gripping the sheet stack, a guide part for reciprocally guiding the grip part back and forth in the sheet discharging direction. The grip part is separable from the guide part during a movement of the post processing unit. | 10-30-2008 |
20080246208 | Document feeding device and document reading apparatus - A document feeding device includes an upstream guide member that forms an upstream side of a document conveying path along which a document is guided from a sheet feeding tray to a platen, and a downstream guide member located between the upstream guide member and the platen. The document feeding device has a guide moving mechanism that slidably moves the downstream guide member away from an opposite guide member located opposite the downstream guide member upon a pivoting operation of the upstream guide member. Consequently, even if the document conveyed toward the platen is, for example, inappropriately conveyed to cause jamming, the document can be easily removed without being damaged. | 10-09-2008 |
20080237962 | Bookbinding Apparatus and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Imaging-system bookbinding apparatus avoids cutting any folded sheets mixed into booklets it trims. Furnished with: an imaging unit; a sheet-folding unit that folds imaging-unit sheets; a stacking unit that stacks sheets from the sheet-folding or image-forming units; a cover-sheet binding unit that encases stacking-unit sheet bundles with, and binds them into, cover sheets; a trimming unit that trims true the bundle fore-edge; and a fold-position computing unit that determines where a sheet is pleated by the sheet-folding unit. The sheet-folding unit has a sheet conveyance path along which folded sheets are transported elsewhere than the stacking unit, while the fold-position computing unit in a first control mode transports to the stacking unit sheets folded over by the sheet-folding unit, and in a second control mode transports them from the sheet conveyance path elsewhere than the stacking unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080211158 | Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming system comprising the same - A post-processing apparatus includes a sheet carry-in path along which sheets from a carry-in port are fed through a sheet discharging port to a downstream post-processing position, and a collecting guide, for setting and collecting the sheets into a bunch. The collecting guide is located downstream of the sheet discharging port with a difference in level between the sheet discharging port and the collecting guide, is provided. A post-processing apparatus is provided for executing a stapling process and/or a folding process on the sheet bunch collected on the collecting guide. A sheet leading end regulating device is provided for regulating a position of leading ends of the sheets collected on the collecting guide device. The sheet leading end regulating device is movable according to a sheet size so that trailing ends of the sheet ends are placed at a predetermined position below the sheet discharging port. | 09-04-2008 |