Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kikuo Mizutani

Yoshiaki Sugizaki

Ken Iguchi

Hiroyuki Taki

Takahiro Kawaguchi

Isao Yahata

Hidetoshi Yokochi

Hiroyuki Tsuchihashi

Chiaki Iizuka

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Toshiaki Oshiro

Hiroyuki Hazu

Yuichi Saito

Yoichi Yamaguchi

Jun Ishii

Takamitsu Sunaoshi

Shunsuke Hattori

Takahiro Kokubo

Tomomi Iijima

Misato Ishikawa

Hiroyuki Taguchi

Yasunobu Terao

Mikio Yamamoto

Naofumi Soga

Katsutoshi Sato

Yoici Yamaguchi

Hiroyuki Tsuchihasi

Chiaki Ilzuka

A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a discharge port, a tray, an elevation unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The conveyance unit conveys a print medium supplied from an image forming apparatus. The discharge port discharges the print medium conveyed by the conveyance unit. The tray is stacked with the print medium discharged from the discharge port and can be raised and lowered in a vertical direction. The elevation unit raises and lower the tray in the vertical direction. The detection unit detects a top surface of an uppermost print medium of one or more sheets of print media stacked on the tray. The control unit controls the conveyance unit and the elevation unit and hold a relative position of the top surface with respect to the discharge port if the print medium is discharged from the discharge port at a first position. The control unit causes the conveyance unit to convey the print medium at a first speed if a discharge time from a first timing indicating the timing relating to discharge of the print medium from the discharge port to a second timing indicating the timing when the print medium is detected by the detection unit is a first time and causes the conveyance unit to convey the print medium at a second speed different from the first speed if the discharge time is a second time.

Post-processing apparatus

A card separation apparatus includes a movable tray having a surface onto which a sheet is conveyed after a card has been separated from the sheet, and a card separation unit mounted on the surface for movement with the movable tray, the card separation unit having an opening through which the sheet is conveyed, and a controller configured to send an instruction to the movable tray to be moved at a predetermined timing after a leading edge of the sheet to which the card is attached enters the opening, so as to cause the sheet to be initially separated from the card.

Card separation apparatus and card separation method

A post-processing apparatus is connected to an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet. The post-processing apparatus includes a post-processor, a sensor, and a controller. The post-processor performs post-processing on the sheet. The sensor is provided in a space where the post-processor operates and provides an output based on a presence of a foreign substance in the space. The controller acquires a first output value from the sensor prior to the image forming apparatus forming the image on the sheet, acquires a second output value from the sensor after the image forming apparatus forms the image on the sheet and before the post-processor performs the post-processing on the sheet, and determines whether or not the foreign substance is present in the space based on the first output value and the second output value.

Post-processing apparatus and control method

A sheet binding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tape holding section and a guide section. The tape holding section holds a tape in at least two parts. The guide section guides a sheet bundle to between the two parts of the tape. The tape holding section bends and holds the tape to be convex to a conveying direction downstream side of the sheet bundle.

Sheet binding apparatus and image forming system

A sheet binding device includes a sheet shifting unit, a tape cutter, and a tape attachment unit. The sheet shifting unit has a guide and is configured to stack multiple sheets on the guide with edge portions that are shifted from each other to form a sheet bundle. The tape cutter cuts tape with a target length that is varied in accordance with a thickness of the sheet bundle. The tape attachment unit is configured to attach the cut tape having the target length to an edge portion of the sheet bundle.

Sheet binding device and sheet binding method

According to one embodiment, a label peeling device includes a tray, a pressing unit, and a control unit. The tray is configured to support a label sheet thereon. The pressing unit is configured to be driven in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label sheet. The control unit is configured to drive the pressing unit toward a central portion of the label sheet supported on the tray. The control unit performs peeling control to peel a liner sheet and a label body of the label sheet from each other by pressing an edge of the label sheet and thereby curving the label sheet.

Label peeling device

According to one embodiment, a sheet binding apparatus includes a first roller, a second roller, and a nip-pressure adjusting section. The first roller attaches a tape to an edge portion of a sheet bundle. The second roller is opposed to the first roller in the sheet bundle thickness direction. The nip-pressure adjusting section is capable of adjusting, on the basis of the position of an edge portion leading end of the sheet bundle, a pressing force of a nip formed by the first roller and the second roller. Before the sheet bundle is inserted between the first roller and the second roller, an interval between the first roller and the second roller is equal to or smaller than the thickness of the sheet bundle.

According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a first mounting part, a second mounting part, and a mounting adjustment part. The first mounting part mounts a tape on an edge part of a sheet bundle. The second mounting part is opposite to the first mounting part in a sheet bundle thickness direction. The mounting adjustment part is capable of adjusting a mounting gap between the first mounting part and the second mounting part based upon a thickness of the sheet bundle. The mounting gap is equal to or smaller than the thickness of the sheet bundle before the sheet bundle is inserted between the first mounting part and the second mounting part.

Sheet binding device and image forming system

A binding mechanism has a base, a feeder, a tape cutting unit, a tape holding unit and a tape support driving unit. The feeder is supported by the base. The feeder feeds an adhesive tape. The tape cutting unit is supported by the base. The tape cutting unit cuts the fed adhesive tape. The tape holding unit can hold the fed adhesive tape. The tape support units are installed as a pair. The tape support driving unit drives the pair of tape support units such that the pair of tape support units hold the fed adhesive tape simultaneously.

Binding mechanism and binding unit

A post-processing apparatus includes a sheet discharge tray to which a sheet or a sheet bundle is discharged, and a shift mechanism configured to shift a discharge position of the sheet or the sheet bundle discharged to the sheet discharge tray from a reference position. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to control the shift mechanism to divide the sheet or the sheet bundle in a first direction in a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet or the sheet bundle and a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Post-processing apparatus, image forming system and control method

According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a detector, a heater, and a controller. The detector detects an image formed on a sheet. The heater applies a predetermined heat amount onto the sheet to carry out erasing processing on the sheet. The controller controls, based on a detection result of the detector, the number of times the erasing processing is to be carried out on the sheet and a heat amount to be applied onto the sheet in the erasing processing.

Image processing apparatus and image processing method

According to one embodiment, a sheet binding device includes a tape support base, a tape holder, and a first displacement mechanism. The tape support base supports a tape. The tape holder is movable in a first direction. The first displacement mechanism displaces the tape holder from a first position that is a position away from the tape to a second position at which the tape holder is capable of coming into contact with the tape when the tape holder moves toward the tape support base and receives the tape.

Sheet binding device, sheet post-processing device, and image forming apparatus

An image erasing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a sheet supply portion that supplies a sheet and an ejector. A first conveying path conveys the sheet from the sheet supply portion toward the ejector. A reader arranged on the first conveying path reads an image on the sheet. A second conveying path branches from the first conveying path at a downstream of the reader on the first conveying path and merges with the first conveying path at an upstream of the reader on the first conveying path. An erasing unit is arranged on the second conveying path. A conveying path changing portion is arranged at a branching portion. An operating portion receives a setup of the processing to the sheet. A controller changes a conveying path of the sheet in accordance with the setup received by the operating portion before the sheet is supplied from the sheet supply portion.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Kikuo Mizutani