Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Optrex Corporation

Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Kenichi Hayashi

Tomokazu Nakamura

Yusuke Obuchi

Hideki Kushida

Daisaku Kamiya

Kiyoshi Okamoto

Atsuteru Oikawa

Hitoshi Kato

Takayuki Fujii

Norifumi Miyake

Hitoshi Fujimoto

Toshimasa Suzuki

Akito Sekigawa

Kazuhisa Okuda

Michiaki Endo

Mamoru Nagano

Hidehiko Morinaga

Shigeki Koyama

Yoshiko Kobari

Ayako Fujii

Masaaki Tamura

Yoshikazu Sawada

Yuichi Yamamoto

Yuji Yamanaka

Rikiya Takemasa

Masao Ozeki

Toshiyuki Iwata

Yoshiyuki Nakajima

Hiroyuki Sekine

Naoto Watanabe

Takashi Shimada

Hideto Abe

Hajime Sekiguchi

Naoto Tokuma

Keiko Fujita

Takashi Sugiura

Ryuichi Kojima

Kunio Seto

Kenichi Tamura

Tokihito Sawada

Takashi Yuchi

Chizuko Yamamoto

An image reading apparatus includes a first image reading unit, a second image reading unit provided on a side opposite from the first image reading unit with respect to a sheet feeding passage, a first guiding member, a second guiding member, a first unit holding the first image reading unit and the second guiding member, and a second unit holding the second image reading unit and the first guiding member. One of the first unit and the second unit is movable relative to the other unit so as to open the sheet feeding passage.

Image reading apparatus

A supporting frame of a sheet feeding device includes a bottom plate, a first side plate fixed to the bottom plate, and a second side plate fixed to the bottom plate. The first side plate includes a supporting portion, a first bent and erected portion, and a second bent and erected portion. The supporting portion includes a swing center portion having a swing center of the first side plate when the first side plate is positionally adjusted relative to the second side plate. In a direction in which a bending edge line formed between the supporting portion and the first bent and erected portion extends, the swing center portion projects downward than a lower end portion of the first bent and erected portion and a lower end portion of the second bent and erected portion are and contacts the bottom plate.

Supporting frame of sheet feeding device and sheet feeding device including the supporting frame

A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a creasing unit configured to form a first crease and a second crease different from the first crease on the sheet, and a detection unit configured to detect a direction of the first crease. When the second crease is to be formed after the formation of the first crease by the creasing unit, a direction of the second crease with respect to a widthwise direction of the sheet is controlled based on a detection result of the detection unit.

Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and sheet processing method

A sheet processing apparatus comprising: a scoring unit which scores a sheet; a folding unit which folds a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets; a pressing unit which presses a folded part of the sheet bundle folded by the folding unit; and a controller which determines, based on information on the sheet bundle, whether the scoring unit scores the sheet included in the sheet bundle to be folded and whether the pressing unit presses the folded part of the sheet bundle.

Sheet processing apparatus

If a damper or a magnetic catch is used to make a guide member self-holdable in an opened state, a force is required for holding the weight of the guide member in the opened state. This increases an operation force for closing the guide member and degrades the operability. In contrast, if a mechanical holding mechanism without using the damper is employed, the hold may be disengaged without intention of a user. A sheet conveyance device includes an upper conveyance guide for guiding a conveyed sheet and a holding portion for holding the upper conveyance guide in an opened position with respect to a lower conveyance guide opposed thereto, wherein the upper conveyance guide includes an operation portion for disengaging engagement between the upper conveyance guide and the holding portion, and the holding portion includes an operation portion for disengaging engagement between the upper conveyance guide and the holding portion.

Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus

A sheet processing apparatus includes a first stacking portion on which a sheet conveyed by a conveying portion is stacked, a binding portion which forms, in a sheet bundle stacked on the first stacking portion, a tongue cut out from the sheet, with a part of the tongue attached to the sheet, and a slit, and which binds the sheet bundle by inserting a tip of the tongue of the sheet bundle in the slit of the sheet bundle, and a second stacking portion on which the sheet bundle bound by the binding portion is stacked. In the sheet processing apparatus, a plurality of recessed parts is formed on a guide face of the binding portion, the recessed parts extending in different directions from each other.

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet transport apparatus includes a transport guide that is included in a first transport path along which a sheet is to be transported and a flapper that selectively guides the sheet, which is transported by passing through the first transport path, to a second transport path and a third transport path. The transport guide has an air-blowing hole that is positioned further upstream than the flapper in a transport direction of the sheet. The sheet transport apparatus further includes an air-blowing fan that blows air to the flapper from outside the first transport path via the air-blowing hole.

Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet processing apparatus includes: a conveying roller that conveys a sheet; a lateral registration skew correcting unit that corrects a position in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction, of the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller; and a sheet processing portion that performs processing on the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller. A plurality of types of sheet processing portions is replaceable, and the sheet processing apparatus includes a puncher controller that changes an operation of the lateral registration skew correcting unit according to the type of the sheet processing portion.

A driving roller for conveying a sheet to a sheet punching unit, and a sheet inverting unit including a driving roll capable of being driven to rotate by the driving roller are provided between a branching point, at which a return path of a sheet conveying path is branched, and a sheet punching unit. When a subsequent sheet for which a punching process is performed next reaches the sheet inverting unit, the sheet to which the punching process has been performed by the sheet punching unit is conveyed to the return path by the driving roll while making the sheet pass by a subsequent sheet conveyed to the sheet punching unit by the driving roller.

Sheet processing device and image forming system

It is characterized in that there is provided a liquid crystal panel including a pair of transparent substrates having electrodes for liquid crystal display disposed thereon, respectively, the electrodes for liquid crystal display being made of a transparent conductive film and serving as electrodes for liquid crystal display, and a liquid crystal sandwiched between the pair of transparent substrates; and that one of the pair of transparent substrates has an electrode for a projection capacitive sensor disposed on a side thereof with the electrode for liquid crystal display disposed thereon, the electrode for a projection capacitive sensor being made of the same conductive film as the electrode for liquid crystal display and serving as an electrode for a projection capacitive sensor.

Input-function integrated liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same

A cutting apparatus configured to cut a sheet or a sheet bundle includes a cutting blade whose blade surface has a plurality of grooves. In the cutting apparatus, a scraping member enters the grooves provided on the blade surface to scrape off cutting scraps remaining after a cutting operation. Accordingly, the cutting apparatus can scrape off cutting scraps from the cutting blade even if the adhesive force of the cutting scraps is great.

Cutting apparatus and image forming apparatus

A finisherincludes a pair of bundle discharge rollers, a lower stack tray, and a width-direction aligning portion. The width-direction aligning portion includes a pair of aligning membersand a driving motor. The aligning member includes a pair of first aligning membersthat is rotatably supported while being movable in the sheet width direction orthogonal to the discharge direction and a pair of second aligning members. The driving motor rotates the pair of first aligning members and moves the pair of first aligning members in the width direction. When the pair of first aligning members rotates and one of the pair of second aligning members abuts on the sheet, the pair of second aligning members forms opposite surfaces in which the sheet can be aligned in the width direction, and the pair of first aligning members align the sheet by the opposite surfaces.

Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet cutting apparatus having a movable blade which lowers toward a sheet from above to cut the sheet; and a pushing member which lowers together with the movable blade to push a cut piece of the sheet cut by the movable blade. The pushing member has a plurality of pushing surfaces which are arranged along the tip of the movable blade at a distance from each other, and the plurality of pushing surfaces are in contact with the movable blade and are located upstream from a tip of the movable blade in a moving direction of the movable blade cutting the sheet.

Sheet cutting apparatus and image forming apparatus

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Kiyoshi Watanabe