Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Shigeyuki Itoh

Yusuke Tanaka

Ken Sawada

Atsushi Kuriyama

Yuuki Nakagawa

Takuya Fukuhara

Kentaroh Fukami

Akikazu Iwata

Ikumi Takashima

Ryoh Suzuki

Yasuo Ohba

Yiru Chen

A sheet processing apparatus includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate facing with a given space in a thickness direction and having second and third openings, a sheet conveyance passage between the first and second guide plates, and a sheet conveyor including a drive source, a drive roller, a first driven roller, and a second driven roller. The drive roller protrudes from the first guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the first opening. The first driven roller faces the drive roller and protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the second opening. The second driven roller protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the third opening. The second driven roller is disposed at a position shifted from the drive roller in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction and the thickness direction.

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

A sheet alignment apparatus includes a sheet leading-end aligning device, a sheet side-end aligning device. The sheet leading-end aligning device is configured to align a leading end of a sheet bundle in a sheet conveyance direction. The sheet side-end aligning device is configured to align a side end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveyance direction and move the sheet bundle to a predetermined position. The sheet leading-end aligning device is configured to maintain contact with the leading end of the sheet bundle when the sheet leading-end aligning device retracts from a movement path of the sheet side-end aligning device along which the sheet side-end aligning device moves the sheet bundle to the predetermined position.

Sheet alignment apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and image forming system

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shigeyuki Itoh