Konica Corporation

Tadahiro Takahashi

Hirohiko Okabe

Masato Hattori

Masaru Ohtsuka

Minoru Kawano

Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya

Kohji Yoshie

Toshitaka Matsumoto

Makoto Tamura

Hirotaka Kataoka

Shinji Yashiro

A sheet cutter for finishing a booklet by cutting, with a cutter, edges of a bundle of sheets folded double, wherein it is possible to load booklets on a booklet stand of a booklet storing section that stores a plurality of booklets which have been subjected to cutting processing, by overlapping sheet faces, with a folded portion of each booklet facing upward.

Sheet cutting device and image forming apparatus equipped therewith

The present invention relates to a sheet finisher, which receives sheets from an image forming apparatus, such as an electro-photographic copying machine, a printer, a facsimile, etc., to align and bind the sheets. There is described a sheet finisher which includes a conveyance roller pair to convey the sheets, an intermediate stacker to stack the sheets, an aligning device to align the sheets stacked on the intermediate stacker, a binder to bind the sheets stacked and aligned on the intermediate stacker, an ejector to convey and eject the sheets bound by the binder, a driver to drive the aligning device, a controller to control the driver and an overlapped sheets conveying device to grip and convey two sheets. In the sheet finisher, the controller controls the driver in a manner such that the aligning device aligns an initial one sheet stacked on the intermediate stacker under a first aligning condition, while the aligning device aligns two overlapped sheets under a second aligning condition.

Sheet finisher, image forming apparatus, and sheet conveyance apparatus

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Tadahiro Takahashi