Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ueno Shinichi

Masanobu Kimata

Yoshihide Sugiyama

Minoru Hattori

Ikumi Takashima

Akihiro Tsuno

Koji Furuta

Shigeru Mizuno

Toru Horio

Nakayama Naoya

Miyuki Ito

A sheet medium adjustment apparatus, e.g., in an image forming system, includes: an ejector to eject a conveyed sheet; a stacking device to stack each sheet ejected from the sheet ejector into a stack on a tray; a moving device to shift the stacking device in a movement direction perpendicular to a sheet-ejecting direction; a sheet aligning member to align ends of the sheets in the stack that are parallel to the sheet-ejecting direction; a stepping motor to move the sheet aligning member; and an evacuation device to evacuate the aligning member by an amount representing an evacuation displacement in the movement direction at a timing of aligning the sheet, the evacuation displacement being determined adaptively according to at least one of an attribute of a given sheet in the stack, an attribute of the stack as a whole and an attribute of the tray.

Sheet medium adjustment apparatus and image formation system capable of sorting sheet media

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Ueno Shinichi