Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Tanabe Seiyaku Company, Limited

Yuuki Nakagawa

Kentaroh Fukami

Yusuke Tanaka

Atsushi Kuriyama

Takuya Fukuhara

Ryoh Suzuki

Akikazu Iwata

Takato Mochizuki

Yasuo Ohba

Ken Sawada

Tamio Hara

Tomohiro Furuhashi

Tomomichi Hoshino

Michitaka Suzuki

Nobuo Matsui

Hiroyuki Adachi

Hiroki Yoshida

Akira Mitani

Tomio Yagihara

Masao Yamaguchi

Tadashi Sugiura

Hiroyuki Yamanaka

Takeshi Hirabayashi

Hiroshi Sano

Takahiro Ando

Masami Hatano

Shigemi Suga

Daishi Watanabe

Shigeyuki Itoh

Kiyohito Imai

Yiru Chen

Toshihisa Hioki

Hiroshi Hamamura

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 processing apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, a sheet circulation passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and circuitry. In the sheet circulation passage, a sheet is circulated to be overlaid with a following sheet in the sheet conveyance passage. The circuitry circulates the sheet in the sheet circulation passage to overlay the sheet with the following sheet conveyed after the sheet in the first sheet conveyance passage, at an upstream position of the first sheet conveyance passage, and adjusts a sheet conveyance speed of the third conveyor to circulate the sheet, based on a reduction amount that is obtained when a preceding amount of a leading end of the following sheet with respect to a leading end of the sheet is reduced while the following sheet is temporarily stopped due to a temporary stop of the first conveyor.

A post-processing apparatus includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and a conveyance passage corrector. The first conveyor conveys a sheet conveyed along a first conveyance passage downstream from the first conveyor. The second conveyor conveys the sheet along a second conveyance passage. The third conveyor conveys the sheet along a third conveyance passage. The conveyance passage corrector includes a retracting mechanism to retract from a joining position at which the third conveyance passage joins to the first conveyance passage and turns a conveyance direction of the sheet toward the first conveyor when the sheet enters from the third conveyance passage to the first conveyance passage.

Image forming apparatus

A post-processing device () includes a circulation conveyance path, a zeroth conveyer (R), and a controller (). The circulation conveyance path includes a first conveyance path (W), a second conveyance path (W), a third conveyance path (W), a first conveyer (R), a second conveyer (R), and a third conveyer (R). The first and second conveyers convey a preceding sheet (P) along the first and second conveyance paths. The third conveyer conveys it from the third conveyance path to the first conveyance path. The zeroth conveyer conveys a following sheet (P) toward the first conveyer. The controller controls the third conveyer to stop the preceding sheet, subsequently controls the zeroth conveyer and the third conveyer to overlay the preceding sheet with the following sheet to form a sheet bundle (Q) having a shift amount (G) between a leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet and strike the leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet against the first conveyer.

Post-processing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

A sheet processing device includes a first conveyance passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a folder, a second conveyance passage, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to (1) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet nipping the sheet to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (2) guide the warped sheet to form a first fold on the sheet by the folder and circulate the sheet to the first conveyance passage, (3) cause the first conveyor and the second conveyor to convey the sheet while nipping the sheet again to warp the sheet between the first conveyor and the second conveyor, (4) guide the warped sheet to form a second fold on the sheet by the folder, and (5) cause the second conveyor to convey the sheet with the first fold and the second fold.

Sheet processing device and image forming system incorporating the sheet processing device

A sheet folding device, which is included in an image forming system and uses a sheet folding method, includes first and second drive motors, a first sheet conveyor driven by the first drive motor and configured to receive and convey a sheet toward a downstream side of a sheet conveying direction, a second sheet conveyor driven by the second drive motor and configured to receive the sheet conveyed from the first sheet conveyor and to convey the sheet to the downstream side of the sheet conveying direction, and a controller configured to fold the sheet to a predetermined folding length set according to an amount of conveyance of the sheet by the second sheet conveyor while the sheet is being held between the first and second sheet conveyors, and to perform a feedback control with an integral gain to the second drive motor.

Sheet folding method, image forming system, and sheet folding device with motor employing being controlled to perform a feedback control with an integral gain

A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance roller pair that rotates in a certain direction to convey a sheet, a first normal-reverse rotation roller pair that is capable of rotating in a normal direction and a reverse direction and rotates to convey the sheet, a first driver that drives the first normal-reverse rotation roller pair to rotate, and a first driving force transmitter that transmits a driving force of the first driver for rotating the first normal-reverse rotation roller pair in a first specific direction to the conveyance roller pair so as to rotate the conveyance roller pair in the certain direction, and blocks a driving force of the first driver for rotating the first normal-reverse rotation roller pair in the direction opposite to the first specific direction from being transmitted to the conveyance roller pair.

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system having plural roller pairs

Benzoic acid derivatives useful as intermediates for the preparation of drugs and agricultural chemicals, particularly compounds having herbicidal activity; and easy and economical processes for the preparation of the same. The processes are specifically those represented by reaction formula for the preparation of compounds represented by general formulae (1) and (6).

Benzoic acid derivatives and processes for the preparation thereof

Oxime O-ether compounds and fungicides for agricultural and horticultural use

The present invention provides a process for the production of a 4-substituted azetidinone. The process comprises reacting ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a protecting group for N, R.sup.1 represents an alkyl which may be a substituent having an unprotected or protected hydroxyl group; and Z represents a leaving group; with ##STR2## wherein R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, phenyl, cycloalkyl, or naphthyl, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded, form a ring system; X and Y each represent oxygen, sulfur or N-r.sup.1, wherein r.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or lower alkyl; A, B, D and E each represent nitrogen or C-r.sup.2, wherein r.sup.2 represents hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, provided that at least two of A, B, D and E are C-r.sup.2 ; and a ring involving G, J and K has two carbon/carbon double bonds therein and one of G, J and K represents oxygen, sulfur or N-r.sup.1 while the remaining two represent C-r.sup.2 ; in the presence of

Process for the production of 4-substituted azetidinone derivative

A process for preparing 4-substituted azetidinone derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or an easily removable protecting group; R.sup.1 is alkyl which can be substituted by hydroxy which can be protected or halogen; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sup.3 is alkyl, trialkylsilyl, phenyl which can be substituted by alkyl, alkoxy, nitro or halogen, cycloalkyl, naphthyl, anthracenyl, fluorenyl, benzothiazolyl or naphthalimidyl; and R.sup.4 is an electron withdrawing group or can form a ring together with R.sup.3, which comprises reacting an azetidinone derivative of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R and R.sup.1 are as defined above, and Z is a leaving group, and an imide compound of the formula: ##STR3## wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are as defined above, in the presence of a titanium compound of the formula:

Process for preparing 4-substituted azetidinone derivatives

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Yuuki Nakagawa