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Patent No.:

US 10017350 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2015

Sheet processing apparatus that properly performs fold line processing, and image forming system

Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yutaka Ando, Toride, JP;

Akinobu Nishikata, Abiko, JP;

Akihiro Arai, Toride, JP;

Assignee:

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP

Primary Examiner:

Leslie A Nicholson, III

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 1/00 (2006.01); B65H 37/06 (2006.01); B31F 1/00 (2006.01); B65H 45/12 (2006.01); B65H 37/04 (2006.01); B65H 45/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 37/06 (2013.01); B31F 1/00 (2013.01); B31F 1/0006 (2013.01); B31F 1/0035 (2013.01); B65H 37/04 (2013.01); B65H 45/12 (2013.01); B65H 45/18 (2013.01); G03G 15/6538 (2013.01); G03G 15/6541 (2013.01); B65H 2301/163 (2013.01); B65H 2301/51232 (2013.01); B65H 2408/125 (2013.01); B65H 2511/10 (2013.01); B65H 2511/22 (2013.01); B65H 2515/112 (2013.01); B65H 2701/13212 (2013.01); B65H 2801/06 (2013.01); B65H 2801/27 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00877 (2013.01);
Abstract

A sheet processing apparatus that is capable of properly performing fold line processing at a position depending on a sheet bundle. In a sheet processing apparatus, sheets sequentially received from an image forming apparatus are stacked on a bookbinding processing tray to form a sheet bundle. The sheet bundle is folded at the center thereof, and is conveyed to a processing position. A press unit moves along a fold line portion of the sheet bundle to thereby perform flattening processing for flattening the fold line portion by pressing the fold line portion from a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction. A first pressing strength set by a user using the image forming apparatus and the second pressing strength acquired information on the sheet bundle are compared with each other, and the processing position is determined based on a result of the comparison.

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