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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2017
Yusuke Obuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hideto Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Takahashi, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Seiji Nishizawa, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Yusuke Obuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hideto Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Masaya Takahashi, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
Seiji Nishizawa, Yamanashi-ken, JP;
CANON FINETECH NISCA INC., Misato-Shi, Saitama, JP;
Abstract
A sheet binding apparatus includes a stack portion on which sheets are stacked; a manual setting portion, different from the stack portion, to which sheets are manually set from an outside of the apparatus; a first binding portion binding sheets stacked on the stack portion and set on the manual setting portion, the first binding portion being movable to a first position where sheets on the stack portion are bound and to a second position, different from the first position where sheets set on the manual setting portion are bound; and a second binding portion binding sheets stacked on the stack portion, the second binding portion being different from the first binding portion. The first position is set, with respect to a moving direction of the first binding portion, between the second position and a third position where the second binding portion binds sheets stacked on the stack portion.