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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2018
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Jun Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 31/38 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/6573 (2013.01); B65H 31/38 (2013.01); G03G 15/6541 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4213 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4222 (2013.01); B65H 2301/4223 (2013.01); B65H 2405/11151 (2013.01); B65H 2701/1315 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00827 (2013.01);
Abstract
The postprocessing device includes: a stapling unit for stapling a sheet bundle with a staple; a discharge tray to which a bound sheet bundle bound with the staple is to be discharged; a moving member movable in both a direction of approaching the discharge tray and a direction of going away from the discharge tray; and a control section for, when the bound sheet bundle has been discharged, driving the moving member to execute a process of making the moving member hit against the bound sheet bundle or against the discharge tray.