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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2023
Yasunobu Kidoura, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Kunieda, Tokyo, JP;
Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Horita, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Kuno, Tokyo, JP;
Koju Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Ryohsuke Akaishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasunobu Kidoura, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Kunieda, Tokyo, JP;
Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Horita, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Kuno, Tokyo, JP;
Koju Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Ryohsuke Akaishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a sheet laminator. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet being conveyed as an inner sheet. The sheet laminator performs a sheet laminating operation on a two-ply sheet in which the sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus is inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The sheet laminator includes a heater and circuitry. The heater heats the two-ply sheet during the sheet laminating operation. The circuitry is to execute a control mode when a specific abnormal event occurs among a plurality of abnormal events that occurs in the image forming apparatus, where the control mode maintains heating by the heater of the sheet laminator for a predetermined time and interrupt the heating by the heater when an abnormal event other than the specific abnormal event occurs.