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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Yuta Yanai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Susaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuta Yanai, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Susaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a receptacle, an aligner, a crimp binder, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a medium. The receptacle holds the medium. The aligner contacts a downstream end of the medium and aligns a position of the medium in a conveyance direction of the medium. The crimp binder faces the downstream end of the medium to press and deform a binding position on media of which the position is aligned, to bind the media. The aligner and the crimp binder are movable in a main scanning direction orthogonal to each of the conveyance direction and a thickness direction of the medium. When determining that the aligner overlaps the binding position when the receptacle is viewed in the thickness direction, the circuitry moves the aligner in the main scanning direction away from the binding position and causes the crimp binder to crimp and bind the media.