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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshihiko Sano, Ibaraki, JP;
Yasuyuki Tsuji, Ibaraki, JP;
Takeshi Terakado, Ibaraki, JP;
Kazutoshi Obara, Ibaraki, JP;
Masaru Kawamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355310 ; 355309 ; 355321 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus for forming images of plurality of pages on one cut sheet, includes: a sheet cutting mechanism for cutting a cut sheet on which images of a plurality of pages have been formed into smaller sheets the number of which corresponds to the number of the pages; a sheet arranging mechanism for arranging the smaller sheets thus provided; and a sheet stacking mechanism for stacking the smaller sheets thus arranged. Hence, it is unnecessary for the apparatus to have a sheet post-processing apparatus.