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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
Katsuya Hakozaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Max Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A motor driven stapler in which there are no fears of cutting off and need for loosed part of the lead wires of photo sensor for detection of sheets to be bundled, is provided. The stapler comprises a driving out portion from which a stapler is driven out; a table which forwardly and backwardly reciprocates; and a clincher which is disposed on the table so as to put and hold a pile of sheets to be bundled between itself and the driving out portion when the table forwardly moves and at the same time a stapler is driven out from the driving out portion against the pile of sheets, and to clinch the front end portions of the staple which penetrate through the pile of sheets, wherein a photo sensor is disposed in the other side of table opposite to the driving out portion; and one or more through holes are arranged in the table in order to guide the emitted light beam from a light emission diode of the photo sensor to the pile of sheets and to guide the reflected light beam from a surface of the pile of sheets to a light receiving diode of said photo sensor