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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2005
Chiaki Iizuka, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Takahisa Hirano, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Katsuya Sasahara, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Takahide Takahashi, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Tsuchihasi, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Chiaki Iizuka, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Takahisa Hirano, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Katsuya Sasahara, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Takahide Takahashi, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiroyuki Tsuchihasi, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention includes a gate for conveying sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus by switching to a first conveying path requiring post processing or to a second conveying path requiring no post processing and a manual introduction unit for post-processing the sheets of paper conveyed via the first conveying path by a processing mechanism and ejecting them to a first paper ejection tray and manually leading sheets of paper requiring post processing to the processing mechanism, and when the post process is executed in a manual mode, switches the gate to the second conveying path, and when sheets of paper are taken in from the image forming apparatus, ejects the sheets of paper to a second paper ejection tray via the second conveying path.