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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Toru Horio, Aichi-ken, JP;
Minoru Hattori, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shigeru Mizuno, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ikumi Takashima, Aichi-ken, JP;
Koji Furuta, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masanobu Kimata, Aichi-ken, JP;
Miyuki Ito, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshihide Sugiyama, Aichi-ken, JP;
Akihiro Tsuno, Aichi-ken, JP;
Nakayama Naoya, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ueno Shinichi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toru Horio, Aichi-ken, JP;
Minoru Hattori, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shigeru Mizuno, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ikumi Takashima, Aichi-ken, JP;
Koji Furuta, Aichi-ken, JP;
Masanobu Kimata, Aichi-ken, JP;
Miyuki Ito, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yoshihide Sugiyama, Aichi-ken, JP;
Akihiro Tsuno, Aichi-ken, JP;
Nakayama Naoya, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ueno Shinichi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet medium adjustment apparatus, e.g., in an image forming system, includes: an ejector to eject a conveyed sheet; a stacking device to stack each sheet ejected from the sheet ejector into a stack on a tray; a moving device to shift the stacking device in a movement direction perpendicular to a sheet-ejecting direction; a sheet aligning member to align ends of the sheets in the stack that are parallel to the sheet-ejecting direction; a stepping motor to move the sheet aligning member; and an evacuation device to evacuate the aligning member by an amount representing an evacuation displacement in the movement direction at a timing of aligning the sheet, the evacuation displacement being determined adaptively according to at least one of an attribute of a given sheet in the stack, an attribute of the stack as a whole and an attribute of the tray.