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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2007
Masayuki Watanabe, Fuchu, JP;
Eiji Sugimoto, Hino, JP;
Hideo Yamane, Hachioji, JP;
Takumi Shirakuma, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Watanabe, Fuchu, JP;
Eiji Sugimoto, Hino, JP;
Hideo Yamane, Hachioji, JP;
Takumi Shirakuma, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet finisher having a post-processing section that conducts post-processing on a sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, the sheet finisher comprising: an intermediate storing section in which a plurality of sheets conveyed from the image forming apparatus are superposed to be stored temporarily; a pair of conveyance rollers that convey the plurality of sheets stored in the intermediate storing section to the post-processing section while the plurality of sheets are superposed; each of two drive motors which drives one of the pair of conveyance rollers that comes in contact with one sheet of the plurality of sheets and the other of the pair of conveyance rollers that comes in contact with the other sheet of the plurality of sheets, separately; and a correction controller that controls a rotation speed of at least one of the two drive motors.