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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2009
Applicant:
Shinobu Seki, Toyohashi, JP;
Inventor:
Shinobu Seki, Toyohashi, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 29/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A sheet ejecting device has a pair of ejection rollers, a strengthener arranged in the sheet ejection device, for strengthening a sheet, a driver for moving the strengthener to advance into and retreat from a sheet ejection route, a sheet sensor, and a tray for receiving sheets ejected via the pair of ejection rollers and holding the sheets in a stack. Based on a detection signal from the sheet sensor, the strengthener is moved to advance into and retreat from the sheet ejection route so that only a necessary part of a sheet can be strengthened.