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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2012
Kiyoshi Watanabe, Matsudo, JP;
Hideki Kushida, Moriya, JP;
Toshiyuki Iwata, Abiko, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A finisherincludes a pair of bundle discharge rollers, a lower stack tray, and a width-direction aligning portion. The width-direction aligning portion includes a pair of aligning membersand a driving motor. The aligning member includes a pair of first aligning membersthat is rotatably supported while being movable in the sheet width direction orthogonal to the discharge direction and a pair of second aligning members. The driving motor rotates the pair of first aligning members and moves the pair of first aligning members in the width direction. When the pair of first aligning members rotates and one of the pair of second aligning members abuts on the sheet, the pair of second aligning members forms opposite surfaces in which the sheet can be aligned in the width direction, and the pair of first aligning members align the sheet by the opposite surfaces.