SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: FUJIWARA HIDEHIKO, SHIBAZAKI YUSUKE, KUNIEDA AKIRA, BANNO HIROKI, MORINAGA TAKUYA, SATO SHOICHI, TAKAHASHI KO, SUZUKI NOBUYASU, KOSUGE KATSUHIRO, HARAGUCHI YOSUKE, HIDAKA MAKOTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 04.02.2016
• Subjects: BOOKBINDING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CONVEYING; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; FILES; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PERMANENTLY ATTACHING TOGETHER SHEETS, QUIRES OR SIGNATURES ORPERMANENTLY ATTACHING OBJECTS THERETO; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER; STORING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet processing device at a low cost, capable of performing binding process with a sheet without interfering with transportation of the sheet, of small size and simple configuration.SOLUTION: A sheet processing device includes a plurality of binding parts 420, 430 which bind a plurality of pieces of sheets in different binding methods by a single binding process with an upper limit on the number of sheets capable of binding at a time being different, a sheet loading part 440 for loading a plurality of pieces of sheets to be bound, and a thickness regulation part 460 for regulating thickness of the plurality of pieces of sheets that are loaded on the sheet loading part 440.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】小型かつ簡易な構成でシートの搬送を邪魔することなくシートに対する綴じ処理を実行する低コストのシート処理装置を提供すること。【解決手段】それぞれ異なる綴じ方法で複数枚のシートを綴じ、一回の綴じ処理により綴じることができるシートの上限枚数がそれぞれ異なる複数の綴じ部４２０、４３０と、綴じる対象となる複数枚のシートを積載するシート積載部４４０と、前記シート積載部４４０に積載される前記複数枚のシートの厚さを規制する厚さ規制部４６０と、を備える。【選択図】図４