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US 11,084,682 · App. 16/127,554 · Granted Aug 10, 2021

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system

Inventors: Takahiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, JP); Tomohiro Furuhashi (Kanagawa, JP); Michitaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Tomomichi Hoshino (Kanagawa, JP); Yuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Satoshi Saito (Kanagawa, JP); Takao Watanabe (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
B65H45/20B65H45/101B65H45/14G03G15/6582G03G21/1638B65H2801/27G03G15/70G03G2215/00877
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Patent No.
US 11,084,682
App. No.
16/127,554
Granted
Aug 10, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sheet processing apparatus includes: a second conveying roller pair that receives and conveys a sheet conveyed by a first conveying roller pair; a first folding roller pair that forms a first fold on the sheet; and a first rotation unit capable of rotating the second conveying roller pair and the first folding roller pair. One roller of the second conveying roller pair and one roller of the first folding roller pair are a common roller shared therebetween. The second conveying roller pair causes the sheet to be deflected and guided to the first folding roller pair, and the first folding roller pair forms the first fold on the deflected sheet by rotating the first rotation unit in a certain direction in a state in which the sheet is held by the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair.

Claims (40)

1. A sheet processing apparatus comprising:

a first conveying roller pair configured to convey a sheet;

a second conveying roller pair configured to receive the sheet conveyed by the first conveying roller pair, the second conveying roller pair configured to rotate in a forward and a reverse direction, the second conveying roller pair configured to further convey the sheet received from the first conveying roller pair;

a folding roller pair between the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair, the folding roller pair configured to form a fold on the sheet; and

a rotation device configured to:

cause the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair to rotate in response to manual rotation of the rotation device in a first direction, and

cause one roller of the folding roller pair to idle in response to manual rotation of the rotation device in a second direction opposite the first direction.

2. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet is ejected from the folding roller pair in a direction in which the sheet is conveyed by the folding roller pair, by continuing to manually rotate the rotation device in the first direction while the sheet is held by at least the second conveying roller pair.

3. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein, in response to the manual rotation of the rotation device in the first direction, the sheet is conveyed by the folding roller pair to a space downstream in the direction in which the sheet is conveyed by the folding roller pair, the space being a space for removing the sheet from the sheet processing apparatus.

4. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation device includes a rotation knob for rotating the rotation device, the rotation knob being attached to the one roller of the folding roller pair.

5. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one roller of the second conveying roller pair and the one roller of the folding roller pair is a common roller shared between the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair.

6. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a driving source configured to transmit a first driving force to the second conveying roller pair via a first drive transmission path, wherein

the rotation device is configured to rotate the common roller by transmitting a rotational force thereto via a second drive transmission path different from the first drive transmission path, in response to the manual rotation of the rotation device in the first direction.

7. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the second drive transmission path includes a rotation shaft of the common roller.

8. An image forming system comprising:

an image forming device configured to form an image on a sheet; and

the sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the sheet processing apparatus being above the imaging forming device.

9. An image forming system comprising:

an image forming device configured to form an image on a sheet; and

the sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , the sheet processing apparatus being adjacent to the image forming device along a horizontal direction.

10. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation device is connected to a shaft of the one roller of the folding roller pair.

11. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation device is configured to:

transmit a rotational force to the one roller of the folding roller pair to rotate the one roller of the folding roller pair in response to rotation of the rotation device in the first direction, and

not transmit the rotational force to the one roller of the folding roller pair in response to rotation of the rotation device in the second direction opposite the first direction.

12. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation device is configured to rotate the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair in response to the manual rotation of the rotation device by a user.

13. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the folding roller pair is configured to form the fold on the sheet in response to the manual rotation of the rotation device in the first direction while the sheet is held by at least the second conveying roller pair.

14. The sheeting processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation device is configured so that when a cover of the sheet processing apparatus is opened, a user can directly contact the rotation device.

15. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a bifurcating claw configured to move between a closed state and an open state based on a mode of the sheet processing apparatus.

16. The sheet processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a bifurcating claw configured to guide the sheet to the folding roller pair when forming the fold in the sheet.

17. A sheet processing apparatus comprising:

a first conveying roller pair configured to convey a sheet;

a second conveying roller pair configured to receive the sheet conveyed by the first conveying roller pair, the second conveying roller pair configured to rotate in a forward and a reverse direction, the second conveying roller pair configured to further convey the sheet received from the first conveying roller pair;

a folding roller pair between the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair, the folding roller pair configured to form a fold on the sheet;

a driving source configured to drive a common roller of the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair in a first direction; and

a rotation device configured to:

cause the common roller of the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair to rotate in response to manual rotation of the rotation device in the first direction, and

cause the common roller of the second conveying roller pair and the folding roller pair to idle in response to manual rotation of the rotation device in a second direction opposite the first direction.

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2014-179533 · Sep 3, 2014 · national
JP 2015-124860 · Jun 22, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14838890 · Aug 28, 2015
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