Sheet-material associating – Associating or disassociating – Sheet associating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-10
2007-04-10
Crawford, Gene O (Department: 3651)
Sheet-material associating
Associating or disassociating
Sheet associating
C270S058080, C270S058090, C270S058140, C399S408000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11109889
ABSTRACT:
A sheet finisher includes: a sheet stacker for stacking sheets outputted from an image forming apparatus to form a sheet bundle; a binder for binding the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacker; an ejection device for ejecting out of the sheet finisher at least one of the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacker and the sheet bundle which has been bound; an ejection tray for stacking the ejected sheet bundle or the bound sheet bundle sequentially; and a controller for controlling the ejection device to make the bound sheet bundle to wait on the sheet stacker, to make a sheet outputted from the apparatus which have not been bound to stack sequentially on the bound sheet bundle, and to make the bound sheet bundle and the sheet stacked on the bound sheet bundle as a unit to eject to the ejection tray.
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Hosoi Ken-ichi
Tanigami Shinya
Ushio Masaru
Crawford Gene O
Frishauf Holtz Goodman & Chick P.C.
Konica Minolta Business Technologies Inc.
Nicholson, III Leslie A.
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