G03G 15/6538
Devices for collating sheet copy material
Official title: {Devices for collating sheet copy material, e.g. sorters, control, copies in staples form}
G03G15/6538 (Devices for collating sheet copy material) appears on 1,729 US grants and 1,512 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Media processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system22 Sep 2026US 12,741,843 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,233 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus and sheet bonding apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,262 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus18 Aug 2026US 12,709,507 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus with fixing via rotary heater and bonding via heater configured to move in thickness direction18 Aug 2026US 12,710,715 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and recording medium processing apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310124 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313055 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus that bond sheet bundle with adhesive1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299503 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299849 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299850 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Variable thickness set compensation for stapler637US 4,421,264 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1983
- Printer mailbox system signaling overdue removals of print jobs from mailbox bins256US 5,435,544 AXerox Corporation · 1995
- Very high speed duplicator with finishing function using dual copy set transports218US 4,566,782 AXerox Corporation · 1986
- Very high speed duplicator with finishing function217US 4,361,393 AXerox Corporation · 1982
- High speed duplicator with finishing function197US 4,385,827 AXerox Corporation · 1983