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US 10,501,279 B2Granted
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus to detach a bound sheet bundle from a teeth portion
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideto Abe, Rikiya Takemasa
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Abstract
A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding unit including a first portion and a second portion and configured to nip a sheet bundle between the first portion and the second portion to deform the sheet bundle in a thickness direction to bind the sheet bundle, and a detachment unit configured to push the bound sheet bundle toward the second portion to detach the bound sheet bundle from the first portion.
Claims8
A sheet processing apparatus comprising:
- a binding unit including a first teeth portion and a second teeth portion, and configured to bind a sheet bundle between the first teeth portion and the second teeth portion by biting the sheet bundle with the first teeth portion and the second teeth portion;
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- a detachment unit configured to urge the bound sheet bundle away from the first teeth portion to detach the bound sheet bundle from the first teeth portion,
- wherein a surface of the first teeth portion is coarser than a surface of the second teeth portion.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a binding unit including a first teeth portion and a second teeth portion, and configured to bind a sheet bundle, having a sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming unit, between the first teeth portion and the second teeth portion by biting the sheet bundle with the first teeth portion and the second teeth portion;
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- a detachment unit configured to urge the bound sheet bundle toward the second teeth portion to detach the bound sheet bundle from the first teeth portion,
- wherein a surface of the first teeth portion is coarser than a surface of the second teeth portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.