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US 11,124,380 B2Granted
Sheet binding apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKikuo Mizutani
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Abstract
A sheet binding apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tape holding section and a guide section. The tape holding section holds a tape in at least two parts. The guide section guides a sheet bundle to between the two parts of the tape. The tape holding section bends and holds the tape to be convex to a conveying direction downstream side of the sheet bundle.
Claims13
A sheet binding apparatus, comprising:
- a tape holding section configured to hold a tape in at least two different locations of the tape;
- a guide section configured to guide a sheet bundle to between the two different locations of the tape, and
- a tape conveyance guide configured to form a conveying path of the tape, wherein
- the tape holding section bends and holds the tape so as to be convex with respect to a conveying direction on a downstream side of the sheet bundle, and
- wherein the tape conveyance guide includes a recessed section for holding the tape to be bent in a curve shape.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming section that forms an image on sheets and stacks the sheets into a sheet bundle;
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- a sheet binding apparatus, comprising:
- a tape holding section configured to hold a tape in at least two different locations of the tape;
- a guide section configured to guide the sheet bundle to between the two different locations of the tape, and
- a tape conveyance guide configured to form a conveying path of the tape wherein
- the tape holding section bends and holds the tape so as to be convex with respect to a conveying direction on a downstream side of the sheet bundle, and wherein
- the tape conveyance guide includes a recessed section for holding the tape to be bent in a curve shape.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.