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US 12,466,689 B2Granted
Binding apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsNobuhide Inaba, Kumiko Tanaka, Takashi Ogino, Masashi Matsumoto, Takumi Uegane
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Abstract
A binding apparatus includes a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper, a water adjuster configured to adjust an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper, and a processor configured to, based on a setting on one of the binder or the water adjuster, make a setting on the other one of the binder or the water adjuster.
Claims19
A binding apparatus comprising:
- a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper;
- a water adjuster configured to adjust an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- based on a setting on one of the binder or the water adjuster, make a setting on the other one of the binder or the water adjuster, and
- set an advancing amount of the binding teeth to be advanced toward the sheets of paper by the binder based on a setting on the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water adjuster.
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A binding apparatus comprising:
- a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper;
- a water adjuster configured to adjust an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper;
- and
- a processor configured to control at least one of the binder or the water adjuster,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- control at least one of the binder or the water adjuster so that a proportion of a volume of water contained in a binding portion on the sheets of paper bound by the binder to a volume of the binding portion falls within a specific range, and
- set an advancing amount of the binding teeth to be advanced toward the sheets of paper by the binder based on a setting on the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water adjuster.
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A binding apparatus comprising:
- a binding means for binding sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper;
- a water adjusting means for adjusting an amount of water contained in the sheets of paper;
- and
- processing means for, based on a setting on one of the binding means or the water adjusting means, making a setting on the other one of the binding means or the water adjusting means, and for setting an advancing amount of the binding teeth to be advanced toward the sheets of paper by the binding means based on a setting on the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water adjuster.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.