Sheet finishing apparatus and sheet finishing method
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuhiko TSUCHIYA, Akira Suzuki, Hiroyuki Taguchi
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Abstract
A sheet finishing apparatus includes an outer wall having a discharge port of sheets; a movable tray on which the sheets discharged from the discharge port are stacked, the movable tray vertically moving along the outer wall according to a stack amount of the sheets; a curl sensor that detects a curled state of the sheets before the sheets are discharged from the discharge port; and a control unit that controls at least one of a discharge speed of the sheets and a position of the movable tray according to the detected curled state of the sheets.
Claims20
A sheet finishing apparatus comprising:
- an outer wall having a discharge port of sheets;
- a movable tray on which the sheets discharged from the discharge port are stacked, the movable tray vertically moving along the outer wall according to a stack amount of the sheets;
- a curl sensor that detects a curled state of the sheets before the sheets are discharged from the discharge port;
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- a control unit that controls at least one of a discharge speed of the sheets and a position of the movable tray according to the detected curled state of the sheets.
A sheet finishing method comprising:
- providing an outer wall having a discharge port of sheets;
- vertically moving a movable tray on which the sheets discharged from the discharge port are stacked, along the outer wall having the discharge port according to a stack amount of the sheets;
- detecting a curled state of the sheets before the sheets are discharged from the discharge port by a curl sensor;
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- controlling at least one of a discharge speed of the sheets and a position of the movable tray according to the curled state of the sheets, which is detected by the curl sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.