Alignment mechanism for sheet finishing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and alignment method for the sheet finishing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShogo OZAWA, Kikuo MIZUTANI
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a sheet finishing apparatus includes a supporting unit, a positioning unit, a socket mechanism, and a moving unit. The supporting unit supports a sheet fed from an image forming unit. The positioning unit has a contact surface which a side end of the sheet placed on the supporting unit is come into contact with. The socket mechanism projects from the contact surface of the positioning unit and is located above the supporting unit. The moving unit comes into contact with the upper surface of the sheet placed on the supporting unit and moves the sheet in the direction of the contact surface of the positioning unit.
Claims20
A sheet finishing apparatus comprising:
- a supporting unit which supports a sheet fed from an image forming unit;
- a positioning unit having a contact surface with which a side end of the sheet placed on the supporting unit comes into contact;
- a socket mechanism which is projecting from the contact surface of the positioning unit, and is located above the supporting unit;
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- a moving unit which comes into contact with an upper surface of the sheet placed on the supporting unit and moves the sheet in a direction of the contact surface of the positioning unit.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet;
- a supporting unit which supports the sheet having the image formed thereon by the image forming unit;
- a positioning unit having a contact surface with which a side end of the sheet placed on the supporting unit comes into contact;
- a socket mechanism which is projecting from the contact surface of the positioning unit, and is located above the supporting unit;
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- a moving unit which comes into contact with an upper surface of the sheet placed on the supporting unit and moves the sheet in a direction of the contact surface of the positioning unit.
An alignment method for a sheet finishing apparatus, comprising:
- placing a sheet discharged from an image forming unit on a supporting unit;
- coming a moving unit into contact with a surface of the sheet placed on the supporting unit, moving the sheet in a direction of a contact surface of a positioning unit, and coming a side end of the sheet into contact with the positioning unit;
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- coming, when the sheet is come into contact with the positioning unit, a lower surface of a socket mechanism projecting from the contact surface of the positioning unit, and located above the supporting unit into contact with an upper surface of the sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.