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AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTakeshi ISHIDA, Kiyohito TSUJIHARA, Takatoshi HAMADA, Hiroaki TAKATSU, Yohei YAMADA, Akimasa ISHIKAWA
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A sheet folder includes a blade for bending a sheet, a pair of folding rollers for sandwiching the sheet bent by the blade, a heating unit for heating a folded part of the sheet sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers by the blade, a temperature detection unit for detecting a temperature of the folded part, and a control unit for keeping a state in which the sheet is sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers until at least one of a temperature change and a temperature of the folded part that are detected by the temperature detection unit satisfies a prescribed condition after the blade allows the sheet to be sandwiched between the pair of folding rollers.
A sheet folder for creasing a sheet, comprising:
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