Sheet post-processing apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki TAKI
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Abstract
According to an embodiment, a sheet post-processing apparatus according to the embodiment includes a paddle member and a controller. The paddle member rotates around a rotating shaft, presses a plurality of sheets held on a processing tray against a stopper and aligns ends of the sheets in a sheet transport direction. After the ends of the sheets in the sheet transport direction are aligned, the controller further rotates the paddle member, and stops rotation of the paddle member in a state that the paddle member comes in contact with the sheets held on the processing tray.
Claims10
A sheet post-processing apparatus, comprising:
- a transport roller configured to transport sheets;
- a processing tray configured to hold the sheets transported by the transport roller;
- a stopper that is disposed on an upstream side of the processing tray in a sheet transport direction;
- a paddle member configured to rotate around a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being disposed in a sheet width direction of the sheets held on the processing tray, the sheet width direction being orthogonal to the sheet transport direction, the rotating paddle member pressing the sheets held on the processing tray against the stopper and aligning ends of the sheets misaligned in the sheet transport direction;
- and
- a controller configured to
- stop rotation of the paddle member in a state that the paddle member comes in contact with the sheets held on the processing tray, and
- drive the transport roller to transport subsequent sheets to the processing tray.
A sheet post-processing apparatus, comprising:
- a transport roller configured to transport sheets;
- a processing tray configured to hold the sheets transported by the transport roller;
- a stopper that is disposed on an upstream side of the processing tray in a sheet transport direction;
- a paddle member configured to rotate around a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being extended in a sheet width direction of the sheets held on the processing tray, the sheet width direction being orthogonal to the sheet transport direction, the rotating paddle member aligning ends of the sheets in the sheet transport direction where the sheets held on the processing tray come in contact with the stopper;
- a stapler configured to execute stapling processing on the sheets on the processing tray;
- and
- a controller configured to
- stop rotation of the paddle member in a state that the paddle member comes in contact with the sheets on the processing tray, and
- operate the stapler to execute the stapling processing on the sheets that are in contact with the paddle member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.