Sheet discharge apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsMasahiro Kaneko, Toshio Shida
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Abstract
A sheet discharge apparatus includes: a discharger that discharges a sheet; a loading part on which the sheet discharged from the discharger is loaded; an abutment member that abuts against a rear end of the sheet in a direction of discharging to align the sheet loaded on the loading part; a pull-back member that performs a pull-back operation by contacting with the sheet discharged from the discharger to pull back the sheet toward the abutment member; and a hardware processor that controls the pull-back member. The hardware processor performs the pull-pack operation on a sheet bundle when determining that the sheet bundle bound by a binder is discharged from the discharger.
Claims9
A sheet discharge apparatus comprising:
- a discharger that discharges a sheet;
- a loading part on which the sheet discharged from the discharger is loaded;
- an abutment member that abuts against a rear end of the sheet in a direction of discharging to align the sheet loaded on the loading part;
- a pull-back member that performs a pull-back operation by contacting with the sheet discharged from the discharger to pull back the sheet toward the abutment member;
- and
- a hardware processor that controls the pull-back member,
- wherein the hardware processor performs the pull-pack operation on a sheet bundle upon determining that the sheet bundle bound by a binder is discharged from the discharger.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming apparatus main body that forms an image on a sheet;
- a sheet processor that applies processing to the sheet fed from the image forming apparatus main body;
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- a hardware processor that controls the sheet processor,
- wherein the sheet processor comprises a sheet discharge apparatus that discharges the sheet,
- the sheet discharge apparatus comprises:
- a discharger that discharges the sheet;
- a loading part on which the sheet discharged from the discharger is loaded;
- an abutment member that abuts against a rear end of the sheet in a direction of discharging to align the sheet loaded on the loading part;
- and
- a pull-pack member that performs a pull-pack operation by contacting with the sheet discharged from the discharger to pull back the sheet toward the abutment member, and
- the hardware processor performs the pull-pack operation on a sheet bundle upon determining that the sheet bundle bound by a binder is discharged from the discharger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.