Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShoko Magata, Takeshi Aoyama, Masahiro Funakoshi, Yuichi Yamamoto, Daijiro Kato
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Abstract
Provided is a bookbinding apparatus including: a conveying unit which sequentially conveys sheets; a gluing unit which glues the sheets conveyed by the conveying unit; a stacking unit which sequentially stacks the sheets glued by the gluing unit; a pressurizing unit which pressurizes glued portions of the sheets stacked on the stacking unit; and a control unit which temporarily stops a stacking process carried out by the conveying unit onto the stacking unit and causes the pressurizing unit to execute a pressurizing process on the sheets stacked on the stacking unit when an operation interrupting event occurs during the stacking process.
Claims12
A bookbinding apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying unit which conveys a sheet;
- a gluing unit which glues the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit;
- a stacking unit which stacks a plurality of sheets glued by the gluing unit;
- a pressurizing unit which pressurizes glued portions of the plurality of sheets stacked on the stacking unit;
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- a control unit which temporarily stops a stacking process carried out by the stacking unit and causes the pressurizing unit to execute a pressurizing process on the sheets stacked on the stacking unit when an operation interrupting event occurs during the stacking process.
An image forming system including a bookbinding apparatus and an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet;
- a conveying unit which conveys the sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming unit;
- a gluing unit which glues sheets conveyed by the conveying unit;
- a stacking unit which stacks a plurality of sheets glued by the gluing unit;
- a pressurizing unit which pressurizes glued portions of the plurality of sheets stacked on the stacking unit;
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- a control unit which temporarily stops a stacking process carried out by the stacking unit, and causes the pressurizing unit to execute a pressurizing process on the sheets stacked on the stacking unit when an operation interrupting event occurs during the stacking process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.