# US 9,517,652 B2 · Sheet post-processing device and image forming device provided with the sheet post-processing device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,517,652 B2 - Document ID: US9517652B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/491,399 - Filed: 2014-09-19 - Published: 2015-03-26 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2013-09-26 - Assignees: Nisca Corporation - Applicants: Kazuyuki Kubota; Eiji Fukasawa; Ichitaro Kubota; Hideyuki Kubota; Hisashi Osada; Takahiro Nakano; Hiroyuki Sorita; Junya Nakajima; Takuma Kobayashi; Takashi Saito; Isao Kondo - Inventors: Kazuyuki Kubota; Eiji Fukasawa; Ichitaro Kubota; Hideyuki Kubota; Hisashi Osada; Takahiro Nakano; Hiroyuki Sorita; Junya Nakajima; Takuma Kobayashi; Takashi Saito; Isao Kondo - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9517652B2 ## CPC - B42B 5/08: by finger, claw or ring-like elements passing through the sheets, quires or signatures - B26F 1/02: Perforating by punching, e.g. with relatively-reciprocating punch and bed - B31F 5/00: Attaching together sheets, strips or webs; Reinforcing edges - B31F 5/06: by adhesive tape - B42C 1/12: Machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together the sheets or signatures - B42F 3/003: {Perforated or punched sheets} - B65H 5/06: by rollers {or balls, e.g. between rollers (transport by suction rollers B65H5/226)} - B65H 31/00: Pile receivers (carriers used for associating, collating or gathering articles B65H39/00) - B65H 37/04: for securing together articles or webs, e.g. by adhesive, stitching or stapling (adhering replacement to expiring web during change of web roll B65H19/18) - B65H 37/06: for folding - B65H 45/18: Oscillating or reciprocating blade folders (carried on rotary members B65H45/16) - F16B 15/0015: {Staples} - G03G 15/6544: {Details about the binding means or procedure} - B65H 2301/4505: Folding bound sheets, e.g. stapled sheets - B65H 2301/51611: involving at least a binding element traversing the handled material, e.g. staple - B65H 2701/18292: Stapled sets of sheets - B65H 2801/27: Devices located downstream of office-type machines - G03G 15/6582: {Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics or its appearance, e.g. stamping, annotation printing, punching} - G03G 2215/00818: Punch device - G03G 2215/00827: Stapler - G03G 2215/00877: Folding device - B42B: PERMANENTLY ATTACHING TOGETHER SHEETS, QUIRES OR SIGNATURES OR PERMANENTLY ATTACHING OBJECTS THERETO (nailing or stapling in general B25C, B27F; machines for both collating or gathering and permanently attaching together sheets or signatures B42C1/12; temporarily attaching sheets together B42F) - B26F: PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING (marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; shoemaking A43D; surgery A61B; punching metal B21D; drilling metal B23B; cutting of metal by applying heat locally, e.g. flame cutting, B23K; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; details common to machines for severing B26D; drilling wood B27C; drilling stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; of glass C03B; of leather C14B; of textile materials D06H; for light guides G02B6/25; of tickets G07B) - B31F: MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER (making layered products not composed wholly of paper or cardboard B32B) - B42C: BOOKBINDING (cutting or perforating machines, devices or tools B26; folding sheets or webs B31F; ornamenting books B44) - B42F: SHEETS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TOGETHER; FILING APPLIANCES; FILE CARDS; INDEXING (reading desks A47B19/00; book rests A47B23/00) - B65H: HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES - F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D) - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY ## Abstract A sheet post-processing device includes a conveying section that conveys the paper sheet, a punch section that punches punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section, a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section, a stopper section that regulates a conveying direction leading end of the paper sheet stored in the stacker section; a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle whose leading end is regulated by the stacker section, and a folding section that folds the paper sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position. The punch section punches the punch holes at the front and rear of the folding position in the sheet conveying direction, and the binding section binds the paper sheet bundle with a paper-made staple by making the paper-made staple penetrate the punch holes. With this configuration, there can be provided a sheet-post processing device capable of easily generating a booklet for simple ring binding. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A sheet post-processing device that punches punch holes in a paper sheet and binds a stored paper sheet bundle, comprising: a conveying section that conveys the paper sheet; a punch section that punches the punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section; a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section; a stopper section that regulates a leading end of the paper sheet in a sheet conveying direction stored in the stacker section; a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle whose leading end is regulated by the stacker section; and a folding section that folds the paper sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position, wherein the punch section punches the punch holes at an upstream and downstream relative to the folding position in the sheet conveying direction at the conveying section, and the binding section binds the paper sheet bundle with a paper-made staple including leg portions and a connection portion connecting the leg portions, by positioning the connection portion to straddle across the folding position from the upstream to the downstream of the sheet conveying direction and the leg portions to penetrate the punch holes, and bending the leg portions inwardly to bind the paper sheet bundle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the folding section includes a folding blade that moves toward the folding position of the paper sheet bundle in such a direction as to fold the paper sheet bundle and folding rollers that nip therebetween the paper sheet bundle folded by the folding blade, and the binding section holding the paper-made staple is movable at the folding position of the paper sheet bundle in a direction crossing the sheet conveying direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 2, wherein the folding blade that pushes the paper sheet bundle into between the folding rollers so as to fold the paper sheet bundle abuts against the leg portions of the paper-made staple, that are bent inward after penetration of the paper sheet bundle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 3, wherein the paper-made staple further has an adhesive portion that bonds the bent leg portions, and the folding blade abuts against the adhesive portion of the paper-made staple that has penetrated the punch holes. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the punch section changes an interval between the punch holes to be punched at the respective front and rear of the folding position in the sheet conveying direction depending on the number of paper sheets to be bundled. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 5, wherein the folding section includes a folding blade that moves toward the folding position of the paper sheet bundle in such a direction as to fold the paper sheet bundle and folding rollers that nip therebetween the paper sheet bundle folded by the folding blade, and the punch section sets the interval between the punch holes to be punched at the respective front and rear of the folding position in the sheet conveying direction such that the interval in paper sheets near the folding roller side is larger than the interval in paper sheets near the folding blade side. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) An image forming device comprising: an image forming unit that sequentially forms an image onto paper sheets; and a sheet post-processing device that performs post-processing for the paper sheet fed from the image forming unit, the sheet post-processing device having the configurations as claimed in claim 1. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 1, wherein the punch section comprises: a drive shaft driving the punch section, and two first punch units arranged on the drive shaft with a predetermined space away from each other in an intersecting direction relative to the sheet conveying direction, each of the first punch units having a first eccentric cam connected to the drive shaft and a first punch blade for punching the punch holes for inserting the paper-made staple, the first eccentric cams rotating with a rotation of the drive shaft to punch the punch holes with the first punch blades. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 8, wherein the punch section further comprises: two second punch units arranged on the drive shaft with a predetermined space away from each other in the intersecting direction and positioned between the two first punch units, each of the second punch units having a second eccentric cam connected to the drive shaft and a second punch blade for punching another punch holes, the second eccentric cams rotating with the rotation of the drive shaft to punch said another punch holes with the second punch blades, and the second eccentric cams have a different phase from that of the first eccentric cams so that when the drive shaft is rotated to rotate the second eccentric cams and move the second punch blades away from the paper sheet bundle, the first eccentric cams rotate to move the first punch blades toward the paper sheet bundle for punching the punch holes. ### Claim 10 A sheet post-processing device that punches punch holes in a paper sheet and binds a stored paper sheet bundle, comprising: a conveying section that conveys the paper sheet; a punch section that punches the punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section; a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section; a stopper section that regulates a leading end of the paper sheet in a sheet conveying direction stored in the stacker section; a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle whose leading end is regulated by the stacker section; and a folding section that folds the paper sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position, wherein the punch section punches the punch holes at an upstream and downstream relative to the folding position in the sheet conveying direction, and the binding section comprises a cutter blade entering into the punch holes at the upstream and downstream relative to the folding position and holding a paper-made staple in the cutter blade so that the paper-made staple straddles across the folding position and penetrates the punch holes to bind the paper sheet bundle. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 10, wherein the folding section includes a folding blade that moves toward the folding position of the paper sheet bundle in such a direction as to fold the paper sheet bundle and folding rollers that nip therebetween the paper sheet bundle folded by the folding blade, and the paper-made staple includes leg portions penetrating the punch holes of the paper sheet bundle and then bent inward and a connection portion connecting the leg portions, the connection portion being positioned so as to straddle the folding position in the sheet conveying direction. ### Claim 12 A sheet post-processing device that punches punch holes in a paper sheet and binds a stored paper sheet bundle, comprising: a conveying section that conveys the paper sheet; a punch section that punches the punch holes in the paper sheet conveyed by the conveying section; a stacker section that stores the paper sheet in which the punch holes are punched by the punch section; a stopper section that regulates a leading end of the paper sheet in a sheet conveying direction stored in the stacker section; a binding section that binds the paper sheet bundle whose leading end is regulated by the stacker section; and a folding section that folds the paper sheet bundle bound by the binding section at a predetermined folding position, wherein the punch section punches the punch holes at an upstream and downstream relative to the folding position in the sheet conveying direction, the binding section comprises a cutter blade penetrating the punch holes at the upstream and downstream relative to the folding position and holding a paper-made staple having a U-shape on an inner side thereof, and the cutter blade holding the paper-made staple is inserted into the punch holes so that the paper-made staple straddles across the folding position and penetrates the punch holes to bind the paper sheet bundle. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The sheet post-processing device according to claim 12, wherein the folding section includes a folding blade moving toward the folding position of the paper sheet bundle to fold the paper sheet bundle and the paper-made staple, and folding rollers facing the folding blade for nipping the paper sheet bundle, and the folding blade and the folding rollers are positioned to sandwich the paper sheet bundle so that when the folding blade moves toward the folding position of the paper sheet bundle to insert the paper sheet bundle between the folding rollers, the folding rollers nips the paper sheet bundle and folds the paper sheet bundle and the paper-made staple at the folding position.