Alignment control for post-processing apparatus and image forming system having the same

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PATENT NO 10046940
APP PUB NO 20150014913A1
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14326818

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The purpose of the present invention is to provide a post-processing apparatus capable of performing conveying to and storing at a predetermined stack tray without causing sheet jamming even when a sheet having larger size than a standard size is introduced. The present invention comprises a post-processing apparatus as a processing tray on which sheets conveyed in a predetermined conveyance direction are stacked into a bundle shape, an aligning device which aligns the sheets conveyed to the processing tray, a binding device which performs a binding process on the sheets aligned by the aligning device, and a controller which controls the aligning device so that a sheet is aligned at a position being apart from the binding device by a predetermined distance when the sheet conveyed to the processing tray has a predetermined size or larger.

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CANON FINETECH NISCA INC14-1 CHUO 1-CHOME MISATO-SHI SAITAMA 341-8527

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nishizawa, Seiji Yamanashi, JP 33 257
Obuchi, Yusuke Tokyo, JP 76 819
Takahashi, Masaya Yamanashi-ken, JP 150 696

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