CN100526188C - Sheet post-process apparatus - Google Patents
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A sheet post-process apparatus has a standby tray for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby, a process tray arranged under the standby tray for stacking the sheet dropped from the standby tray or the sheet delivered from the image forming apparatus not through the standby tray, a matching mechanism for matching a lateral direction of the sheet stacked on the process tray by a lateral matching plate to form a sheet bundle, a post-process mechanism for post-processing the sheet bundle matched by the matching mechanism, and a delivery tray for delivering the sheet bundle post-processed by the post-process mechanism, in which the process tray and the standby tray are arranged so as to make a height of an upper end of the lateral matching plate of the process tray higher than a height of a lower end of the standby tray.
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The cross reference of related application
The application requires the preceence of Japanese patent application No.2004-285307 that submitted on September 29th, 2004 and the Japanese patent application No.2004-366450 that submitted on December 17th, 2004.The content of these Japanese patent applications is referred to herein, and combines with the application.
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The present invention relates to sheet post-process apparatus or similar device, the thin slice of this device to from image processing system, transferring out, paper etc. for example, carry out post-processing, this image processing system can be duplicator, chopping machine, multifunction peripheral set composites such as (hereinafter, " multifunction peripheral " being called " MFP ").
Background technology
Being used for a plurality of paper of printing by MFP are carried out bundling is known with the after-treatment device (collator) of fixing such processing (bookbinding is handled).Collator will be transported to process disk continuously from the paper of MFP output, by attachment means together with binding papers, and with the paper sheet delivery after these bookbindings in transfer dish.
Owing to comprise the process of binding in the last handling process of collator, so need delay mechanism to cushion the processing speed of MFP by attachment means.Therefore, the technology that is used to prolong transport path is known (with reference to the open No.6-99070 of Japanese Patent).For above-mentioned reasons, it is very difficult reducing device size fully.
In addition, Japanese Patent Application Publication is published among the No.10-279160 and is disclosed a kind of being used for the device of paper sheet delivery to stacked tray, but this device can not meet the demands.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of sheet post-process apparatus, wherein shortened the distance of processing mechanism, and reduced size from the paper sheet delivery unit to the post-processing that is used for image processing system.Another object of the present invention is to provide a kind of sheet post-process apparatus, and it has a kind of paper clamp that can prevent between waiting tray and lateral alignment plate, and can further improve the structure of lateral alignment function.
According to an aspect of the present invention, the sheet post-process apparatus that provides comprises: waiting tray, be used to place the paper of carrying from image processing system, and make it ready; Process disk is arranged in the below of waiting tray, be used to pile up the paper that drops from waiting tray or carry from image processing system, without the paper of waiting tray; Registration mechanism is used for making laterally aligning of the paper that is stacked on the process disk by the lateral alignment plate, thereby forms quires; Post-processing mechanism is used for the quires that aligns by registration mechanism is carried out post-processing; And transfer dish, be used to carry through post-processing mechanism and carry out quires after the post-processing, wherein process disk and waiting tray are arranged so that the height of upper end of lateral alignment plate of process disk is greater than the height of the lower end of waiting tray.
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Fig. 1 is the transparent view according to the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the birds-eye view according to the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of the waiting tray in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 4 is the view that is used for explaining according to vertical alignment in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention and quires conveying mechanism;
Fig. 5 is the view that is used for explaining according to the lateral alignment mechanism in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of the attachment means in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 7 A is the view that is used for explaining according to the relation between waiting tray in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention and the lateral alignment plate to Fig. 7 D;
Fig. 8 is used for explaining according to the view of advancing of first paper in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention between input roller and intake roller;
Fig. 9 is used for explaining according to the view of advancing of first paper in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention between intake roller and waiting tray;
Figure 10 is used for explaining according to the view of advancing of second paper in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention between intake roller and waiting tray;
Figure 11 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of waiting tray roller in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 12 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of waiting tray roller in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 13 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of initiatively dropping in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 14 is used for explaining according to the view of advancing of the 3rd paper in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention between intake roller and waiting tray;
Figure 15 is the view that is used for explaining according to the operation of attachment means in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;
Figure 16 is used for explaining according to the view of advancing of quires in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention between process disk and paper sheet delivery dish;
Figure 17 is the view that is used for explaining according in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention paper directly is transported to the paper sheet delivery dish from waiting tray; And
Figure 18 is used for explaining the view that carries out the operation of position change according to the paper sheet delivery dish in the sheet post-process apparatus of the embodiment of the invention.
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Now with reference to accompanying drawing, the preferred embodiments of the present invention that are applied to MFP are described below in greater detail.
Fig. 1 is the transparent view according to the after-treatment device of the embodiment of the invention, and Fig. 2 is the birds-eye view of this after-treatment device.After-treatment device 7 consists essentially of waiting tray 10, process disk 12, attachment means 14, the first paper sheet delivery dish 16 and the second paper sheet delivery dish 18.
Received by a pair of input roller 22 from the paper 20 of MFP output, flow to a pair of intake roller 24 again, and be transported to waiting tray 10 (at throughput direction X) from intake roller 24.Input roller 22 is driven by input roller motor 26.Input roller 22 comprises input roller 22a and following input roller 22b.Intake roller 24 comprises intake roller 24a and following intake roller 24b.
As shown in Figure 2, waiting tray 10 comprises, a pair of waiting tray parts 10a and 10b, and it can side travel, can receive paper when waiting tray parts 10a and 10b are in closure state.Paper under this state that aligns is provided with waiting tray roller 28.
But waiting tray roller 28 vertical shifting, and control by waiting tray roller drive source 30.Waiting tray roller 28 is rotated by waiting tray roller motor 32.
Paper when predetermined quantity, for example two pieces of paper are opened when being deposited on the waiting tray 10, as shown in Figure 3, make waiting tray parts 10a and 10b laterally open perpendicular to the direction of sheet transport direction X by waiting tray motor 34, paper 20 is just owing to its deadweight drops in the process disk 12.This operation is called " initiatively dropping ".
Be provided with paper path and be transported to waiting tray 10 and process disk 12 from MFP with the guiding paper.As shown in Figure 2, this paper path is made of paper path top board 36.
The paper of delivering to process disk 12 is carried out vertically (throughput direction of paper) and horizontal registration process.As shown in Figure 4, in vertical alignment procedure, paper aligns with retainer (block) 45 as a reference by vertical alignment top roll 38a that is driven by roller motor in vertical alignment 40 and the vertical alignment lower roll 38b that is driven by roller motor under vertical alignment 42.
In addition, when paper was transported to process disk 12, by roller motor 40 in vertical alignment, the top roll 38a that vertically aligns was transformed to following state, that is, top roll 38a is opened, thereby did not contact with the lower roll 38b that vertically aligns.Be provided with push pedal 44 auxiliary these registration process, this push pedal is driven by push pedal motor 46.
On the other hand, as shown in Figure 5, lateral alignment is that the effect by lateral alignment mechanism 47 and lateral alignment motor 48 makes the first and second lateral alignment plate 47a and 47b move along the direction of arrow V to carry out.
As shown in Figure 6, when the alignment of the paper of predetermined quantity with when leaving on the process disk 12, bind processing by attachment means 14.Attachment means 14 moves and positions by staple driver 49 with the direction of arrow U, handles thereby control this bookbinding.
As shown in Figure 8, the quires (paper volume also promptly) after bookbinding is handled is sent in the first and second paper sheet delivery dishes 16 and 18 by the conveying mechanism shown in Fig. 4 50.Make the first and second paper sheet delivery dishes 16 and 18 vertical shifting by paper sheet delivery disk drive 52, thereby select these paper sheet delivery dishes.
As shown in Figure 3, between the mating surfaces 66 of the lower surface 64 of waiting tray 10 and intake roller 24a and intake roller 24b, be provided with a step A.If there is not step A, the curling paper in bottom that flows to waiting tray 10 so can stop up intake roller 24b, thereby the unordered stacking of paperboard or paper takes place, thereby causes paper may drop in the process disk 12.It is exactly in order to prevent the generation of above-mentioned inconvenience that step A is set.
In addition, in this embodiment of the present invention, the relation of forming between the height of lower end of the height of upper end of the first and second lateral alignment plate 47a of lateral alignment mechanism 47 shown in Figure 5 and 47b and waiting tray 10 is set at default relation.
Especially, the embodiment shown in Fig. 7 A and Fig. 7 B has following structure, that is, the height Yh of the upper end of the first and second lateral alignment plate 47a and 47b is identical with the height Tb of the lower end of waiting tray.That is to say that in this embodiment, the upper end of lateral alignment plate 47a and 47b contacts with the lower end of waiting tray 10.
On the other hand, in the embodiment shown in Fig. 7 C and Fig. 7 D, the height Yh of the upper end of the first and second lateral alignment plate 47a ' and 47b ' is greater than the height Tb of the lower end of waiting tray 10.In this case, waiting tray 10 ' just becomes the comb teeth state, and when being in this structure, its comb teeth is meshed with the comb teeth of the upper end of lateral alignment plate 47a ' and 47b '.The effect of the paperboard of drawing up can further be provided like this.
Form very difficulty of the waiting tray of one and lateral alignment plate, traditional device has the gap usually between the upper end of the lower end of waiting tray and lateral alignment plate.Therefore,, make paper be in the paperboard state, and its alignment performance is also bad because paper is elevated to this gap or contacts with this gap.
In the embodiment shown in Fig. 7 A and Fig. 7 B, perhaps in the embodiment shown in Fig. 7 C and Fig. 7 D, the height Yh of the upper end of lateral alignment plate is identical with the height Tb of the lower end of waiting tray or greater than this height.Therefore, paper can not be clamped into as tradition between waiting tray and the lateral alignment plate, but can improve the final alignment performance of paper, can suppress the paperboard state of paper simultaneously.
Next, will to Figure 18 operation according to after-treatment device of the present invention be described with reference to Fig. 8.As shown in Figure 8, the paper 20 from MFP output is transported to intake roller 24 by input roller 22 as shown by arrows.
Next, as shown in Figure 9, first paper is stored on waiting tray 10 by intake roller 24.At this moment, waiting tray roller 28 descends along direction shown in the arrow, arrives the rear end (upstream side) 60 of waiting tray 10 with the aligned in position that will be provided to the paper 20 in the waiting tray 10.Afterwards, as shown in figure 10, waiting tray roller 28 rises to prepare to receive the second paper 20a.
As shown in figure 11, when dead work was finished, the second paper 20a was transported to waiting tray 10, and waiting tray roller 28 moves down, and alignd with the rear end 60 of waiting tray 10 in the position of paper.Like this, on waiting tray 10, formed the quires 20b that constitutes by two paper 20 and 20a.
Next, as shown in figure 12, waiting tray roller 28 rises, and waiting tray parts 10a and 10b open as shown in Figure 3, as shown in figure 13, carry out active and drop, thereby quires 20b is sent on the process disk 12.
Afterwards, as shown in figure 14, the 3rd paper and paper 20c subsequently directly are sent to process disk 12 from intake roller 24, and without waiting tray 10, thereby and are deposited in the second quires 20b and go up the quires 21 that forms the predetermined quantity paper.Then, vertically registration mechanism 38 and 47 runnings of lateral alignment structure make paper align at vertical and horizontal.
In this case, as shown in figure 14, the distance L that the rear end 60 of waiting tray 10 and the rear end 62 of process disk 12 are certain at interval in the horizontal, thus make the rear end of waiting tray 10 be positioned at the downstream of the rear end of process disk 12 (upstream side) 62.When forming such structure, quires 20b drops to process disk 12 from waiting tray 10 and will be easy to, and the alignment operation of vertical registration mechanism 38 and lateral alignment mechanism 47 also can be easy to.Therefore, can avoid paperboard or similarly thing generation.
Ideally, the placement of waiting tray 10 and process disk 12 is bevelleds.That is to say that rear end 60 and 62 is positioned at minimum position, the deadweight by paper 20 and quires 21 can make paper 20 and quires 21 can snap to rear end 60 and 62.
Next, as shown in figure 15, quires 21 is bound by attachment means 14.As shown in figure 16, quires 21 is sent to paper sheet delivery dish 16 by conveying mechanism 50, so promptly finishes post-processing.
It is emphasized that when not needing post-processing as Figure 17 and shown in Figure 180, paper directly is transported to paper sheet delivery dish 16 and does not need the middle process disk 12 of process from waiting tray 10.As shown in figure 17, the paper from MFP output is transported to paper sheet delivery dish 16 by input roller 22, paper feed roller 24 and waiting tray 10.Waiting tray roller 28 descends with conveyance of sheets 20.As shown in figure 18, make paper sheet delivery dish 16 rise a little, thereby can receive the paper of supplying with by waiting tray 10 by paper sheet delivery disk drive 52.
The paper post-processing has been described in this embodiment.Yet post-processing material according to the present invention is not limited in paper, and can be OHP or other laminar recording mediums, and here system is referred to as paper.
According to post-processing of the present invention for example can be the bookbinding processing of piling up the paper of a plurality of printings and fixing these paper.But the present invention is not limited to this.
In the description of the foregoing description, the situation that the present invention is applied to MFP has been described.But the present invention is not limited to this, but can be applied to the common post-processing by the paper of image processing system printing.
The above is the preferred embodiments of the present invention only, is not limited to the present invention, and for a person skilled in the art, the present invention can have various changes and variation.All interior any modifications of doing, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention in the spirit and principles in the present invention.
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1. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Waiting tray is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready, and comprises transversely movable a pair of parts;
Process disk is arranged in the below of described waiting tray, is used to pile up described a pair of parts are laterally opened and drop from described waiting tray paper or transports and without the paper of described waiting tray from described image processing system;
Registration mechanism, thus be used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described process disk form quires by the lateral alignment plate;
Post-processing mechanism is used for the quires by described registration mechanism alignment is carried out post-processing; And
Transfer dish is used to carry the described post-processing of process mechanism to carry out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus has described process disk and described waiting tray and is arranged so that the height of upper end of described lateral alignment plate of described process disk is more than or equal to the structure of the height of the lower end of described waiting tray.
2. sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 1 wherein, also comprises the waiting tray roller, and described waiting tray roller moves by vertical direction, and alignment is provided to the paper of described waiting tray.
3. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Waiting tray is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready;
Process disk is arranged in the below of described waiting tray, is used to pile up the paper that drops from described waiting tray or transports and without the paper of described waiting tray from described image processing system;
Registration mechanism, thus be used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described process disk form quires by the lateral alignment plate;
Post-processing mechanism is used for the quires by described registration mechanism alignment is carried out post-processing; And
Transfer dish is used to carry the described post-processing of process mechanism to carry out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus has the height of upper end of described lateral alignment plate that described process disk and described waiting tray be arranged so that described process disk greater than the attach structure of the lower end of described waiting tray, and mesh with the comb teeth state upper end of the lower end of described waiting tray and described lateral alignment plate.
4. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Waiting tray is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready;
Process disk is arranged in the below of described waiting tray, is used to pile up the paper that drops from described waiting tray or transports and without the paper of described waiting tray from described image processing system;
Registration mechanism, thus be used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described process disk form quires by the lateral alignment plate;
Post-processing mechanism is used for the quires by described registration mechanism alignment is carried out post-processing; And
Transfer dish is used to carry the described post-processing of process mechanism to carry out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus have described process disk and described waiting tray be arranged so that described process disk described lateral alignment plate the upper end height basically with the identical structure of height of the lower end of described waiting tray.
5. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Paper is waited for device, is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready, and comprises transversely movable a pair of parts;
Paper sheet stacking apparatus, be arranged in described paper and wait for the below of device, be used to pile up that described a pair of parts are laterally opened and wait for paper that device drops or transport and wait for the paper of device without described paper from described image processing system from described paper;
The paper aligning apparatus is used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described paper sheet stacking apparatus by the lateral alignment plate, thereby forms quires;
After-treatment device is used for the quires by described paper aligning apparatus alignment is carried out post-processing, and
The quires feedway is used to carry by described after-treatment device and carries out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus has described paper sheet stacking apparatus and described paper and waits for that device is arranged so that the height of upper end of the described lateral alignment plate of described paper sheet stacking apparatus waits for the structure of height of the lower end of device more than or equal to described paper.
6. sheet post-process apparatus according to claim 5 wherein, also comprises the waiting tray roller, and described waiting tray roller moves by vertical direction, and alignment is provided to the paper of described waiting tray.
7. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Paper is waited for device, is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready;
Paper sheet stacking apparatus is arranged in the below that described paper is waited for device, is used to pile up from described paper wait for paper that device drops or transport and wait for the paper of device without described paper from described image processing system;
The paper aligning apparatus is used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described paper sheet stacking apparatus by the lateral alignment plate, thereby forms quires;
After-treatment device is used for the quires by described paper aligning apparatus alignment is carried out post-processing, and
The quires feedway is used to carry by described after-treatment device and carries out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus has described paper sheet stacking apparatus and described paper and waits for that device is arranged so that the height of upper end of the described lateral alignment plate of described paper sheet stacking apparatus waits for the structure of height of the lower end of device greater than described paper, and described paper waits for that the lower end of device and the upper end of described lateral alignment plate mesh with the comb teeth state.
8. sheet post-process apparatus comprises:
Paper is waited for device, is used to place the paper that transports from image processing system, makes it ready;
Paper sheet stacking apparatus is arranged in the below that described paper is waited for device, is used to pile up from described paper wait for paper that device drops or transport and wait for the paper of device without described paper from described image processing system;
The paper aligning apparatus is used for making the paper lateral alignment that is stacked on the described paper sheet stacking apparatus by the lateral alignment plate, thereby forms quires;
After-treatment device is used for the quires by described paper aligning apparatus alignment is carried out post-processing, and
The quires feedway is used to carry by described after-treatment device and carries out post-processing quires afterwards,
Described sheet post-process apparatus has described paper sheet stacking apparatus and described paper and waits for that device is arranged so that the upper end of the described lateral alignment plate of described paper sheet stacking apparatus waits for the identical structure of height of the lower end of device highly basically with described paper.
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