US 11,891,260 B2
Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming system having the same
Hiroyuki Yamada, Yamanashi (JP); and Yasumichi Okahisa, Yamanashi (JP)
Assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc., Misato Saitama (JP)
Filed by Hiroyuki Yamada, Yamanashi (JP); and Yasumichi Okahisa, Yamanashi (JP)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/876,970.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-125238 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0030790 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 37/04 (2006.01); B65H 31/10 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 37/04 (2013.01) [B65H 31/10 (2013.01); G03G 15/6541 (2013.01); G03G 15/6552 (2013.01); B65H 2402/441 (2013.01); B65H 2801/09 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00793 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet post-processing apparatus provided in an in-body space between a reading unit that reads an image of a document and an image forming unit configured to form the image read by the reading unit on a sheet, the sheet post-processing apparatus comprising:
an introducing port which introduces the sheet on which the image is formed;
a conveying device configured to convey, in a conveying direction, the sheet introduced from the introducing port;
a processing tray on which the sheet conveyed by the conveying device is placed;
a manual inserting unit provided at a position different from the processing tray and capable of manually inserting a sheet from the outside of the sheet post-processing apparatus;
a binding processing device configured to perform a binding process on the sheet placed on the processing tray or the sheet inserted into the manual inserting unit;
a slide mechanism capable of pulling out, in the conveying direction, the sheet post-processing apparatus from a fixing position where the sheet post-processing apparatus is fixed in the in-body space;
a fixing unit configured to fix the slide mechanism into the in-body space and to fix the slide mechanism to a conveying position where the sheet is conveyed to the conveying device; and
a release lever provided at a position overlapping with a placing range of the sheet set on the manual inserting unit and configured to release the fixing unit.