US 11,718,081 B2
Sheet processing device for adjusting projection of bonded portion, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system
Wataru Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Tomohiro Furuhashi, Kanagawa (JP); Michitaka Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Tomomichi Hoshino, Kanagawa (JP); Fumiharu Yoneyama, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Kanagawa (JP); Makoto Hidaka, Tokyo (JP); Koki Sakano, Kanagawa (JP); Akira Kunieda, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); Takuya Morinaga, Tokyo (JP); and Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Wataru Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Tomohiro Furuhashi, Kanagawa (JP); Michitaka Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Tomomichi Hoshino, Kanagawa (JP); Fumiharu Yoneyama, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuyoshi Matsuo, Kanagawa (JP); Makoto Hidaka, Tokyo (JP); Koki Sakano, Kanagawa (JP); Akira Kunieda, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); Takuya Morinaga, Tokyo (JP); and Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Feb. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/665,864.
Application 17/665,864 is a continuation of application No. 16/842,941, filed on Apr. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,273,629.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-083905 (JP), filed on Apr. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153008 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/14 (2006.01); B65H 3/66 (2006.01); B32B 37/18 (2006.01); B65H 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC B32B 37/0046 (2013.01) [B32B 37/142 (2013.01); B32B 37/18 (2013.01); B65H 3/0638 (2013.01); B65H 3/66 (2013.01); B32B 2037/0061 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet processing device configured to separate a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet and insert at least one sheet medium in the two-ply sheet, the sheet processing device comprising:
a first conveyor configured to convey the two-ply sheet in a first direction and a second direction reverse to the first direction, the first conveyor including a pair of rotators pressed against each other; and
control circuitry configured to:
control the first conveyor to project a bonded portion of the two-ply sheet from a nip of the first conveyor, and
adjust an amount of projection of the bonded portion from the nip.