US 11,807,482 B2
Sheet alignment apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming system
Hiroharu Tsuji, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/146,496.
Application 18/146,496 is a division of application No. 17/365,247, filed on Jul. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,565,903.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-117003 (JP), filed on Jul. 7, 2020; and application No. 2021-073269 (JP), filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0131520 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B65H 31/34 (2006.01); B65H 29/52 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 29/52 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet alignment apparatus comprising:
a supporting portion configured to support a sheet;
an alignment member configured to abut an end portion in a first direction of the sheet supported by the supporting portion and align a position of the sheet in the first direction;
a first moving unit configured to move the alignment member in the first direction;
a push-out member configured to abut an end portion of the sheet in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and push out the sheet from the supporting portion in the second direction; and
a second moving unit configured to move the push-out member in the second direction,
wherein one of the first moving unit and the second moving unit is disposed below the supporting portion, and
wherein another of the first moving unit and the second moving unit is disposed above the supporting portion.