	US 11,988,986 B2
	Image forming system having sheet laminator
Yasunobu Kidoura, Kanagawa (JP); Akira Kunieda, Tokyo (JP); Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa (JP); Hirofumi Horita, Kanagawa (JP); Satoshi Kuno, Tokyo (JP); Koju Kawakami, Tokyo (JP); and Ryohsuke Akaishi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Yasunobu Kidoura, Kanagawa (JP); Akira Kunieda, Tokyo (JP); Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa (JP); Hirofumi Horita, Kanagawa (JP); Satoshi Kuno, Tokyo (JP); Koju Kawakami, Tokyo (JP); and Ryohsuke Akaishi, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/157,424.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014014 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2022; and application No. 2022-181721 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0244164 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01); B41F 19/00 (2006.01); B41F 23/08 (2006.01); B41J 11/00 (2006.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/20 (2006.01)

CPC G03G 15/6573 (2013.01) [B41F 19/001 (2013.01); B41F 23/08 (2013.01); B41J 11/0015 (2013.01); B41M 7/0027 (2013.01); G03G 15/205 (2013.01); G03G 15/5004 (2013.01); G03G 15/55 (2013.01); G03G 15/6582 (2013.01); G03G 15/70 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00426 (2013.01)]

13 Claims

1. An image forming system comprising:

an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet being conveyed as an inner sheet;

a sheet laminator configured to perform a sheet laminating operation on a two-ply sheet in which the inner sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus is inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet,

the sheet laminator including

a heater to heat the two-ply sheet during the sheet laminating operation; and

circuitry configured to:

execute a control mode when a specific abnormal event occurs among a plurality of abnormal events that occurs in the image forming apparatus, where the control mode maintains heating by the heater of the sheet laminator for a predetermined time, and

interrupt the heating by the heater when an abnormal event other than the specific abnormal event occurs.