US 12,105,465 B1
Sheet processing apparatus, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system
Wataru Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Tomohiro Furuhashi, Kanagawa (JP); Sho Asano, Kanagawa (JP); Yoshito Suzuki, Chiba (JP); Shinya Monma, Kanagawa (JP); Johji Akiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Yohsuke Haraguchi, Kanagawa (JP); and Wataru Nozaki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,848.
Application 17/960,848 is a continuation of application No. 17/313,153, filed on May 6, 2021, granted, now 11,500,323.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-084775 (JP), filed on May 13, 2020; and application No. 2020-086162 (JP), filed on May 15, 2020.
Int. Cl. G03G 21/16 (2006.01); B32B 37/14 (2006.01); B32B 37/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1638 (2013.01) [B32B 37/142 (2013.01); B32B 37/185 (2013.01); G03G 15/6529 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet processing apparatus to sandwich a sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet; the sheet processing apparatus comprising:
a first conveyor to convey the sheet media;
a second conveyor to convey the two-ply sheet; and
circuitry configured to control the first conveyor and the second conveyor to perform:
a multiple insertion mode to insert the sheet media arranged along a conveyance direction of the sheet media into the two-ply sheet, and
adjust a relative position of each of the sheet media with respect to the two-ply sheet.