US 12,466,176 B2
Sheet laminator and image forming system incorporating the sheet laminator
Kazuki Shimodate, Kanagawa (JP); Keisuke Sugiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Yuichiro Kato, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Yoshida, Kanagawa (JP); Takaya Ochiai, Kanagawa (JP); Naoki Takai, Tokyo (JP); and Yosuke Saito, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Kazuki Shimodate, Kanagawa (JP); Keisuke Sugiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Yuichiro Kato, Kanagawa (JP); Shota Yoshida, Kanagawa (JP); Takaya Ochiai, Kanagawa (JP); Naoki Takai, Tokyo (JP); and Yosuke Saito, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/206,624.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-094308 (JP), filed on Jun. 10, 2022; and application No. 2023-062618 (JP), filed on Apr. 7, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2023/0398775 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B32B 41/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 38/00 (2006.01)
CPC B32B 41/00 (2013.01) [B32B 37/0053 (2013.01); B32B 38/145 (2013.01); B32B 2037/0069 (2013.01); B32B 2309/02 (2013.01); B32B 2309/04 (2013.01); B32B 2309/14 (2013.01); B32B 2317/12 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sheet laminator comprising:
a fuser pressurizer to thermally fix a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet;
a heater to heat the fuser pressurizer;
a driver to rotate the fuser pressurizer; and
circuitry configured to, in response to a pause of a rotation of the fuser pressurizer,
turn off a power supply to the heater; and
perform one of:
immediately stopping the fuser pressurizer; or
rotating the fuser pressurizer and stopping the fuser pressurizer after the rotation of the fuser pressurizer,
based on a state of the fuser pressurizer.