Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming device with plate partioning reverse path and buffer unit
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Application No.: US14855801Application Date: 2015-09-16
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Publication No.: US09609158B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Masaki Matsui , Naoya Nakayama , Riichi Hama , Hidehito Kishi , Ryo Morita
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2014-187472 20140916
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; H04N1/32

Abstract:
An image forming device having a printer unit, a post-processing unit, and an eject tray. The printer unit forms images on recording sheets, and the post-processing unit performs processing on a recoding sheet stack composed of one or more recording sheets output from the printer unit before the recording sheet stack is ejected onto the eject tray. The image forming device includes: a buffer unit that, while a first recording sheet resides in the post-processing unit for the post-processing, holds a second recording sheet therein, the second recording sheet output from the printer unit subsequent to the first recording sheet; and a reverse path that reverses recording sheets when the image forming device performs duplex printing. In a plan view of the image forming device taken along a vertical direction, the post-processing unit, the buffer unit, and the reverse path at least partially cover one another.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160080595A1 IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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