Sheet binding apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same

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PATENT NO 10048636
APP PUB NO 20170160691A1
SERIAL NO

15440850

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A sheet binding apparatus includes a stack portion on which sheets are stacked; a manual setting portion, different from the stack portion, to which sheets are manually set from an outside of the apparatus; a first binding portion binding sheets stacked on the stack portion and set on the manual setting portion, the first binding portion being movable to a first position where sheets on the stack portion are bound and to a second position, different from the first position where sheets set on the manual setting portion are bound; and a second binding portion binding sheets stacked on the stack portion, the second binding portion being different from the first binding portion. The first position is set, with respect to a moving direction of the first binding portion, between the second position and a third position where the second binding portion binds sheets stacked on the stack portion.

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CANON FINETECH NISCA INC14-1 CHUO 1-CHOME MISATO-SHI SAITAMA 341-8527

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Abe, Hideto Tokyo, JP 43 265
Nishizawa, Seiji Yamanashi-ken, JP 33 257
Obuchi, Yusuke Tokyo, JP 76 819
Takahashi, Masaya Yamanashi-ken, JP 150 696

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