US Patent Issued to Canon Finetech Nisca on Sept. 9 for "Sheet binding apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,032, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sheet binding apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Toshiyuki Katsumata (Yamanashi, Japan), Junya Nakajima (Yamanashi, Japan), Masaya Takahashi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Mamoru Kubo (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide portion guides a binding unit in a first direction and a second direction. The guide portion includes a pair of first wall portions, a pair of second wall portions, a pair of third wall portions, and a restricting portion. A first protrusion is engageable between the pair of ...