Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in which program is recorded

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10377165-B2
Application number	US-201715841511-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2017
Priority date	Dec 28, 2016
Publication date	Aug 13, 2019
Grant date	Aug 13, 2019

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes: a first apparatus configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member; a second apparatus, including a stacking part on which a plurality of sheets punched by the first apparatus is stacked, and configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of the plurality of sheets; a notification unit notifying information; and a control unit configured, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in the stacking part, to cancel the job, and to cause the notification unit to notify that a thickness of a sheet stack stacked on the stacking part exceeds a thickness that enables to be bound by the binding member used by the second apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a first apparatus configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member;
a second apparatus, including a stacking part on which a plurality of sheets punched by the first apparatus is stacked, and configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of the plurality of sheets;
a notification unit notifying information; and
a control unit configured, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in the stacking part, to cancel the job, and to cause the notification unit to notify that a thickness of a sheet stack stacked on the stacking part exceeds a thickness that enables to be bound by the binding member used by the second apparatus.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit cancels the job, after notification that the jam has occurred in the stacking part.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit cancels the job, when the control unit determines that a last sheet that is to be stacked on the stacking part is not stacked yet after the jam is eliminated.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein bookbinding by the second apparatus is ring bookbinding that includes stacking the sheets so that the punched holes of the sheets are mounted onto protrusions of the binding member, and thereafter, folding the binding member in a ring shape to bind the sheets.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein the binding member is a material that has protruded portions of predetermined lengths continuously formed at predetermined intervals, and is capable of being processed into a ring shape by folding the protruded portions.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the binding member is a wire.

7. A method for controlling an image forming apparatus which has a notification unit notifying information, and to which a first apparatus and a second apparatus are connectable, wherein the first apparatus is configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member, and the second apparatus is configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of a plurality of sheets that are punched by the first apparatus,
the method comprising:
controlling, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in a stacking part of the second apparatus, to cancel the job, and thereafter to cause the notification unit to notify that a thickness of a sheet stack stacked on the stacking part of the second apparatus exceeds a thickness that enables to be bound by the binding member used by the second apparatus.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium recording a program of an image forming apparatus which has a notification unit notifying information, and to which a first apparatus and a second apparatus are connectable, wherein the first apparatus is configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member, and the second apparatus is configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of a plurality of sheets punched by the first apparatus,
wherein the program causes a computer to function as a control unit configured, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in a stacking part of the second apparatus, to cancel the job, and thereafter to cause the notification unit to notify that a thickness of a sheet stack stacked on the stacking part of the second apparatus exceeds a thickness that enables to be bound by the binding member used by the second apparatus.

9. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a first apparatus configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member;
a second apparatus, including a stacking part on which a plurality of sheets punched by the first apparatus is stacked, and configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a first binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of the plurality of sheets;
a notification unit notifying information; and
a control unit configured, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in the stacking part, if the first binding member is replaceable with a second binding member that is capable of binding a sheet stack designated in the job, to cause the notification unit to display a screen for prompting replacement with the second binding member,
wherein the control unit restarts the job without cancelling the job in a case where the jam is eliminated and the first binding member is replaced with the second binding member, and cancels the job in a case where the jam is eliminated and the first binding member is not replaced with the second binding member.

10. An image forming apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein a number of sheets that can be bookbound by the second binding member is larger than a number of sheets that can be bookbound by the first binding member.

11. The image forming apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein bookbinding by the second apparatus is ring bookbinding that includes stacking the sheets so that the punched holes of the sheets are mounted onto protrusions of the first binding member or the second binding member, and thereafter, folding a corresponding binding member in a ring shape to bind the sheets.

12. The image forming apparatus according to claim 11 ,
wherein each of the first binding member and the second binding member is a material that has protruded portions of predetermined lengths continuously formed at predetermined intervals, and is capable of being processed into a ring shape by folding the protruded portions.

13. The image forming apparatus according to claim 12 ,
wherein each of the first binding member and the second binding member is a wire.

14. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a first apparatus configured to perform punching on a sheet by using a punching member;
a second apparatus, including a stacking part on which a plurality of sheets punched by the first apparatus is stacked, and configured to perform binding so as to obtain a bookbinding article in which a binding member penetrates in a ring shape through punched holes of the plurality of sheets;
a notification unit notifying information; and
a control unit configured, in a case of starting a job using the first apparatus and the second apparatus and determining that a jam has occurred in the stacking part, to cause the notification unit to display a screen for prompting a replacement of a sheet to be used in the job with a thinner sheet,
wherein the control unit restarts the job without cancelling the job in a case where the jam is eliminated and the sheet to be used in the job is replaced with the thinner sheet, and cancels the job in a case where the jam is eliminated and the sheet to be used in the job is not replaced with the thinner sheet.

15. The image forming apparatus according to claim 14 ,
wherein bookbinding by the second apparatus is ring bookbinding that includes stacking the sheets so that the punched holes of the sheets are mounted onto protrusions of the binding member, and thereafter,

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Iida Toshihiko
• Kanamoto Yoshiji

Classifications

• G06F3/121

  Facilitating exception or error detection and recovery, e.g. fault, media or consumables depleted · CPC title

• B42B5/123

  Devices for assembling the elements with the stack of sheets · CPC title

• B65H2511/13

  Thickness · CPC title

• B65H2220/03

  indicating an entity which is measured, estimated, evaluated, calculated or determined but which does not constitute an entity which is adjusted or changed by the control process per se · CPC title

• B65H43/02

  detecting, or responding to, absence of articles (B65H43/08 takes precedence) · CPC title