US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on June 3 for "Feed mechanism, image forming apparatus, and feed tray" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,527, issued on June 3, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Feed mechanism, image forming apparatus, and feed tray" was invented by Kengo Noda (Inazawa, Japan), Gakuro Kanazawa (Toyokawa, Japan), Satoshi Miyase (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuki Tsujimura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed mechanism includes: a feed tray accommodating a roll body, a first sheet-shaped medium being rolled in a roll shape as the roll body, the feed tray including: a first accommodation portion accommodating the roll body; a pair of side walls respectively provided on both sides of the first accommodation portion in an axial direc...