ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,854, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet discharge apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Koichi Sekimizu (Shizuoka, Japan), Seiji Obata (Shizuoka, Japan), Hideki Ohta (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takehito Osada (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet discharge apparatus includes a stack portion, a reversing unit configured to reverse a reversing sheet, a support member configured to support a lower surface of the reversing sheet, a discharging unit configured to discharge a discharging sheet from the apparatus body, a pivotable member arranged above the stack portion, and a detector...