US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 9 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus including sheet conveyance apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,089, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus including sheet conveyance apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takayuki Fukushima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a base unit, a sheet stacking portion, a feeding portion, an open/close member, a conveyance guide member, a protruding portion, and a fitted portion. The feeding portion feeds a sheet stacking portion stacked sheet. The open/close member includes an upper guide facing an upper surface of the fed sheet. The conveyance guide member includes a...