ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,047, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveyance device" was invented by Yoshimi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance device includes a frame, first and second rollers, a roller shaft, an urging member, and a bearing. The bearing includes a holding portion to slidably hold the roller shaft and held by the frame. The holding portion is deformable. As viewed in a rotational axis direction of the roller shaft, a direction in which the urging member urges the second roller is defined as a first direction, a direction that is perpendicular to the first direction is defined as...