ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,537, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveying apparatus and image reading apparatus" was invented by Masato Furukawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying apparatus includes a tray having a plurality of sheets, a feeder to successively convey sheets stacked on the tray, a controller, and a double-feed sensor to detect double feed when the feeder conveys a plurality of sheets in an overlapping manner. When a double-feed length, which corresponds to a length, in a conveyance direction of the sheet, of a region in which the double feed has been detected by the double-feed sensor, is ...