ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,191, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ichiro Fukada (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes an accommodating unit, a feeding member, a regulating member, a member-to-be-detected, a detecting device, and a connecting member. The regulating member contacts the member-to-be-detected in a first region with respect to a feeding direction and is spaced from the member-to-be-detected through the connecting member in a second region different from the first region with respect to the feeding direction."
The patent was filed on...