ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,161, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Aoki (Chiba, Japan), Takahiro Kobayashi (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiaki Hara (Chiba, Japan), Shutaro Saito (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kokubo (Tokyo), Jun Kawakita (Chiba, Japan) and Yushi Sadamitsu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus configured to convey a sheet includes a casing, a belt unit, an accommodating unit, a moving unit, and a rotary member. The accommodating unit and the belt unit move to a first state, a second state, and a third state. In the first state, the accommodati...