US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 12 for "Paper transport device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,643, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Paper transport device" was invented by Yasutaka Naito (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichi Imazu (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Miyoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouichi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masakatsu Eda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper transport device includes a transport mechanism that transports paper to which an image is transferred to a fixing device while sucking the paper and a switching mechanism that switches between suction regions in a width direction of th...