US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Jan. 27 for "Feeding device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,319, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kei Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Matsuzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kiyotaka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes a supply unit that supplies air between plural stacked media and that floats the media, a feeding unit that makes the media floated by the supply unit stick thereto and that feeds the media, a separating unit that supplies the air obliquely downward to a front surface side of a second medium positioned immediately below a first medium ...