US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 23 for "Feeding device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,064, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kitazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenta Ogata (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouhei Yukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaru Okutsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Fujikura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Onoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device includes: a supply unit that supplies air to a space between a plurality of loaded media to float the media; a feeding unit that feeds out the media floated by the supply unit; and a detection unit that detects whether or not a medium bundle i...