US Patent Issued to GLORY on Oct. 28 for "Aligner, sheet processing apparatus, and sheet width alignment method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,429, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).

"Aligner, sheet processing apparatus, and sheet width alignment method" was invented by Yoichi Takemura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aligner capable of aligning a sheet during transport in a direction orthogonal to a transport direction. The aligner includes: a transport path; a linear-motion transport unit that generates a drive force in a transport direction along the transport path to a sheet on the transport path; a left-skew transport unit that is disposed in a left direction with respect to the transport direction of the linear-mo...