ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,255, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Sheet transport mechanism and sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Eiki Yamamoto (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sheet transport mechanism disposed between a feeding mechanism feeding out a sheet and an acceptance mechanism receiving the sheet. The sheet transport mechanism includes: a transport unit that transports the sheet; and a plurality of curl correction units each including a contact unit which comes into contact with the sheet that is transported by the transport unit. The plurality of curl correction units is disposed at po...