US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 29 for "Post-processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and rotation paddle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,292, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Post-processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and rotation paddle" was invented by Ryuji Sato (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processing apparatus that rotates a rotation paddle in which a fin having flexibility is cantilevered by a holder to apply a conveying force along a rotation direction to a sheet to align the sheet, wherein the holder includes a recess in which a peripheral surface part from a support position of the fin to an upstream side in the rotation direction is recessed from a circumscribed circle of the holder, and when ...