US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 15 for "Document reading apparatus that permits or inhibits transport of document through horizontal transport route, depending on status of discharge tray, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,609, issued on April 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document reading apparatus that permits or inhibits transport of document through horizontal transport route, depending on status of discharge tray, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yukio Tanisaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document reading apparatus includes a first discharge tray that assumes a closed state or an open state, by pivoting about a first pivotal shaft, a first transport route linearly extending from a document tray to the first discharge tray, a first reading device that reads an image of the documen...