US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 22 for "Sheet conveying apparatus and sheet post-processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,977, issued on April 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet conveying apparatus and sheet post-processing apparatus" was invented by Tadahisa Kishimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Murata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying apparatus (20) includes a first sheet conveyance passage (3), a second sheet conveyance passage (5), a pair of feed rollers (3r1), a first pair of conveyance rollers (50), and a contact-release mechanism (60). The second sheet conveyance passage (5) branches from a branch section (31) on the first sheet conveyance passage (3). The first pair of conveyance ro...