US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 29 for "Transfer unit and image forming apparatus including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,594, issued on April 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transfer unit and image forming apparatus including same" was invented by Kenichiro Kawasaki (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhisa Hirahara (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Kainuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer unit includes a seamless transfer belt, a plurality of transfer rollers, a backup roller, a plurality of pairs of first bearing holders, a pair of second bearing holders and a pair of sliders. Each of the sliders is reciprocated such that each of the first bearing holders slides on the corresponding one of the first step ribs to be ...