US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Aug. 19 for "Paper transport apparatus for transporting paper and image forming apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,514, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Paper transport apparatus for transporting paper and image forming apparatus including the same" was invented by Koji Tanio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a paper transport apparatus, a controller determines recording paper of a first transport path when a solenoid is deactivated, a paper detection member retreats in contact with the recording paper of the first transport path in a state in which a switching guide is switched to a first transport position, a driven rotation member rotates twice according to this retreat, and a se...