US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Sheet feeding device that sequentially draws out and feeds sheets from sheet tray, and image forming apparatus including same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,129, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeding device that sequentially draws out and feeds sheets from sheet tray, and image forming apparatus including same" was invented by Keisuke Mizuguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sheet feeding device, when the rotating member is set to a prespecified rotation angle, a first follower makes contact with a concave portion formed on a circumferential surface of a first cam, thereby retaining a first support member at a standby position, and a second follower makes contact with a concave portion formed on a circumferentia...