US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Feb. 3 for "Sheet feeder capable of pulling out and feeding sheet from multi-purpose tray, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,046, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeder capable of pulling out and feeding sheet from multi-purpose tray, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Mizuguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Kei Wakayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeder includes: a multi-purpose tray; a guide roller provided at an end of the multi-purpose tray to come into contact a recording paper sheet protruding from the end of the multi-purpose tray; a spring member that supports the guide roller elastically and movably in upward and downward directions; and a pick-up roller that ...