US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Jan. 27 for "Sheet discharge device, and sheet postprocessing device, image forming apparatus, plus image forming system each including the sheet discharge device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,895, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet discharge device, and sheet postprocessing device, image forming apparatus, plus image forming system each including the sheet discharge device" was invented by Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge port, a discharge member, a sheet discharge tray, a support member, a drive mech...