US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 29 for "Image forming apparatus that allows sheet jam removal with a side cover open" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,902, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that allows sheet jam removal with a side cover open" was invented by Sachio Izumichi (Osaka, Japan), Masayuki Kakuta (Osaka, Japan) and Takuro Morita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms a toner image on an image carrier, a transfer portion, a fixing portion, a discharge portion, a pair of conveyance rollers, a sheet conveyance passage, a duplex conveyance passage, and a side cover. The side cover forms the outer surface of the duplex conveyan...