ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,294, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet discharge device and sheet post-processing device including the same" was invented by Hironori Daigo (Osaka, Japan) and Shuji Osaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet discharge device includes a discharge portion, a sheet stacking tray, a pair of alignment members and a pair of width regulation members, a shift portion, and a control portion. The pair of alignment members include an arm portion formed of a rigid body, and an alignment portion formed of a flat-shaped elastic material and fixed to a swingable end of the arm ...