US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 29 for "Sheet feeding cassette and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,286, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeding cassette and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akira Ishii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding cassette (21) includes a body part (31), a placement plate (33) disposed on a bottom plate (31a) of the body part (31), a shaft (61) extending along a width direction, a lift plate (35) configured to be turned around the shaft (61) to lift and lower a downstream end portion of the placement plate (33), and a pair of side cursors (37F, 37R). Both end portions of the shaft (61) are rotatably supported by the b...