ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,199, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Belt conveyor device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Daijiro Ueno (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of support rollers rotatably support a belt member. A first motor and a second motor each rotate one of the plurality of support rollers. In a normal mode, a normal control portion derives a load index value based on information on a load torque of the plurality of support rollers, and controls a second supply power supplied to the second motor based on power control data representing a correspondence between the ...