US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Sheet feeding device that feeds sheet from multi tray, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,764, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeding device that feeds sheet from multi tray, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Koki Yokoyama (Osaka, Japan) and Kei Wakayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sheet feeding device, when a multi tray is overlaid on a sheet cassette, a rib on the front-end portion of the multi tray is fitted in an engaging slit in the upper edge of a sidewall of the sheet cassette, and protrudes from the sidewall of the sheet cassette. When the sheet cassette and the multi tray overlaid thereon are inserted into an apparatus main ...