US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Sheet discharger, and sheet post-processor, image forming apparatus, and image forming system provided with the sheet discharger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,701, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet discharger, and sheet post-processor, image forming apparatus, and image forming system provided with the sheet discharger" was invented by Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan), Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan) and Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet discharger includes a sheet discharge outlet, a discharge member, a sheet discharge tray, a sheet hold-down member, a drive portion, and a contro...