US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus including same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,691, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a cassette storage part, a sheet feed cassette, a pickup roller, a feed roller, a retard roller, a retaining member, and a pushing mechanism. The pushing mechanism pushes the retaining member so that the retard roller is pushed to contact with the feed roller. The pushing mechanism includes a pushing member that contacts and pushes the retaining member, and a biasing member tha...