US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 23 for "Image forming apparatus equipped with guide portion capable of guiding inclined manual feed tray from opening to interior of apparatus body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,773, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus equipped with guide portion capable of guiding inclined manual feed tray from opening to interior of apparatus body" was invented by Nobuhiro Fukuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a manual feed tray that is provided at an opening in a sidewall of an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and opens or closes the opening by an opening/closing operation; a guide portion that supports movement of the manual feed tray based on the opening/closing operation between a fi...