ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,063, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet conveying apparatus" was invented by Tadahisa Kishimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Murata (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coupling unit (UC) includes a shaft, a shaft holder and a shaft fitting plate. The shaft holder includes a first coupling portion, and a first unit includes a second coupling portion. When the first unit is mounted in an apparatus body and coupled to a second unit, first, with an other-end portion (UC2) swung upward, the first unit is mounted in the apparatus body and then, with the other-end portion (UC2...