US Patent Issued to PFU on July 22 for "Medium feed apparatus to put separation roller on hold until front end of medium passes separation part" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,555, issued on July 22, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium feed apparatus to put separation roller on hold until front end of medium passes separation part" was invented by Tomoyuki Niwata (Kahoku, Japan) and Shota Otsuka (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feed apparatus includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor to detect rotation of the separation roller, and a processor. The processor controls a motor to put the separation roller on hold from when starting the feed of the medium to when the second sensor detects a front end of the medium and generate the drive force from when the se...