US Patent Issued to PFU on July 8 for "Medium conveying apparatus detecting bound medium based on lift of medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,423, issued on July 8, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveying apparatus detecting bound medium based on lift of medium" was invented by Takumi Ito (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes a pick roller feeding a medium, a separation roller placed on a downstream side of the pick roller in a conveying direction of a medium, an arrival detection sensor placed on a downstream side of the separation roller in the conveying direction and detecting arrival of a medium, a lift sensor detecting a lift of a medium between an upstream side of a roller nip of the pick roller and a d...