US Patent Issued to PFU on March 18 for "Medium conveying apparatus for controlling current limit value of DC motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,373, issued on March 18, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveying apparatus for controlling current limit value of DC motor" was invented by Yuta Arai (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveyance roller to convey a medium, an imaging device to image the medium, a DC motor to drive the conveyance roller, a processor to detect that a front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, set a current limit value of the DC motor to a first limit value until the front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imag...