US Patent Issued to PFU on May 6 for "Medium conveying apparatus to set torque of motor according to position of medium tray" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,423, issued on May 6, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium conveying apparatus to set torque of motor according to position of medium tray" was invented by Hideyuki Okumura (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium conveying apparatus includes a motor, a medium tray, a roller, and a processor to control the motor so that the medium tray is located at a position at which the medium placed on the uppermost side of the media placed on the medium tray abuts on the roller each time a particular number of media of the media placed on the medium tray is conveyed, and detect a position of the placing surface. The pr...