ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,928, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Transfer device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Konishi (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Suga (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device includes a belt unit having a transfer belt looped around tension rollers including a transfer roller, a unit support housing including a first support portion to support one end of the belt unit rotatably in an axial direction, and a second support portion to support another end of the belt unit rotatably in the axial direction, the unit support housing supporting the b...