US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 25 for "Sheet separation device, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,632, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet separation device, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Sho Asano (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Furuhashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Takahashi (Tokyo), Yoshito Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Shinya Monma (Kanagawa, Japan), Joji Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohsuke Haraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet separation device separates a non-bonding portion of a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and bonded together at a bonding portion of the two-ply sheet. The shee...