US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 3 for "Drive transmission device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,167, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Drive transmission device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kimiharu Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Shinya Takai (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Morisaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takehisa Shimazu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Kitaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive transmission device includes a plurality of drive transmission units and a heat-resistant member. The drive transmission units include a plurality of drive transmission mechanisms to transmit drive force from a plurality of drive sources to a dri...