US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 1 for "Sheet processing device, sheet output device, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,970, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing device, sheet output device, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Satoshi Kuno (Tokyo), Akira Kunieda (Tokyo), Yohsuke Haraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Horita (Kanagawa, Japan), Koju Kawakami (Tokyo), Yasunobu Kidoura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohsuke Akaishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing device includes a sheet storage and a sheet displacer. The sheet storage includes a first storage portion that includes a first wall that is one side wall of the sheet storage and a second wa...