US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 8 for "Conveyance device, drying device, image forming apparatus, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,420, issued on July 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Conveyance device, drying device, image forming apparatus, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Kohki Asada (Tokyo), Kenji Nozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Genichiroh Kawamichi (Ibaraki, Japan), Takayuki Seki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuaki Kamihara (Tokyo) and Ryusaku Hida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance device includes a conveyance member, a guide, and a rotator. The conveyance member has a conveyance surface with a joint, the conveyance member to convey an object to be conveyed, with the object on the conveyance surface. The guide approa...