US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 8 for "Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,156, issued on July 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same" was invented by Ryohhei Ohya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a curved conveyance passage, a conveyance sensor, and processing circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The sheet is conveyed by the conveyor along the curved conveyance passage. The conveyance sensor detects a presence of the sheet and is disposed at a curved position of the conveyance passage. The processing circuitry determines clogging of the sheet from an output resu...