US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 24 for "Sheet feeder, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,089, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeder, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Hirofumi Horita (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Kunieda (Tokyo), Yohsuke Haraguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kuno (Tokyo), 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 feeder includes a sheet stacker, a sheet feed roller, a separation roller pair, and a lifter. Sheets are conveyed and stacked on the sheet stacker. The sheet feed roller feeds the sheets. The separation roller pair separates the she...