US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 3 for "Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,525, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeding device" was invented by Yuka Kurusu (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Ohtsuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Hashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisayoshi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunori Konno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a sheet tray, an extended bottom plate, a casing, and a support. The sheet tray includes a bottom plate and feeds a sheet placed on the bottom plate, toward an image forming apparatus. The extended bottom plate extends outward from t...