US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Nov. 18 for "Sheet separation device, sheet laminator, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,164, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet separation device includes a sheet separation unit, a displacement detector, a displacement adjuster, and a controller. The sheet separation unit performs a sheet separating operation and a sheet inserting operation. The displacement detect...