US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 28 for "Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,427, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device" was invented by Kazune Nakamura (Tokyo) and Junichi Sugita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes a pickup roller, a separator, a conveyor, and circuitry. The pickup roller contacts an uppermost sheet of sheets stacked on a sheet stacker and feed the uppermost sheet. The separator moves the pickup roller between a contact position at which the pickup roller is in contact with the uppermost sheet and a separation position at which the pickup r...