US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 7 for "Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,928, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeding device" was invented by Sachika Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes an air blower and circuitry. The air blower includes a first suction fan, and a second suction fan serially coupled to the first suction fan. The circuitry is to stop the first suction fan at a first timing, and stop the second suction fan at a second timing different from the first timing. An image forming apparatus includes the sheet f...