US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Jan. 27 for "Medium transport device and medium transport method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,318, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device and medium transport method" was invented by Ryoichi Morisawa (Shiojiri, Japan) and Masashi Ogawa (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a feed roller, a separation roller that nips the medium P together with the feed roller and separates a plurality of stacked medium, a drive section that generates a driving force, a one way clutch section provided in a transmission path for transmitting the driving force to the feed roller, wherein the one way clutch section is configured to switch between an allow...