US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 28 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,116, issued on July 28, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus" was invented by Takashi Fujiwara (Nagakute, Japan), Yoshihiro Okamoto (Komaki, Japan) and Shuhei Hatano (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a lower sheet guide including a first guide surface configured to guide a surface of a sheet, a discharge roller including two rollers configured to convey the sheet in a discharge direction, and a shaft extending in a width direction perpendicular to the discharge direction, a discharge tray configured to support the sheet, a first elastic piece...