US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 9 for "Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,447, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazutoshi Nakamura (Kuwana, Japan) and Tomonori Watanabe (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission gear is movable in an axial direction between a first position separated from an output gear and a second position coupled to the output gear in a state where the transmission gear engages with an input gear. The input gear is configured to: by rotating in a first direction by receiving driving force from a drive source, move the transmission gear from the first positio...