ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,698, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON FINETECH NISCA INC. (Misato, Japan).
"Sheet conveying apparatus" was invented by Toshiyuki Iwata (Tokyo), Tsukasa Kondo (Minamikoma-gun, Japan), Tetsuya Kawasaki (Minamikoma-gun, Japan) and Yuuki Kubota (Minamikoma-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a configuration capable of stably performing conveyance of sheets, a pair of regulation guides are capable of guiding opposite end edges in the sheet width direction Y of a sheet S conveyed by a conveyance belt and spheres, while being nipped. Further, the pair of regulation guides are capable of shifting to guide ...