US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus having multiple driven rollers supported by guides in a curved conveyance path" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,804, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus having multiple driven rollers supported by guides in a curved conveyance path" was invented by Kenichi Tagami (Tokyo), Keisuke Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryosuke Oda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first nip portion to convey a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction, a second nip portion to convey the sheet, and a guide unit to form a curved conveyance path that curves with respect to the sheet conveyance direction. The guide unit includes a first guide, a second...