ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,229, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feeding apparatus to be connected to image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiko Aono (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding apparatus is configured to feed a recording medium to an image forming apparatus. The sheet feeding apparatus includes a housing part that includes a first frame, a second frame, a feed unit, a first member, a weight unit fixed to the first member, and a supporting member that is configured to support the recording medium and is movable in a first direction from a first position at which the feed unit is able to fe...