US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 20 for "Recording device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,303, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording device" was invented by Shingo Horita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Nishiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Masakazu Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukimichi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyohei Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiki Hamanishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device includes: a drive source; a driven portion having a driven gear; a drive transmission mechanism having a drive gear driven by the drive source and capable of swing between a first position where the drive gear is engaged with the driven gear and a second position where the drive gear is ...