ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,987, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet detection device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazusa Morimoto (Chiba, Japan), Takahiro Oonuma (Chiba, Japan), Hiroki Sato (Ibaraki, Japan), Norio Negishi (Tokyo) and Katsuhide Koga (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of a sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, and a moving unit configured to move th...