US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Drive transmission mechanism and recording apparatus including drive transmission mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,217, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Drive transmission mechanism and recording apparatus including drive transmission mechanism" was invented by Katsuaki Sukegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Takanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masakazu Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiki Hamanishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive transmission mechanism of a recording apparatus includes a first transmission member that is rotated by a drive force from a drive source, a second transmission member by the drive force from the first transmission member so as to be rotated in a first direction and in a second direc...