US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Storage, sheet stacking apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,578, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Storage, sheet stacking apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuki Tada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage to store a sheet to be conveyed by a conveyance unit includes a regulating member to regulate a sheet edge in the storage and a switching device to switch a regulating member state to a first state where a regulating member position is changeable and to a second state where the position is fixed. The storage is to be held by a main body of a sheet stacking apparatus and is moveable to a closed and to a pullout position. The regul...