ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,112, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideki Hayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Jianxun Xie (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a sheet conveying apparatus to which a sheet conveying module is separably connected. The sheet conveying module is provided with a conveying unit including a conveying guide. The conveying unit can be pulled out in a direction perpendicular to a sheet conveying direction. The sheet conveying apparatus has a passing-over unit for passing the sheet over between the sheet conveying module and the sheet...