ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,913, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus, sheet conveying apparatus, and sheet tension adjustment method" was invented by Kota Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichi Ochi (Shizuoka, Japan), Takuma Nakamura (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Yanagi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying apparatus includes a supply unit for supplying a sheet; a switching unit disposed on a conveyance path of the sheet and configured to switch between a state of nipping the sheet supplied by the supply unit and a state of releasing the nipping of the sheet; a tension appl...