US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,584, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet stacking apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Akamatsu (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet stacking apparatus includes a stacking portion, a conveyance member, an abutment portion, a belt member having elasticity and configured to move the sheet toward the abutment portion, a driving source, and a controller configured to control the driving source such that (i) the belt member rotates at a first speed after the belt member contacts the current sheet and before the leading edge of the current sheet abuts against the abutment porti...