US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,468, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hajime Sugaya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Keita Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a drive source, a conveyance portion, a transmission mechanism configured to switch between a first state and a second state, a load detection portion configured to detect a load acting on the drive source, and a control portion configured to control the drive source and the transmission mechanism. The control portion is configured to change, on a basis of a detection resu...