US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,553, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Koki Sato (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first driving roller and a second driving roller, a first steering portion, a second steering portion, a first driven roller, a second driven roller, and a separation mechanism configured to switch a state of the first driven roller and the second driven roller between an abutment state and a separation state. The separation mechanism includes a swing member configured to support the first driven roller and the ...