US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,576, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takayuki Fukushima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a support unit including a guide surface, a roller unit including a roller member and a roller shaft supporting the roller member, a drive shaft provided in the support unit, a coupling configured to connect the drive shaft and the roller shaft, and a motor configured to supply a drive force to the roller shaft via the drive shaft and the coupling. A rib is disposed on an out...