ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,262, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Paper sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Takashi Wada (Inagi, Japan), Yuji Tanaka (Inagi, Japan), Satoshi Hayashi (Inagi, Japan), Hiroshi Miyazaki (Inagi, Japan), Mitsutaka Nishida (Inagi, Japan) and Atsushi Ando (Inagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper sheet handling apparatus includes: a first stopper that is in contact with a first partition at a lower limit position of the first partition; and a pressing portion that is fixed to a second partition and raises and lowers the first partition integrally with the second partition using a frictio...