US Patent Issued to FUJITSU FRONTECH on March 31 for "Guide mechanism and paper sheet handling apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,968, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUJITSU FRONTECH Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Guide mechanism and paper sheet handling apparatus" was invented by Takashi Wada (Inagi, Japan), Yuji Tanaka (Inagi, Japan), Hiroshi Miyazaki (Inagi, Japan) and Atsushi Ando (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide mechanism including a guide that regulates a position of a paper sheet stacked includes a power transmitter that moves the guide to three or more positions by means of power obtained from a separate mechanism, which is different from the guide mechanism, and a switching drive that switches the power transmitter between a transmission stat...