US Patent Issued to JAPAN CASH MACHINE on July 28 for "Direction switching and transferring device of paper sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,111, issued on July 28, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Direction switching and transferring device of paper sheet" was invented by Fumihide Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Kazuya Uemura (Osaka, Japan) and Koji Yoshitake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a stacker unit SU that includes a transport body 500 moving along a transport route 400 while retaining paper sheets in an upright state and stopped at a paper sheet extraction position PP, and clamping means 812 and 803 clamping the paper sheets on the transport body, and that switches the direction of the paper sheets...