ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,719, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Sheet feed device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Taro Takechi (Kunitachi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sheet feed device that sequentially feeds sheets from an uppermost sheet of a bundle of stacked sheets, the sheet feed device including: a bottom plate that supports a lower surface of the bundle of sheets; and an elastic member that is directly or indirectly disposed on the bottom plate and urges the bottom plate upward, in which the elastic member includes support force adjustment members that can adjust moment force applied t...