US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 14 for "Document sheet conveying device, image reading apparatus, and multifunction peripheral capable of housing discharge tray" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,586, issued on April 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document sheet conveying device, image reading apparatus, and multifunction peripheral capable of housing discharge tray" was invented by Yoshitaka Tokoro (Osaka, Japan), Takafumi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Hirofumi Hagihara (Osaka, Japan) and Ren Isoda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The document sheet conveying device includes a second discharge tray, and a switching portion. The second discharge tray rotates between a use posture which allows loading of a document sheet on the second discharge tray and a storage posture in which t...