US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 14 for "Document transport device including stopper for prevention of falling of document and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,593, issued on April 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document transport device including stopper for prevention of falling of document and image forming apparatus" was invented by Chi Thi Tran (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document transport device includes an ejection tray on which documents ejected in a predetermined ejection direction are loaded and a stopper that prevents documents from falling from the ejection tray in the ejection direction. The stopper has a rotating shaft rotatably supported at the ejection tray in a direction intersecting the ejection direction, a contac...