ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,396, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Belt conveyor device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Yoshida (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A correction mechanism of the belt conveyor device, including a pair of inclined bearings and a pair of main-body guides, corrects meanders of a belt. The pair of inclined bearings include a pair of bearing portions, respectively, and a pair of inclined portions, respectively, that are inclined symmetrically with respect to an axial direction of the rollers. The pair of main-body guides are put into contact with the pai...