US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 21 for "Document sheet conveying device capable of lifting up and down discharge outlet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,405, issued on April 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document sheet conveying device capable of lifting up and down discharge outlet" was invented by Takafumi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Tokoro (Osaka, Japan), Ren Isoda (Osaka, Japan) and Hirofumi Hagihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document sheet conveying device includes a guide portion, a swinging shaft, a sheet member, and a biasing member. The guide portion guides a document sheet to the discharge tray. The swinging shaft is provided at an upstream end of the guide portion in a conveyance direction of the document ...