US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 7 for "Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,143, issued on April 7, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masayuki Kakuta (Osaka, Japan) and Sachio Izumichi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a sheet storage portion, a lifting plate, a swing driving portion, a feeding portion, a sheet detection portion, and a control portion. The control portion arranges the lifting plate in a feeding position when a feeding job for the sheet starts, and arranges the lifting plate in a retracted position when the feeding job ends. At the end of the feeding job,...