US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 14 for "Document conveying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,683, issued on July 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Document conveying device" was invented by Ren Isoda (Osaka, Japan), Yoshitaka Tokoro (Osaka, Japan), Takafumi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan) and Shikitaro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document conveying device includes a sheet feeding tray, a sheet feeding mechanism, a sheet feeding tray lifting mechanism, a top plate, a fixed wall part, a lifting wall part, and a reflective optical sensor. The top plate is in contact with a lower surface of the document to be fed. The fixed wall part is provided extending downward from an upstr...