ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,399, issued on March 3, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Belt driving mechanism and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt driving mechanism rotates a rotating body provided in a rotating device around a transmission shaft, and includes a driving device provided adjacent to the rotating device and a bearing structure supporting the transmission shaft extending from the rotating device to the driving device through the support frame. The driving device includes a housing, a fixed frame, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a belt and ...