US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 5 for "Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,638, issued on May 5, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a lift plate, a feeding portion, a lifting member lifting the lift plate, a motor coupled to a pivot shaft serving as the pivot fulcrum of the lifting member, a control portion, and an encoder outputting a pulse signal according to the rotation of the pivot shaft. The encoder includes a rotary member and an optical sensor. The control portion recognizes the remaining quantity of sheets on the li...