US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Oct. 27 for "Conveying device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,165, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conveying device" was invented by Kenichiro Kawasaki (Osaka, Japan), Nobuyuki Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Betto (Osaka, Japan) and Akihisa Mori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device includes an endless conveyance belt and a drive source, and a charging roller. The drive source drives the conveyance belt. The charging roller applies an AC voltage to the conveyance belt. A peripheral length of the charging roller is (2N+1) times (N is an integer greater than or equal to 1) a half-cycle l...