US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Oct. 6 for "Image forming apparatus that detects presence of sheet on transport route, and posture of branch guide, with single sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,508, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that detects presence of sheet on transport route, and posture of branch guide, with single sensor" was invented by Yoshiaki Ishihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device; a fixing device; a first transport route; a second transport route; a branch guide that assumes a first posture and a second posture; a sheet contact member that assumes a non-contact posture and a contacting posture; a detection object that assumes a first posture, when the branch guide a...