ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,506, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Nakao (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet housing unit that is mounted on a body of an apparatus such that the sheet housing unit can be pulled out of the body of the apparatus; a blowing unit that blows air toward a sheet housed in the sheet housing unit; a heating unit that heats the air blown by the blowing unit; and a control unit that controls the blowing unit and the heating unit. In the sheet feeding device, the contro...