US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 22 for "Punching unit and sheet post-processing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,394, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Punching unit and sheet post-processing device" was invented by Rina Okada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A punching unit includes a punching blade, a holder, a biasing member, an eccentric cam, and a punching guide. The eccentric cam contacts the holder, and rotates against a biasing force of the biasing member to move the holder in a punching direction in which the punching blade approaches the sheet. The punching guide extends in a moving direction of the punching blade in which the punching blade moves with respect to the shee...