US Patent Issued to PFU on April 14 for "Medium feed apparatus to advance succeeding sheet of medium when preceding sheet of medium passes pick roller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,587, issued on April 14, was assigned to PFU Ltd. (Kahoku, Japan).

"Medium feed apparatus to advance succeeding sheet of medium when preceding sheet of medium passes pick roller" was invented by Tomoyuki Niwata (Kahoku, Japan) and Shota Otsuka (Kahoku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium feed apparatus includes a stacking tray, a pick roller located at an upstream side from a feed roller and separation roller in the medium conveyance direction, a first sensor located at an upstream side from the pick roller in the medium conveyance direction, a second sensor located at a downstream side from the feed roller and the separat...