ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,581, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS INC. (Tokyo) and JTEKT Corp. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Sheet conveying apparatus" was invented by Masateru Mikami (Himeji, Japan), Tetsuya Sato (Kobe, Japan), Masayuki Hori (Himeji, Japan) and Toshikazu Sakei (Toyoake, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a first conveying section that conveys a strip-shaped sheet having a first surface and a second surface, with the first surface facing downward; a turn section provided downstream of the first conveying section to turn over the sheet; and a second conveying section provided downstr...