US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Dec. 2 for "Sheet separation device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,660, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet separation device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Wataru Takahashi (Tokyo), Tomohiro Furuhashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Ruki Midorikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinya Monma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sho Asano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet separation device includes a sheet separator and a conveyor. The sheet separator separates a non-bonding portion of a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and bonded together at a bonding portion of the two-ply sheet. The...