US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 10 for "Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,020, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system" was invented by Ryoma Tada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuta Hayashi (Tokyo) and Haruka Koba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing device includes a rotator, a first nipper, a conveyor, a second nipper, a detector, a memory, and circuitry. The rotator winds a two-ply sheet around the rotator to generate a winding circumferential difference between two sheets of the two-ply sheet to separate the two sheets. The detector detects an abnormal condition, in which ...