US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 17 for "Sheet container and image forming apparatus incorporating the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,623, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet container and image forming apparatus incorporating the same" was invented by Koji Hatayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet container includes a body and a feed tray. The body includes a guide rail having a protrusion at a contact position. The feed tray loads multiple sheets. The feed tray is insertable to and removable from the body along the guide rail in a horizontal direction and includes a contact in an upstream portion of the feed tray in a drawing direction along the horizontal direction. In response to the feed tray drawn from ...