ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,884, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideto Higaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Susumu Narita (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a body; a sheet conveyor to convey a sheet in an interior of the body; a removable component detachably attachable to the interior of the body from one side face of the body. The sheet conveyor includes a sheet conveyance roller having: a first face to guide the sheet in the interior of the body; and a second face to guide the removable component during an attachment or a detachment of the removabl...