US Patent Issued to RICOH on Jan. 20 for "Sheet conveying device, automatic document feeder, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,660, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveying device, automatic document feeder, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Nakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor, a sound collector, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a sheet. The sound collector collects an operating sound when the sheet is conveyed. The circuitry is to extract a feature amount of the operating sound collected by the sound collector, select, among multiple sets of index data serving as index to determine whether an abnormal conveyance of the sheet is to be oc...