US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 16 for "Conveyance device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,718, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Conveyance device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuma Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Keitaro Shoji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuusuke Furuichi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance device includes a first temperature detector and a second temperature detector that detect a temperature of a heater. A recording medium detector detects a recording medium. The first temperature detector is separated from a center position of an elastic layer of a pressure rotator farther than the second temperature detector is in an orthogonal direction perpend...