US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 17 for "Sheet remover, conveying device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,077, issued on March 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet remover, conveying device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryuunosuke Minegishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet remover includes a pair of insertion-part formers and a pair of through-part formers. The pair of insertion-part formers forms an insertion part between the pair of insertion-part formers into which a sheet is inserted. At least one of the pair of insertion-part formers includes an inclined portion inclined in a direction in which a width of the insertion part in a thickness direction of the sheet decreases in a...