ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,702, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Paper feeding device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Daiki Satoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsumi Okada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paper feeding device includes: a bearing base to which a spool inserted into a paper roll, around which a paper is wound, is detachably attachable; a support including: a leading-end detection sensor to detect a leading end of the paper on the paper roll and output a sensor signal; and a roller disposed at a position in the support different from the leading-end detection ...