US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 24 for "Sheet conveying device, automatic document feeder, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,703, issued on March 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveying device, automatic document feeder, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kota Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasunobu Youda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying device includes a housing, an opening unit, and a drive rotator. The opening unit is openably close the housing, the opening unit including a driven rotator including first driven rollers at each end regions of an axis of the driven rotator, and a second driven roller at a center region of the axis. The drive rotator forms a conveyance roller pair with th...