US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 3 for "Sheet laminator and image forming system incorporating the sheet laminator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,398, issued on March 3, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sheet laminator and image forming system incorporating the sheet laminator" was invented by Shota Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuki Shimodate (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaya Ochiai (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Takai (Tokyo) and Yosuke Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet laminator includes a thermal fixing roller pair, a first heater, a second heater, multiple temperature detectors, and a driver. The thermal fixing roller pair includes a first thermal fixing roller and a second therm...