US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 12 for "Sheet feeding device and printing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,877, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Sheet feeding device and printing system" was invented by Sota Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet feeding device includes a sheet stacker, a conveyor, a sensor, circuitry, and a changing unit. The conveyor conveys a sheet from the sheet stacker by suction. The sensor detects a state of the sheet before the sheet is conveyed from the sheet stacker. The circuitry determines the state of the sheet based on a detection result of the sensor. The changing unit changes a passage to convey the sheet based on a determination result."

The patent was fil...