ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,067, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Belt device, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt device includes a belt wound around support rotators, to travel as the support rotators rotate; a belt contact member on a rotation shaft of one of the support rotators, to contact an end of the belt and move in an axial direction of the rotation shaft with the belt; a displacement member on the rotation shaft and including an inclined face to move the one support rotator, to move in the axial direction as the belt contact memb...