US Patent Issued to RICOH on Nov. 3 for "Conveyor and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,579, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Conveyor and image forming apparatus" was invented by Naoki Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Egawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor includes: a first guide plate including: a first roller shaft; and a first roller having a first hardness and attached to the first roller shaft; and a second guide plate disposed opposite to the first guide plate and including: a second roller shaft; a second roller having a second hardness higher than the first hardness of the first roller and attached to the second roller shaft, wherein parallelism between...