ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,015, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medium transport device and recording device" was invented by Yusuke Higuchi (Matsumoto, Japan), Yohei Sakai (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kazutoshi Matsuzaki (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a device main bod, a door section configured to open and close with respect to the device main body around a pivot shaft, and a door holding section configured to hold a state in which the door section is opened at a predetermined angle or more with respect to the device main body. The door section is configured to form at least a part ...