US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Feb. 10 for "Power transmission apparatus, medium transport apparatus, recording apparatus, control method of power transmission apparatus, and control method of medium transport apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,534, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power transmission apparatus, medium transport apparatus, recording apparatus, control method of power transmission apparatus, and control method of medium transport apparatus" was invented by Takao Oizumi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission apparatus includes a drive source, a power transmission switching section configured to switch between a transmission state in which power of the drive source is transmitted to a driven section and a non-transmission state in which power of the drive source is not transmitted to the driven sectio...