US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on June 16 for "Medium transport device and image reading device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,969, issued on June 16, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device and image reading device" was invented by Noriyuki Koyanagi (Kitakyushu, Japan), Shuichi Kadota (Fukuoka, Japan), Yoichiro Nishimura (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Ryoichi Shuto (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a first roller pair, a second roller pair disposed downstream of the first roller pair, and an ultrasonic detection section disposed between the first roller pair and the second roller pair.The ultrasonic detection section includes a transmission sensor chip, a receiving sensor chip, a transm...