US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Nov. 3 for "Sheet manufacturing apparatus and power switching device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,433, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet manufacturing apparatus and power switching device" was invented by Tetsuya Tamura (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a processing roller, a first processing unit configured to clean the processing roller, a second processing unit configured to separate the first processing unit from the processing roller, a driving unit configured to drive the first processing unit and the second processing unit, and a gear interposed between the driving unit and the first processing unit and the second processing unit. The ...