US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 27 for "Document conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,237, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Document conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masakatsu Kusuda (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a document conveyance apparatus includes: an opening-and-closing cover; a driving roller and a driven roller; a driven roller holding member which rotatably holds the driven roller, and causes the driven roller to contact or be separated from the driving roller in conjunction with opening and closing of the opening-and-closing cover; and a pressure-contact spring which applies, to the driven rol...