US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 9 for "Pull-out lock device for sheet container and image-forming apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,024, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Pull-out lock device for sheet container and image-forming apparatus including the same" was invented by Hiroki Shintani (Sakai, Japan), Toshihiko Seike (Sakai, Japan), Shohtaroh Okamoto (Sakai, Japan) and Takahisa Narikiyo (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a lock member of a pull-out lock device, while two adjacent sheet containers are both located at an accommodated position in an image-forming apparatus main body, a contact member is in contact with one of the sheet containers and thus the lock member rotates around a rotation axis, and a lock moves...