Ricoh Gets Patent for Contact-Separation Mechanism, Fixing Device, and Image Forming Apparatus

Published date22 December 2021
Publication titleGlobal IP News (India)
The abstract released by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states, "A contact-separation mechanism includes a cam to rotate to move a contact-separation member to and from a counterpart member, a detection target to rotate together with the cam, and a detector to detect presence or absence of the detection target in a detection area of the detector, and circuitry. The cam has a reference range. The circuitry issues a rotation stop instruction of the cam after...

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