US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 10 for "Electrophotographic member and method of producing the member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,088, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member and method of producing the member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Masashi Uno (Shizuoka, Japan), Ryo Sugiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenta Matsunaga (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akio Nishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member includes an electroconductive substrate bearing a monolayer surface layer formed thereon. The surface layer has a matrix containing a crosslinked resin binder, and holds at least one particle containing an inorganic layered compound that has an ion exch...