US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Electrophotographic member, fixing apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,756, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member, fixing apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomoyo Miyakai (Tokyo), Kosuke Tanaka (Chiba, Japan), Ryunosuke Kawahara (Ibaraki, Japan) and Akeshi Asaka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member comprising: at least a base layer; an elastic layer; and a surface layer in this order, wherein the surface layer comprises a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, at an endothermic curve upon performing two measurements at a ramp up rate and a ramp down rate both set...