US Patent Issued to CANON on July 22 for "Electrophotographic member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,816, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Ayumi Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuaki Nagaoka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrophotographic member including: an electroconductive substrate; and an elastic layer on the substrate, the elastic layer constituted by a single layer, the elastic layer containing a silicone rubber having a dimethylsiloxane structure, wherein when a peak top temperature of an ion thermogram derived from the dimethylsiloxane structure, the ion th...