US Patent Issued to CANON on March 11 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,273, issued on March 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Nobuhiro Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomohito Ishida (Shizuoka, Japan), Shuhei Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Fumiyuki Hiyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shuntaro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wrinkles have a convex portion in which a linear shape portion having a length of 50 micro metre or longer exists, the linear shape portion is parallel to any one of L1 t...