US Patent Issued to CANON on May 20 for "Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,560, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuji Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Souma (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoko Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Masatsugu Toyonori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasutomo Tsuji (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member having a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer comprises a binder resin; and a plurality of particles comprising a conductive tin oxide, in the binder resin, a content ratio of the particles comprising a cond...