US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 23 for "Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,532, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Hori (Chiba, Japan), Haruki Mori (Chiba, Japan), Shota Inoue (Ibaraki, Japan), Kaoru Okamoto (Chiba, Japan), Masayuki Onuma (Chiba, Japan), Yusuke Baba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member comprising: a base material; an elastic layer on the base material; and a surface layer on the elastic layer, wherein the elastic layer comprises silicone rubber, the surface layer comprises fluoro rubber, a thi...