US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Electrophotographic member, heat fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,802, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member, heat fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasuhiro Miyahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member including a substrate, and an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate; wherein the elastic layer has silicone rubber, a tensile modulus of the elastic layer in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction thereof is 0.20 MPa or less, a compressive modulus of the elastic layer in the thickness direction is 0.19 to 0.57 MPa, a value (tensile modulu...