US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Feb. 18 for "Transfer device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,869, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transfer device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Ono (Ebina, Japan), Shigeru Fukuda (Ebina, Japan), Satoya Sugiura (Ebina, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Ebina, Japan), Yosuke Kubo (Ebina, Japan), Iori Nishimura (Ebina, Japan), Daisuke Tanemura (Ebina, Japan), Masayuki Seko (Ebina, Japan) and Koichi Matsumoto (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt having a surface to which a toner image may be transferred and solid lubricant particles are attached, a primary transfer member pe...