US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 15 for "Endless belt, belt unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,481, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endless belt, belt unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenta Shingu (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoya Sugiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiyasu Yukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endless belt includes a base material layer, the base material layer containing a polymer material and conductive particles, wherein in a section of the base material layer in a thickness direction, the conductive particles have an area ratio of 9.0% or more and 14.5% or less, an average value of areas of Delauna...