US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on March 11 for "Charging member, method for producing charging member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,256, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging member, method for producing charging member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Fuyuki Kano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging member includes a support member, an elastic layer provided on the support member, an outer layer provided on the elastic layer, and a protective layer provided as an outermost layer on the outer layer. The protective layer contains silica and has a silicon element concentration of 10 atomic % or more, and the outer peripheral surface has a cont...