US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on March 25 for "Resin belt, fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,671, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Resin belt, fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenji Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiki Nagamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomotake Inagaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohei Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin belt contains a resin, a low-melting-point alloy having a melting point of 370deg C. or lower, and a fibrous filler."

The patent was filed on Aug. 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/457,836.

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