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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,670, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tubular fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shingo Ebukuro (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhiko Kinuta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular fixing member including a substrate, an elastic layer, an interlayer, and a surface layer are laminated in this order, in which "E1greater thanE2" is satisfied in a case where a storage elastic modulus of the elastic layer is denoted by E1 and a storage elastic modulus of the interlayer is denoted by E2."

The patent was filed on Aug. 8, 2023, under Applicat...