US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on May 13 for "Belt cleaning blade, image forming apparatus, and transfer device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,684, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Belt cleaning blade, image forming apparatus, and transfer device" was invented by Yusuke Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuka Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt cleaning blade has a contact part that is brought into contact with at least a surface of a belt which is a member to be cleaned, in which the contact part is configured of polyurethane rubber containing a hard segment and a soft segment, and in a surface of the contact part, a proportion HX occupied by domains of the hard segment is...