US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Nov. 18 for "Film, tubular fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,656, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film contains at least one macromolecular compound selected from the group consisting of resins and rubbers and an electrically conductive filler including at least a needle-shaped filler and dispersed in the macromolecular compound. The content of the elect...