US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 23 for "Lubricant composition, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,470, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lubricant composition, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tanemura (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan) and Iori Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant composition fed to an intermediate transfer belt in an intermediate transfer-type electrophotographic image forming method includes solid lubricant particles that are inorganic compound particles having an average size of 120 nm or less and a binder dispose...