US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 30 for "Cleaning blade, method of manufacturing the same, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,809, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning blade, method of manufacturing the same, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuma Tokai (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoko Shohji (Shizuoka, Japan), Keiichiro Juri (Tokyo), Masahiro Ohmori (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Sasa (Tokyo), Maho Shimokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiki Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning blade includes an elastic member that includes a front edge surface exten...