ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,850, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Belt member for electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Hironari Nishioka (Aichi, Japan), Sho Sakamoto (Aichi, Japan) and Yasuhide Watanabe (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt member 10 for an electrophotographic apparatus has: a surface layer 14 provided on an outer circumferential surface of a tubular base layer 12, the surface layer serving as a cured resin composition including: for 100 parts by mass of a fluorine resin having a hydroxyl group, 10 or more and 30 or less parts by mass or less of an isocyanate curing agent having ...