US Patent Issued to SYNZTEC on Feb. 10 for "Image-forming roller, charge roller, method for inspecting image-forming roller, and method for inspecting charge roller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,092, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SYNZTEC Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Image-forming roller, charge roller, method for inspecting image-forming roller, and method for inspecting charge roller" was invented by Atsushi Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Nozomu Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Fukuoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Oura (Kanagawa, Japan), Goki Inukai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shogo Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge roller includes a base and a surface layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the base, with a contact angle between the surface layer and toluene being 6deg or m...