US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,765, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroomi Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member with an endless shape, the electrophotographic member comprising: a cylindrical film; and a surface layer on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical film, wherein the cylindrical film comprises: a shrinkage rate Alphap in a first direction serving as a circumferential direction of the cylindrical film and a shrinkage rate Alphaa in a second direction orthogonal to the circumferent...