US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Electrophotographic member, method for producing same, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image-forming device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,836, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic member, method for producing same, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image-forming device" was invented by Masahiro Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Kana Sato (Shizuoka, Japan), Tetsuo Hino (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takayuki Hiratani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic member comprising: a mandrel; and an elastic layer on an outer periphery of the mandrel, the elastic layer containing a polyurethane elastomer including a matrix and domains dispersed in the matrix, a parameter A and a parameter B satisfy...