US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Electrophotography cleaning blade, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,234, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotography cleaning blade, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Shota Segawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Masanori Yokoyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichi Kikuchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Arihiro Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic cleaning blade including an elastic member including a polyurethane; and a support member supporting the elastic member, the electrophotographic cleaning blade cleans a surface of a to-be-cleaned member by bringing a part of the elastic member into contact with the s...