US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on April 14 for "Fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,996, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenji Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiki Nagamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomotake Inagaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded body contains a resin and a filler dispersed in the resin, in which, in a case where a Martens hardness is measured at 10 locations within a region of 50 mm square on a maximum surface of the molded body, a difference between a ma...