US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 11 for "Charging member with resin-based surface layer containing conductive inorganic particles" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,797, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging member with resin-based surface layer containing conductive inorganic particles" was invented by Yukimi Kawabata (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenta Yamakoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging member includes a support member, an elastic layer provided on the support member, and a surface layer provided on the clastic layer, in which the surface layer contains a resin, conductive particles, and non-conductive inorganic particles, and the surface layer contains 5 parts by mass or more and 40...