US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Dec. 16 for "Endless belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,654, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endless belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tanemura (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Iori Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeru Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endless belt, in which an outer peripheral surface of the endless belt has a coefficient of dynamic friction of 0.85 or less, and in a case where polyester resin particles having...