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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,655, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Film, member, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tanemura (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeru Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film includes: a binder resin; and an ester-modified silicone resin, in which the film has a first surface having a static friction coefficient denoted as A and a second su...