US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Nov. 3 for "Conductive member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,835, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conductive member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenta Yamakoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukimi Kawabata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive member includes: a substrate; an elastic layer provided on the substrate; and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, in which the surface layer contains a conductive agent and has a sea/island structure that includes a sea portion containing a first resin and an island portion containing a second resin, and in observation of a cross-...