US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Oct. 27 for "Cleaning member, cleaning device, removable unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,235, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning member, cleaning device, removable unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoya Mitamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Shimodaira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning member includes: an elastic contact plate that includes a distal end surface with a corner portion to be brought into contact with a cleaning target surface, which is moved with toner attached thereto, of a cleaning target body; and a support plate bonded to the elastic contact plate from a back surface side o...