US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 1 for "Sliding member containing graphite particles, image fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,368, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sliding member containing graphite particles, image fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryohei Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Ohara (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiki Nagamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomotake Inagaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hitoshi Komuro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding member includes a sliding layer that contains a heat-resistant thermoplastic resin other than a fluororesin and graphite particles, in which the graphite particles are exposed on a sliding surfa...