US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on March 17 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,662, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Yoshida (Osaka, Japan) and Kiichiro Oji (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer includes a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer. The charge generating layer contains a phthalocyanine pigment and a first resin. A ratio of the mass of the phthalocyanine pigment to the mass of the first ...