US Patent Issued to RICOH on Nov. 3 for "Cleaning blade, cleaning unit, intermediate transfer unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,852, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning blade, cleaning unit, intermediate transfer unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Keiichiro Juri (Tokyo), Masahiro Ohmori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning blade includes an elastic cleaning blade including an edge layer and a coating layer on the front end portion of the elastic cleaning blade substrate, the coating layer that comes into contact with a cleaning target to clean the surface of the cleaning target, the front end portion including a front edge ridge part and a cleaning bl...