US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 1 for "Image forming apparatus and process cartridge including a cleaning blade with a coating layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,377, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and process cartridge including a cleaning blade with a coating layer" was invented by Keiichiro Juri (Tokyo), Masahiro Ohmori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideki Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a charging device, an irradiator, a developing device, a transfer device, a fixing device, and a cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade including an elastic cleaning blade substrate including the front end portion to clean the surface of the image bearer, the front edge ridge...