US Patent Issued to SYNZTEC on Sept. 1 for "Cleaning blade and method of producing elastic member of cleaning blade" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,378, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SYNZTEC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning blade and method of producing elastic member of cleaning blade" was invented by Shogo Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuji Abe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning blade includes an elastic member having an edge that is brought into contact with a photoconductor member. The elastic member includes surface layers formed of a polyurethane rubber that contains an isocyanate silane and a rubber portion formed of a polyurethane rubber that does not contain an isocyanate silane. The surface layers include at leas...