Patents Examined by Victor Berbitsky
  • Cleaning blade, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9709946
    Abstract: A cleaning blade includes a polyurethane member that constitutes at least a contact portion that comes in contact with a member to be cleaned. The polyurethane member contains a polyurethane containing a hard segment component and a soft segment component. The hard segment component has a domain particle size of about 45 nm or more and about 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tano, Yu Nakamura, Noriaki Kojima, Kei Tanaka, Shintaro Kikuchi, Yuko Kawase