Abstract: A printer or similar electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on an optical disk or similar synthetic resin sheet is disclosed. The apparatus of the present invention guarantees a sufficient period of time for fixation to thereby obviate defective fixation while producing as great a number of prints as possible. At the same time, the apparatus of the present invention saves energy and space and accurately matches the peripheral speed of a heat roller and the conveying speed of the synthetic resin sheet.

Abstract: A conjugated diolefin copolymer rubber and a rubber composition which can produce vulcanized products exhibiting well-balanced improved properties such as wet skid properties, low hysteresis loss properties, abrasion resistance, and breaking strength irrespective of the types and combinations of fillers to be added, and is useful as a tread material for low fuel consumption tires, large tires, and high performance tires. A conjugated diolefin copolymer rubber is prepared by the copolymerization of a conjugated diolefin and a vinyl aromatic compound, and (1) has a content of the bonded vinyl aromatic compound of 5-50 wt %, (2) contains 0.01-5.0 mmol of an alkoxysilyl group having substantially non-hydrolyzable Si—O—R bond (wherein R indicates a hydrocarbon group having 4-20 carbon atoms) and 0.01-2.0 mmol of a tin-carbon bond for 100 g of the copolymer rubber, and (3) has a polymodal-type molecular weight distribution.

Abstract: An objective of the invention is to provide a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, and the like, gives a vulcanized rubber exhibiting excellent wearing resistance and tensile strength, and the like, and thus is useful in a belt, a hose and a tire and the like, as well as a crosslinked rubber particle for obtaining such rubber composition. A rubber composition of the invention comprises [1] a crosslinked rubber particle comprising as repeating units (a) 30 to 94.89% by weight of a conjugated diene unit, (b) 5 to 69.89% by weight of an aromatic vinyl unit, (c) 0.01 to 10% by weight of a monomer unit having at least two polymerizable unsaturated group, (d) one polymerizable unsaturated group and an amino group, a hydroxyl group and an epoxy group and (e) 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition which has satisfactory processability and dimension stability, exhibits excellent tensile strength and wearing resistance, and the like when vulcanized and is useful as a material for an industrial product such as a rubber roll, a grinding roll, a belt, a hose and a rubber-coated fabric, a shoe part for example of a transparent shoe, a tire of a large-sized or small sized car such as a tread and a side wall and a sanitary material such as a contraceptive rubber or the like. A rubber composition of the invention comprises (1) a crosslinked rubber particle containing as repeating units (a) 39.89 to 79.89% by weight of a conjugated diene unit such as 1,3-butadiene or the like, (b) 20 to 60% by weight of an aromatic vinyl unit such as styrene, (c) 0.01 to 10% by weight of a monomer unit having at least two polymerizable unsaturated group such as divinylbenzene, and the like, and (d) 0.

Abstract: Conjugated diolefin-based copolymer rubber of a conjugated diolefin and an aromatic vinyl compound, wherein (1) the content of amino groups bound to the rubber (nitrogen content value) is 0.0025 to 0.20 mmol/g of copolymer rubber, (2) the content of the polymerization units of the aromatic vinyl compound is 5 wt % or more and less than 30 wt % based on the copolymer rubber, and the content of vinyl bonds in the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin (the total content of a 1,2-bond and a 3,4-bond) is 55 mol % or more based on the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin, or the content of the polymerization units of the aromatic vinyl compound is 30 to 50 wt % based on the copolymer rubber and the content of vinyl bonds in the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin is 25 to 55 mol % on the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin and (3) the molecular weight distribution is polymodal.

Abstract: A rubber composition exhibiting excellent low rolling resistance, high wet skid properties, and superior wear resistance, and suitably used as a vulcanized rubber for tire tread. The rubber composition comprises a styrene-butadiene copolymer previously extended using an extender oil, in an amount from 30 to 100 wt % of the total rubber components, and an extender oil in an amount from 6 to 50 parts by weight for 100 parts by weight of the total rubber components, of which 20 to 50 parts by weight of the extender oil for 100 parts by weight of styrene-butadiene copolymer is used to previously extend the styrene-butadiene copolymer. The styrene-butadiene copolymer has a styrene content from 5 to 45 wt %, 20 to 80% of a microstructure 1,2-bond of butadiene portion, a glass transition temperature from -55.degree. C. to -20.degree. C., and 40 wt % or more of a single styrene bond and 10 wt % or less of long styrene chain which contains 8 or more styrene molecules, among the total styrene bonds.