Abstract: An endless seamed flexible belt comprising a first end and a second end which join together to form a seam, the seam having an adhesive with an oxidized charge transport molecule, a charge transport molecule, or mixtures thereof.
Abstract: Fuser members and processes are provided for crosslinked fluorocarbon elastomer surfaces containing a fluorocarbon elastomer and a non-amino crosslinker together with methods for providing a crosslinked fluorocarbon elastomer surface on a fuser member supporting substrate which include mixing together an acid acceptor, an emulsifier, water, and non-amino based crosslinker with a latex fluorocarbon elastomer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 2003
Date of Patent:
May 11, 2004
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Santokh S. Badesha, Clifford O. Eddy, David J. Gervasi, George J. Heeks, Arnold W. Henry
Abstract: A pressure belt useful in electrostatographic machines, having a polyimide substrate, an optional intermediate and/or adhesive layer, and an outer polyimide layer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 7, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 11, 2004
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Patrick J. Finn, Robert S. Pawlik, Elizabeth L. Barrese, David J. Gervasi, Pat Goode, Santokh S. Badesha
Abstract: An apparatus for reducing accumulation of toner from the surface of an electrode member in a development unit of an electrostatographic printing apparatus by providing a coating having a polymer with a fully fluorinated polymer on at least a portion of the electrode member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 18, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 6, 2004
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
David J. Geervasi, Santokh S. Badesha, George J. Bingham
Abstract: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating with a polymer blend of a first polymer and a second polymer different from the first polymer, and an optional heating member associated with the offset printing apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2002
Date of Patent:
November 18, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
David H. Pan, Santokh S. Badesha, Xiaoying (Elizabeth) Yuan, Donald S. Stanton, Anthony Yeznach, Trevor J. Snyder
Abstract: A three-layer transfer member having a rigid substrate, a conformable intermediate layer and an outer thin fluoropolymer layer wherein the fluoropolymer layer can be tetrafluoroethylene, perfluoroalkoxy, fluorine ethylene propene monomers, polymers thereof, and mixtures thereof, and an image apparatus including the same.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2000
Date of Patent:
November 11, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Edward L. Schlueter, Jr., Gerald M. Fletcher, Nancy Y. Jia, John S. Berkes
Abstract: A process for seaming seamed component for use in seaming members useful in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines, including: a) compounding an adhesive; b) forming the adhesive in contact with a first side of the seam and the mutually mating members; c) contacting the adhesive and first side of the seam to a first heated clamp; d) contacting the second side of the seam to a second heated clamp; e) subjecting the adhesive in contact with the mutually mating members to a first cure at a first temperature to form a cured adhesive; and f) subjecting the cured adhesive to a second cure at a second temperature to form a dual-cured adhesive, wherein the second temperature is higher than the first temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2001
Date of Patent:
October 28, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Joseph A. Swift, Christopher P. Manos, Theodore Lovallo, Gregory Toth
Abstract: A transfix member with a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating having a haloelastomer consisting essentially of monomers selected from the group consisting of halogenated monomers, polyorganosiloxane monomers, and mixtures thereof, and a heating member associated with substrate.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2000
Date of Patent:
September 23, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Santokh S. Badesha, Edward L. Schlueter, Jr.
Abstract: A nonbleeding bias charging member having an outer layer on a supporting substrate with fluorinated carbon and zinc oxide dispersed in the outer layer material, where bleeding of contaminants to imaging members is decreased or eliminated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 13, 1999
Date of Patent:
September 16, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Kock-Yee Law, Martin A. Abkowitz, Frederick E. Knier, Jr., James B. Maliborski
Abstract: A seamed flexible belt with interlocking seam members having an outer layer including a polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, or a polyurethane from the reaction of polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, for use in the xerographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 13, 2003
Date of Patent:
September 9, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Xiaoying (Elizabeth) Yuan, Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Donald S. Stanton
Abstract: A transfix member with a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer layer having a fluoroelastomer and polyamino polysiloxane, and a heating member associated with the transfix member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 19, 2001
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Kock-Yee Law, Xiaoying (Elizabeth) Yuan, Edward L. Schlueter, Jr., Ihor W. Tarnawskyj
Abstract: A seamed flexible belt having a substrate and a seam having interlocking seam members, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like printing machines.
Abstract: A process for flashless hot melt bonding of seamed flexible belts having a substrate and a seam having interlocking seam members, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines, wherein the process includes: a) providing a release layer having an adhesive strip on a front side of the release layer, wherein the release layer is wider than the adhesive strip; b) providing the release layer containing the adhesive strip over the seam, wherein the front side of the release layer containing the adhesive strip is in contact with the seam and mutually mating members; c) thermal compressive adhesive bonding of the release layer to the seam, and d) optionally postcuring the seam; and wherein virtually no flashing of the adhesive outside the seam occurs.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2001
Date of Patent:
June 10, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Ralph A. Mosher, Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Matthew J. Torpey, William M. Prest, Jr., Jodie L. Watson
Abstract: A seamed flexible belt having a substrate, a seam having interlocking seam members, and an optional overcoat, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and carbon filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2002
Date of Patent:
June 3, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Joseph A. Swift, Christopher P Manos, Theodore Lovallo
Abstract: A component film having a surface layer and a polymer matrix layer, wherein the polymer matrix layer has a polymer and small molecules, and the polymer matrix is designed to allow the small molecules to diffuse through the polymer matrix layer to the surface layer upon the application of pressure or heat to the component film.
Abstract: A seamed flexible belt with interlocking seam members having an outer layer including a polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, or a polyurethane from the reaction of polyvinylbutyral and an isocyanate, for use in the xerographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2001
Date of Patent:
May 6, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Xiaoying (Elizabeth) Yuan, Ihor W. Tarnawskyi, Donald S. Stanton
Abstract: A seamed flexible belt having a substrate, a seam having interlocking seam members, and an optional overcoat, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and carbon filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2001
Date of Patent:
March 4, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Joseph A. Swift, Christopher P. Manos, Theodore Lovallo
Abstract: A web cleaning system including a stationary frame and a rotatable frame being rotatable about an axis while supported by the stationary frame. The rotatable frame supporting first and second contact cleaning rolls that are rotatable about axes and are spaced from and parallel to each other and the axis of the rotatable frame. A web transport device is disposed to fed a web along a predetermined path between the first and second contact cleaning rolls. Major surfaces of the web being parallel to the axes of the cleaning rolls when fed therebetween.
Abstract: An electrostatographic component having a substrate and an outer coating of a thin, conformable perfluoroelastomer, wherein the outer coating has a thickness of from about 1 to about 75 micrometers, and wherein the unit manufacturing cost of developing the component is decreased and adhesion of the layer is increased.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 2, 1999
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
Edward L. Schlueter, Jr., Arnold W. Henry
Abstract: A release agent having a polydimethylsiloxane and a fluorosurfactant other than a silicone glycol polymer, a perfluoroalkylsubstituted polyethylene glycol, or a perfluoroalkylsubstituted silane.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 30, 2001
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2003
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
David J. Gervasi, Samuel Kaplan, George A. Riehle