Patents Represented by Attorney Annette L. Bade
  • Patent number: 6738595
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Bing R. Hsieh, T. Edwin Freeman
  • Patent number: 6733839
    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
  • Patent number: 6733943
    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
  • Patent number: 6718152
    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
  • Patent number: 6648467
    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
  • Patent number: 6647237
    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
  • Patent number: 6638383
    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
  • Patent number: 6625416
    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.
  • Patent number: 6620476
    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
  • Patent number: 6618570
    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
  • Patent number: 6606476
    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
  • Patent number: 6602156
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Edward L. Schlueter, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6576078
    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
  • Patent number: 6571939
    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
  • Patent number: 6558778
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santokh S. Badesha, David J. Gervasi
  • Patent number: 6558767
    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
  • Patent number: 6527105
    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
  • Patent number: 6523208
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Muscato, Carl A. Wisniewski
  • Patent number: 6514650
    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
  • Patent number: 6515069
    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