Patents Assigned to Advanced Belt Technology
  • Welded non-woven endless belt
    Patent number: 5286542
    Abstract: A composite endless belt for use in printers, imaging devices and the like comprises a nonwoven, porous, open pore thermoplastic substrate having one or more electrically conductive elastomeric coatings thereon. The substrate, which comprises a combination of short fibers and fibrids or a randomly laid continuous fiber, is formed into an endless loop and the overlapping ends thereof are welded together ultrasonically. The belt is very thin, the combined thickness of the substrate and coating or coatings being less than about 0.015 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Advanced Belt Technology
    Inventors: Michael F. Susi, Thomas E. Pramuka