Patents by Inventor Jiann-Chen Chen

Jiann-Chen Chen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method for producing a replaceable fuser member
    Patent number: 7670650
    Abstract: A method for producing a replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve and an outside topcoat applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a machine mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser section of the electrophotographic copying machine. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of the sleeve to support the sleeve during positioning of a cured base cushion layer around the sleeve and a cured topcoat layer over the cured base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jiann-Chen Chen, Biao Tan, Allen Kass, Garold F. Fritz, Steven O. Cormier, Ralph E. Williams, Joseph A. Pavlisko
  • Replaceable fuser member
    Patent number: 7115084
    Abstract: A replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve, a primer coat of a silane coupling agent containing epoxies on the sleeve, and an outside coating applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser station of the electrophotographic copying machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jiann-Chen Chen, Biao Tan, Joseph A. Pavlisko, Muhammed Aslam, Allen Kass, Nataly Boulatnikov
  • Method for producing a replaceable fuser member
    Publication number: 20040165920
    Abstract: A method for producing a replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve and an outside topcoat applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a machine mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser section of the electrophotographic copying machine. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of the sleeve to support the sleeve during positioning of a cured base cushion layer around the sleeve and a cured topcoat layer over the cured base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jiann-Chen Chen, Biao Tan, Allen Kass, Garold F. Fritz, Steven O. Cormier, Ralph E. Williams, Joseph A. Pavlisko
  • Replaceable fuser member
    Publication number: 20040116264
    Abstract: A replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve, a primer coat of a silane coupling agent containing epoxies on the sleeve, and an outside coating applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser station of the electrophotographic copying machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jiann-Chen Chen, Biao Tan, Joseph A. Pavlisko, Muhammed Aslam, Allen Kass, Nataly Boulatnikov