Patents by Inventor Taizo Sasaki

Taizo Sasaki 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).

  • Patent number: 5411779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite tubular article for use as the fixing belt in an image-forming device such as a copying machine etc., particularly as a fixing belt suited for thermal fixing, and also relates to a process for producing the same.Conventionally known as an image-fixing belt is a belt consisting of a polyimide resin as the inner layer and a fluoroplastic as the outer layer. However, this fixing belt has problems that clear images cannot be obtained because the thickness of each layer is uneven, and that unglossed, so-called matt images cannot be obtained because the belt surface is smooth.This invention provides a composite tubular article comprising a tubular inner layer made of a polyimide resin and a tubular outer layer made of a fluoroplastic, the outer circumferential surface of the fluoroplastic tubular outer layer having a surface roughness of 1 to 10 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Nakajima, Masayuki Kaneto, Toshihiko Tomita, Tokio Fujita, Hitoshi Ishizaka, Chiaki Harada, Gosei Uemura, Taizo Sasaki, Masao Nakamura, Mamoru Hondo, Tadanori Michimoto, Toshiaki Iwamoto