Abstract: A belt device includes a secured member, a belt, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The belt has an endless shape and slides on a slide surface of the secured member. The belt has an inner portion having an elastic power of 55% or more and a sliding surface sliding on the slide surface of the secured member. The sliding surface has a surface roughness smaller than a surface roughness of the slide surface of the secured member. The pressure rotator presses the secured member via the belt to form a nip between the belt and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is interposed between the sliding surface of the belt and the slide surface of the secured member.

Abstract: A belt device includes a belt, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The belt is rotatable and has an endless shape. The belt includes an inner portion having an inner circumferential surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The inner circumferential surface of the belt slides on the secured member. The pressure rotator includes a porous elastic body and presses the secured member via the belt to form a nip between the belt and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is interposed between the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the secured member.

Abstract: A pressing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form and includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator is to slide. The slide surface has a smaller surface roughness than a surface roughness of the sliding surface. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant between the rotator and the secured member has a consistency of 275 or less.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form. The rotator includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is disposed inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator is to slide. The slide surface has a smaller surface roughness in a sliding direction of the rotator than a surface roughness of the sliding surface in the sliding direction of the rotator. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is provided between the rotator and the secured member.

Abstract: A belt device includes a heater and a belt. The heater includes a substrate and a heat generator on the substrate. The heater has a first heater surface and a second heater surface opposite the first heater surface. The first heater surface is adjacent to the heat generator. The belt is rotatable, has an endless shape, and slides on the second heater surface. The belt includes an inner portion having an inner circumferential surface to slide on the second heater surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 52% or more.

Abstract: A belt device includes a belt, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The belt is rotatable and has an endless shape. The belt includes an inner portion having an inner circumferential surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The inner circumferential surface of the belt slides on the secured member. The pressure rotator includes a porous elastic body and presses the secured member via the belt to form a nip between the belt and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is interposed between the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the secured member.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form. The rotator includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is disposed inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator slides. The slide surface has a larger hardness than a hardness of the sliding surface of the rotator. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is provided between the rotator and the secured member.

Abstract: A belt device includes a secured member, a belt, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The belt has an endless shape and slides on a slide surface of the secured member. The belt has an inner portion having an elastic power of 55% or more and a sliding surface sliding on the slide surface of the secured member. The sliding surface has a surface roughness smaller than a surface roughness of the slide surface of the secured member. The pressure rotator presses the secured member via the belt to form a nip between the belt and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is interposed between the sliding surface of the belt and the slide surface of the secured member.

Abstract: A pressing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form and includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator is to slide. The slide surface has a smaller surface roughness than a surface roughness of the sliding surface. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant between the rotator and the secured member has a consistency of 275 or less.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form. The rotator includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is disposed inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator slides. The slide surface has a larger hardness than a hardness of the sliding surface of the rotator. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is provided between the rotator and the secured member.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form. The rotator includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is disposed inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator is to slide. The slide surface has a smaller surface roughness in a sliding direction of the rotator than a surface roughness of the sliding surface in the sliding direction of the rotator. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant is provided between the rotator and the secured member.

Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide an automobile part capable of improving fuel consumption by weight reduction of the part because the impact resistance that can be sufficiently used even in cold regions can be given to a part made of a thinner plastic. An automobile part obtained by forming a coating film layer on a plastic material comprising a polypropylene resin composition modified with an elastomer component having a thickness of 1.5 to 2.5 mm, wherein said coating film layer is a multilayer coating film obtained by coating and baking the following coating compositions in this order; (a) a primer coating composition having a single film tensile elongation of 5 to 35% at ?20° C.

Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a crosslinked polymer by radical polymerization of a monomer composition, by which method a desired crosslinked polymer can be produced in a high solid content with good productivity (also at a low production cost), and a crosslinked polymer obtained by the production method and a coating composition containing the same.

Abstract: An electroconductive resin belt having a flame resistance of VTM-0 in UL94 standard when having a thickness of from 50 to 150 ?m includes a first resin selected from the group consisting of polyetherimide-siloxane block copolymer, polyphenylene sulfide and polyimide; a second resin selected from the group consisting of polyetherimide, polyether sulfone, polyester, aliphatic polyamide, polyetherimide-siloxane block copolymer and polyamideimide; carbon as a first conductant; and at least one second conductant selected from the group consisting of particulate Al-doped ZnO, particulate Ga-doped ZnO, particulate Sb-doped SnO2, particulate In-doped SnO2, particulate P-doped SnO2 and the group consisting of metal oxides coated with any one of the second conductant group.

Abstract: A conductive resin belt includes at least one amorphous polymer selected from a first group consisting of polyether imide and polyether sulfone, at least one crystalline polymer selected from a second group consisting of polyether ether ketone and polyphenylene sulfide, at least one reactive polymer selected from a third group consisting of a copolymer of ethylene and glycidyl methacrylate and a polymer including an oxazoline group, and a conductivity imparting material. Surface resistivity of the conductive resin belt at 500V is 106 ?/sq. Volume resistivity of the conductive resin belt at 100V is 106 ?·cm to 1014 ?·cm. A cross-section of the conductive resin belt includes a dispersion phase and a continuous phase. The reactive polymer exists at a concentration of 30% to 70% within 10 nm to 1 ?m of an interface between the dispersion phase and the continuous phase.

Abstract: A belt assembly is disclosed. The belt assembly comprises an incompatible-polymer alloy including at least one crystalline resin which is selected from polyphenylene sulfide, polyetheretherketone, and polyvinylidene difluoride and at least one amorphous resin which is selected from polyethersulfone and polycarbonate, polyphenyleneether, polysulfone, and polyarylate. Wherein the weight ratio between the crystalline resin and the amorphous resin is from 70:30 to 95:5, carbon as a first conductive agent is distributed unevenly only in a successive layer, at least a second conductive agent which is selected from ZnO particles, SnO2 particles. Sb-doped SnO2 particles, In-doped SnO2 particles, P-doped SnO2 particles and metal-oxide particles covered by one of these particles is distributed unevenly only in the successive layer, and a flame-resistance value of the belt is VTM-0 under a condition that a thickness thereof is from 50 [?m] to 150 [?m] at a UL 94 standard.

Abstract: To provide a seamless belt, which includes: a polyether imide containing a siloxane bond; at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyphenylene sulfide, a polyether ether ketone, a thermoplastic fluororesin, and a liquid crystal polymer; an ethylene-glycidyl (meth)acrylate copolymer; and an electrical conductivity-imparting agent.

Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing a crosslinked polymer by radical polymerization of a monomer composition, by which method a desired crosslinked polymer can be produced in a high solid content with good productivity (also at a low production cost), and a crosslinked polymer obtained by the production method and a coating composition containing the same.

Abstract: In order to support a system of changing a design of a parts constituting a product, both a parts composition information database for storing and supervising parts compositions of various products, and a related section information database for storing various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing design change capability in connection with the product are provided. Information of design change objective is input so as to retrieve and specify one or more products employing the design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with the input parts information. In accordance with the specified product, the related section information database is retrieved so as to select sections and/or persons. A request for assessing the parts design change capability is electronically transmitted to the selected one or more sections and/or persons.

Abstract: In order to support a system of changing a design of a parts constituting a product, both a parts composition information database for storing and supervising parts compositions of various products, and a related section information database for storing various sections and/or persons in charge of assessing design change capability in connection with the product are provided. Information of design change objective is input so as to retrieve and specify one or more products employing the design change parts from the parts composition information database in accordance with the input parts information. In accordance with the specified product, the related section information database is retrieved so as to select sections and/or persons. A request for assessing the parts design change capability is electronically transmitted to the selected one or more sections and/or persons.