Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a conductive roll having high resistance to permanent set and high resistance to adhesion. The conductive roll 1 has a rubber elastic portion formed of a rubber material including a carbon-carbon double bond and exhibiting electric conductivity. The surface of the rubber elastic portion is exposed as the surface of the roll. An organic group including one or more groups selected from silicone groups and fluorine-containing groups is bonded through an isocyanuric acid skeleton to the surface of the rubber elastic portion. The organic group may be a group derived from an organic compound including one or more groups selected from silicone groups and fluorine-containing groups and having a carbon-carbon double bond.

Abstract: The present invention is a double-sleeved roller for use in an electrostatographic machine. The roller includes a cylindrical rigid core member, a removable inner sleeve member that surrounds and intimately contacts the rigid core member; and a removable outer sleeve member including a substrate comprising a polymeric material support layer. The inner sleeve member comprises a ceramer outer surface, and the outer sleeve member surrounds and intimately contacts the outer ceramer surface of the inner sleeve member and is removable. The outer sleeve may include a polyethylene terephthalate inner surface that contacts the outer ceramer surface of the inner sleeve member. The inner sleeve can comprise a rigid substrate such as nickel having an outer ceramer surface.

Abstract: The present invention is a sleeved roller for use in an electrostatographic machine. The roller includes a cylindrical rigid core member having an outer ceramer surface. A removable sleeve member includes a substrate comprising a polymeric material support layer, wherein the sleeve member surrounds and intimately contacts the outer ceramer surface. The invention provides a low cost sleeved roller, while providing a high friction interference fit to reduce slipping of the sleeve member during operation and thereby providing improved registration performance.

Abstract: There is provided a tube having fine irregularities formed on the outer peripheral face or inner peripheral face. The tube has a hollow tube body made of metal with uniform wall thickness of 20 to 50 ?m. The tube is obtained by plastic working through spinning, in which a metallic ring-shaped metal original body (6) is rotated together with a rotation support body (3) about the center axis of the metal original body (6), while being pressed by a top or tops (5) disposed on the outer periphery of the metal original body (6). Fine irregularities (12) are formed on the outer peripheral face or the inner peripheral face of the metal tube at a substantially fixed interval. Both ends of the metal original body (6) worked by spinning are cut to yield a tube (11).

Abstract: The semiconductive roller according to the present invention includes a nonporous roller body made of a rubber composition containing styrene-butadiene rubber and epichlorohydrin rubber as rubber components.

Abstract: An apparatus and method support rollers with a shaft along an axis absent of deflection of the shaft. Under load, the shaft deflects and the rollers reorient themselves along the shaft such that outer circumferential surfaces of the rollers are substantially parallel to the undeflected axis.

Abstract: The transfer member according to the present invention is a transfer member employed for transferring toner in an image forming apparatus utilizing electrophotography, made of a rubber composition at least containing styrene-butadiene rubber, ethylene-propylene-diene rubber and epichlorohydrin rubber as rubber components.

Abstract: Provided is an electrifying roller which is manufactured more easily, and has a good electrical conduction property with a small amount of electrically conductive material. Provided are electrifying rollers (10, 20) comprising a shaft 1, an elastic layer 2 formed on the periphery of the shaft 1, and a surface layer 3 formed on the periphery surface of the elastic layer 2, wherein the elastic layer 2 is formed by an ultraviolet curing resin having a phosphoester group. It is preferred that the ultraviolet curing resin be made of a compound represented by the following Formula (1): (wherein R1 is represented by the following Formula (2): ?CH2?m??(2) (where m is an integer from 1 to 10), R2 is represented by any one of the following Formulae (3) to (9): R3 is represented by any one of the following Formulae (10) to (12): (where r, s and t are an integer from 10 to 150), and n is an integer from 1 to 10).

Abstract: A developing roller is provided which supplies a toner to a photosensitive member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive member. The developing roller has a surface layer which includes carbon black and a polyurethane resin. The polyurethane resin has a specific structure. The surface layer has a specific ester group concentration and a specific urethane group concentration.

Abstract: A conductive member includes a conductive support and an electrical resistance adjusting layer formed on the conductive support. The electrical resistance adjusting layer includes a thermoplastic resin, a polymeric ion conductive material, and a graft copolymer which is compatible with both of the thermoplastic resin and the polymeric ion conductive material. The electrical resistance adjusting layer is formed in a sea-island structure formed from a sea portion made of the polymeric ion conductive material and island portions made of the thermoplastic resin, the island portions being dispersed in the sea portion and each of the island portions is formed in an elongate shape. A layer made of the graft copolymer is formed at boundaries between the thermoplastic resin and the polymeric ion conductive material.

Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) includes a sheet picking mechanism (210). The sheet picking mechanism includes a rotatable picking member (212). With each rotation an end sheet (266) can be picked from a stack (264) of sheets. The picking member (212) has an outer surface section that includes a high friction portion (256) axially adjacent to a low friction portion (258). The low friction portion comprises an arcuate projecting portion that reduces risk of damage to a leading edge area of the end sheet due to opposed picking and stripping forces.

Abstract: The present invention provides a charging member which can maintain excellent wear resistance even though being used repeatedly. In the charging member having a surface layer, the surface layer is a surface layer constituted by at least one selected from silsesquioxanes having structures represented by a compound (1), a compound (2), a compound (3), a compound (4), a compound (5) and a compound (6), and a polysiloxane having a first unit represented by SiO0.5R1(OR2)(OR3), a second unit represented by SiO1.0R4(OR5) and a third unit represented by SiO1.5R6, wherein the silsesquioxane is contained in the polysiloxane.

Abstract: A roll member includes: a core; and an elastic layer that is formed on the core and constituted with a vulcanized substance of a rubber composition containing a polysulfide polymer (A) and an elastic material (B); wherein the polysulfide polymer (A) includes at least one structural unit selected from —(C2H4OCH2OC2H4—Sx)— and —(CH2CH(OH)CH2—Sx)—, wherein x represents an integer of from 1 to 5, and includes at least one thiol group selected from —C2H4OCH2OC2H4—SH and —CH2CH(OH)CH2—SH at an end thereof, and wherein the elastic material (B) is an elastic material other than the polysulfide polymer and includes at least a double bond in the chemical structure thereof.

Abstract: The semiconductive roller according to the present invention includes: a roller body having an outer peripheral surface made of a semiconductive rubber composition; and an oxide film covering the outer peripheral surface of the roller body, while the semiconductive rubber composition contains a base polymer and a crosslinking component for crosslinking the base polymer, the base polymer is a mixture of a bicopolymer E containing epichlorohydrin and nitrile-butadiene rubber N, the mass ratio E/N of the bicopolymer E and the nitrile-butadiene rubber N in the mixture is 50/50 to 80/20, and the crosslinking component includes a thiourea-based crosslinking component for crosslinking the bicopolymer E and a sulfur-based vulcanizing component for vulcanizing the nitrile-butadiene rubber N.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more controllable cells and methods for making and using the roll member to control an image (or toner) state thereon. The controllable cells can be disposed on a roll substrate and configured in a manner that each controllable cell can be addressed individually and/or as groups. Each controllable cell can be addressable to provide a surface vibration to release toner particles adhered/attracted thereto and can also be capable of sensing the toner state of the roll member and thus to control the image or toner state. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosed roll member can be used as a donor roll for a development system of an electrophotographic printing machine to create controlled and desired toner powder cloud for high quality image development.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more linear arrays of actuator cells and methods for making and using the roll member. In one embodiment, each linear array of the roll member can be controllably actuated as a group by, e.g., an oscillating voltage, to release toner particles adhered thereto and to form a uniform toner cloud in the development area between the roll member and an image receiving member. The controllable actuation can also aid in the unloading process of the residual toner particles from the roll member. In various embodiments, the uniform toner cloud and/or the controllable unloading process can enable a non-interactive development system for image-on-image full-color printing.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more piezoelectric tape and methods for making and using the roll member. The piezoelectric tape can be flexible and include a plurality of piezoelectric elements configured in a manner that the piezoelectric elements can be addressed individually or as groups with various numbers of elements in each group. In an exemplary embodiment, the disclosed roll member can be used as a donor roll for a development system of an electrophotographic printing machine to create controlled and desired toner powder cloud for high quality image development, such as an image on image development in a hybrid scavengeless development (HSD) system.

Abstract: A roller of a printing machine includes a device for use in the generation of an axial oscillating movement of the rotating roller. The device includes a drive that is comprised of a pump which pressurizes a working fluid. The pump is arranged inside of the roller.

Abstract: Disclosed are overcoat layers comprising an acrylic resin crosslinked with a glycoluril resin. The overcoat layers are useful in bias charge rollers because they reduce streaking and increase service lifetime.

Abstract: Provided are charge-controlled polyurethane foam by which the influence of electrification by friction between toner on the surface layer of a toner-conveying roller and a developing roller can be sufficiently prevented and by which a good image can be stably obtained with a low cost, and a toner-conveying roller using the same. The charge-controlled polyurethane foam is the one wherein the surface layer of the polyurethane foam is impregnated with a charge control agent which is on the negative side or on the positive side in the triboelectric series with respect to substrate polyurethane foam. The toner-conveying roller is the one which supports the charge-controlled polyurethane foam on the periphery of the axis of the roller.

Abstract: A magnetic field generating member with high stiffness and small size, an image development device, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus including the magnetic field generating member as well as a manufacturing method of the magnetic field generating member are provided where the magnetic field generating member includes a main body, a groove provided in the main body, an interposition member configured to be fitted in the groove of the main body and including a concave portion and a magnetic member as a long magnetic compact fixed into the concave portion of the interposition member.

Abstract: A roll assembly with a roll and rotational bearings. The rolls exhibits a reinforcement with a fiber composite material which is located inside the roll. The reinforcement is located between the rotational bearings, and designed such that the roll is reinforced against bending stress. The roll assembly is optimized with a low moment of inertia and high stiffness in order to allow the roll assembly to be stopped faster in the event of malfunction and to ensure that the roll exhibits low bowing in the operational state.

Abstract: A developing device has a developer bearing member, a housing adapted to accommodate a developer, and a supply roller adapted to supply the developer within the housing for the developer bearing member. The supply roller has an outer circumferencial foam layer made of resin or rubber. The foam layer has an air permeability of 150-200 ml/cm2/s, a hardness of 50-200 N, and an average cell density of 20-40 per 25 mm width.

Abstract: A charging roll is provided which does not cause image defects even when being used for a long period of time and does not allow a surface layer to be separated when an electrophotographic machine is operated after the charging roll installed therein is left under high temperature and humidity conditions. A charging roll includes a shaft, an electrically conductive rubber foam layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, and a surface layer formed radially outwardly of the electrically conductive rubber foam layer. The electrically conductive rubber foam layer includes a skin layer having an opening area ratio of from 0.5 to 20% at a superficial layer of the electrically conductive rubber foam layer, and the surface layer is formed of a synthetic resin composition mainly composed of a synthetic resin material having a glass transition temperature of from 0 to 45° C.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a method of producing a developing roller capable of providing high-quality electrophotographic images under a variety of environments. The method of producing a developing roller according to the present invention is a method of producing a developing roller having a mandrel, a resin layer on the outer periphery of the mandrel, and a surface layer on the outer periphery of the resin layer, the method including the step of curing a mixture containing a carbon black, a specific diol, and a specific isocyanate compound to form the surface layer.

Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic developing member which can both be kept from the sticking of a developer and be kept from being deformed by its contacting members, and can form stable images over a long period of time. An electrophotographic developing member characterized in that its surface layer satisfies the following expressions (1) to (3) where the average crosslinking density in each region of up to 100 nm in depth, from 100 nm to 200 nm in depth and from 200 nm to 300 nm in depth from the surface of the surface layer is represented by C1, C2 and C3 (mol/cm3), respectively: C3<C2<C1;??(1) C3×1.3?C1?C3×5.0; and??(2) 2.0×10?4?C3?7.0×10?4.

Abstract: To provide a conductive rubber member which exhibits small variation in electrical resistance and a stable electrical resistance for a long period of time. The conductive rubber member include a conductive elastic layer formed of a rubber material which has been imparted with electrical conductivity, wherein the conductive elastic layer has a surface-treatment layer which has been produced through impregnating a surface portion of the conductive elastic layer with a surface-treating liquid containing an isocyanate compound and carbon black which has undergone dispersion treatment.

Abstract: A rotating member of a printing press is typically a cylinder that is provided with a circumferential area. A securement channel or a flow channel, which is at least partly open toward the circumferential area of the cylinder, is formed in the cylinder. A profiled member, which at least partly covers the securement channel or flow channel, with respect to its circumferential area, is inserted into the cylinder to form an integrated joint with the cylinder.

Abstract: A printing press having inboard cantilevered cylinder supports is disclosed. The press includes a frame with a drive side spaced from a non-drive side, and the press includes a cylinder defining an having an axis and having a drive end and a non-drive end. The drive end includes a drive aperture extending axially into the cylinder and a splined insert mounted within the drive aperture, while the non-drive end includes a non-drive aperture extending axially into the cylinder. A drive shaft is rotatably mounted to the drive side of the frame and is arranged for connection to a power source. The drive shaft includes a spline sized to engage the splined insert and is arranged to a portion of the cylinder, while a mandrel carried by the non-drive side of the frame extends into the non-drive aperture and is arranged to support another portion of the cylinder.

Abstract: A roller usable with an image forming apparatus includes a shaft, a body formed on an outer surface of the shaft, and a tube disposed on an outer surface of the body. The tube is formed so that opposite side end portions of the tube contact opposite side surfaces of the body. The opposite side end portions of the tube are heated and pressurized so as to be secured on the opposite side surfaces of the body.

Abstract: A conductive rubber roller comprising a conductive core material and provided thereon a rubber layer; the rubber layer being formed by using a rubber composition containing as rubber components at least a polar rubber and an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-allyl glycidyl ether terpolymer; the ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-allyl glycidyl ether terpolymer having a melt peak temperature of from 20 to 30° C. and a melt enthalpy change ?H of from 40 to 70 mJ/mg as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter; and the allyl glycidyl ether in the ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-allyl glycidyl ether terpolymer being in a copolymerization ratio of from more than 10 mol % to 20 mol % or less.

Abstract: A developing roller having a surface layer which contains a urethane resin composed of a reaction product of an isocyanate with a group of specific alcohols and has a surface having a contact angle to ethylene glycol of from 60.0 degrees or more to 90.0 degrees or less and a contact angle to diiodomethane of from 30.0 degrees or more to 38.0 degrees or less. The developing roller is highly reliable as having controlled banding which is an image difficulty caused at the part of contact between the developing roller and a developer feed roller.

Abstract: 1. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 8% and the transverse direction shrinkage rate is 2 to 8%, upon heating to 150° C. 2. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction expansion rate is 0.5 to 4% and the transverse direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 6%, upon heating to 150° C. 3. A fluororesin tube in which the machine direction shrinkage rate is 1 to 8% and the transverse direction expansion rate is 1 to 4%, upon heating to 150° C.

Abstract: An apparatus and method support rollers with a shaft along an axis absent of deflection of the shaft. Under load, the shaft deflects and the rollers reorient themselves along the shaft such that outer circumferential surfaces of the rollers are substantially parallel to the undeflected axis.

Abstract: A conductive roller comprising a toner-transporting portion, made of a vulcanized rubber composition, which is disposed at least on an outermost layer thereof. The vulcanized rubber composition contains a rubber component (A) mixed with a weakly conductive carbon black (B) having a large particle diameter not less than 80 nm nor more than 500 nm, a highly conductive carbon black (C) having a small particle diameter not less than 18 nm nor more than 80 nm, and an inorganic filler (D) consisting of not less than one kind of a metal oxide selected from among a group of titanium oxide, alumina, and silica. The total of a mixing amount of the weakly conductive carbon black (B), that of the highly conductive carbon black (C), and that of the inorganic filler (D) for 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (A) is not less than 15 parts by mass nor more than 60 parts by mass.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus feeds a paper picked up by a pickup roller directly to a photoconductive drum and controls a linear velocity of the pickup roller so that it is slower than that of the photoconductive drum. The different linear velocities of the pickup roller and the photoconductive drum produces different velocities at the transfer nip (the area of contact between the photoconductive drum and a transferring roller) and the point where paper is picked up by the pickup roller. To compensate for the different velocities, the pickup roller can be rotated faster than the photoconductive drum for an angle that corresponds to the velocity difference. Additionally, when a velocity difference occurs between two rollers for feeding the paper, one of the rollers can be further rotated to compensate for the velocity difference.

Abstract: A development roller is provided which can ensure a desired surface roughness and roller hardness even when an elastic layer has not sufficient solvent resistance and which can be preferably used for a long period of time without generating any peeling of a coating film during a continuous long operation. In the development roller, an underlying conductive layer having at least one sublayer and a surface resin layer are provided on the elastic layer in that order. The elastic layer is formed of a foam material having a closed cell structure, the underlying conductive layer is formed from a water-based paint containing a conductive agent, and one of the sublayers of the underlying conductive layer that is in contact with the elastic layer is at least primarily composed of a chloroprene-methacrylic acid copolymer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing register errors on a web of material (04) moving through the printing nip of a multicolor web-fed rotary press, comprising the following steps: providing a portion between an area of the web of material (04) located between the two lateral edges of the web of material (04) and areas in the vicinity of the lateral edges of the web of material with a deformation relative each other in a direction perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the web of material (04) subject to a register error occurring in the direction of rotation of the web of material (04).

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photoreceptor drum exceedingly advantageous for obtaining clear images free from positional image shifting and image blurring. In the invention, a photoreceptor drum is constituted of a drum main body and a first and second flange members to be attached respectively to both lengthwise-direction ends of the drum main body. The drum main body is constituted of a cylindrical body and a photosensitive layer formed on the surface of the cylindrical body, and the cylindrical body has a fitting hole formed in each end thereof. The first and second flange members have cylindrical parts to be fitted into and fixed to the fitting holes in the drum main body, and further have shaft support parts. The photoreceptor drum has been formed so that the radial deflection thereof based on a central axis L connecting the centers of the shaft support parts of the first and second flange members is 15 ?m or less.

Abstract: A roll useful in fusing marking material to a print sheet includes a coating disposed on at least a portion of the inner surface thereof. A lamp disposed inside the roll supplies radiant energy to the inner surface. The coating changes its absorptivity (such as color) as desired, to obtain specific desired temperatures at different portions of the roll. The coating can be thermochromic, changing its absorptivity in response to local temperature; or electrochromic, changing its absorptivity in response to an external electrical stimulus.

Abstract: A roller for transporting a recording medium includes an inner layer having a shaft hole through which a rotating shaft passes; and an outer layer formed outside the inner layer and brought into contact with the recording medium. At least a first end surface of the inner layer in a direction along the rotating shaft is located inside the outer layer remote from end surfaces of the outer layer in the direction along the rotating shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cylinder, which is in contact with a material web. Said cylinder flexes in or against the direction of travel of the material web, in accordance with at least one pixel that is located on said web.

Abstract: Provided are photosensitive body or bodies 31b carrying toner; transfer roller(s) 31d, rotating and coming in contact with photosensitive body or bodies 31b, for causing toner image(s) formed on photosensitive body or bodies 31b to be electrostatically relocated onto paper 5; and paper transport means disposed upstream in transport direction(s) from transfer roller(s) 31d and comprising drive roller(s) 36d1 and idler roller(s) 36d2 holding lead edge portion(s) 5a of paper 5 in nip(s) formed therebetween and rotating so as to cause transport of same; drive roller(s) 36d1 and idler roller(s) 36d2 being disposed to the side, on which photosensitive body or bodies 31b is or are present, of a plane L more or less tangent to nip(s) formed between photosensitive body or bodies 31b and transfer roller(s) 31d; and direction(s) R of transport of paper from drive roller(s) 36d1 and idler roller(s) 36d2 being disposed so as to be directed toward transfer roller(s) 31d.

Abstract: A developing roller is provided having an elastic layer and a surface layer superposed thereon. The surface layer is formed of a resin material containing nitrogen atoms, and contains at least two types of particles, organic-compound particles (M) and organic-compound particles (N). The particles (N) are composed of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-compound particles. The number-average particle diameter of the particles (N) in the surface layer is smaller than the number-average particle diameter of the particles (M) in the surface layer. Where the universal hardness of the elastic layer is represented by A and the universal hardness of the developing roller is represented by B, they satisfies 0.9?B/A?1.8.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a charging device including a charge roller formed with annular grooves at opposite end portions thereof and configured to charge an image carrier. Annular gap forming members each are fitted in the annular grooves for forming a gap between the charge roller and the image carrier. The gap forming members each have an area of 1.0×10?6 m2 to 3.0×10?6 m2 in a section containing the axis of the charge roller.

Abstract: A follower roller is brought into press contact with a driving roller by a load having a predetermined value, thereby being rotated in accordance with a rotation of the driving roller to transport the medium clamped therebetween in a first direction. The follower roller includes a shaft portion and a roller body provided so as to surround the shaft portion. The follower roller is configured such that a value of a ratio f/F is not greater than 0.03. Here, F is a force transporting the medium in the first direction which is generated by the load, and f is a resistance force generated in a second direction opposite to the first direction by a friction loss of the shaft portion of the follower roller which is generated by the load.

Abstract: A recycle developer bearing body which is an effective recycle of a used developer bearing body, helps effective utilization of resources, and does not result in image quality degradation, such as developer concentration unevenness. In the recycle developer bearing body, even when scars or other defects are developed on a developer bearing surface of the developer bearing body from previous use, a surface roughness Ra of the developer bearing surface having the scars or other defects of the developer bearing body is 0.8 ?m or more.

Abstract: A method of assembling a developing apparatus comprises, forming a recess in the outer circumference of a pair of holding members, fitting a first positioning pin of an adjustment jig into the recess without a clearance, after the fitting, fitting a concave support member on a second positioning pin without a clearance, and positioning and mounting them, after the fitting, separating the first and second positioning pins of the adjustment jig from the recess and the support member, after the separation, assembling a pair of holding members in one body with a predetermined interval, and after the assembly, mounting a plurality of developing rollers by fitting both ends of the center shaft into the recess of the pair of holding members and the concave support member, respectively.

Abstract: A foamed elastic member according to the invention comprises an elastic member made of polyurethane foam molded by an in-mold foaming process, and has properly determined physical properties of its surface and/or properly determined shape and arrangement of foam cells opened on the surface. The foamed elastic member is suitably used for a toner feed roller in a developing device for electrically charging toner from a toner storage portion, feeding the toner onto the surface of a photosensitive member and forming a toner image corresponding to an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the photosensitive member. In this case, it exhibits an excellent toner scraping and toner feeding performance, to form an image free from such defect as irregularity in pitch and density, or free from reduction in density.

Abstract: A web-fed, multicolor, offset printing press having a plurality of printing units for printing different-color images on a continuous web of paper. Each printing unit includes a three-part plate cylinder rotatably supported between a pair of confronting framing walls. The plate cylinder is split into three parts which each have two newspaper pages width. The three parts of the plate cylinder are each capable of adjustable displacement both laterally and circumferentially of the plate cylinder for registration. Lateral and circumferential adjustments for the three parts of the plate cylinder are all mounted outside the framing walls.