With Rubber Or Elastomer Cover Patents (Class 492/56)
  • Publication number: 20040157717
    Abstract: A roll cover particularly suitable for a fuser roll has an intermediate layer on the roll body and an outer surface layer including heat transfer bodies therein. The intermediate layer is a graphite sheet having legs extending along the axial extent of the roll body. The outer layer has graphite fibers embedded therein, the graphite fibers extending axially with respect to the roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Hieyoung W. Oh, Charles A. King
  • Publication number: 20040152575
    Abstract: A semi-conductive roll including a shaft, a low-hardness base layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, and a coating layer formed by coating radially outwardly of the low-hardness base layer, wherein the coating layer is formed such that a rubber material or an elastomer material is crosslinked by at least one resin crosslinking agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kaji, Motoharu Ishihara, Hirofumi Okuda, Yasuki Ohtake
  • Publication number: 20040147383
    Abstract: A conductive roller including a core metal and a conductive elastic layer disposed on a peripheral surface of the core metal. The conductive roller has an electrostatic capacity not more than 50 pF at 100 Hz and an electric resistance not less than 105&OHgr; nor more than 109 &OHgr; at an applied voltage 1000V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Kenichi Uesaka, Takayuki Hattori, Jun Ochi
  • Publication number: 20040136753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charging member for charging a surface of a member to be charged in an image-forming apparatus, and one aspect of the present invention provides a charging member having an outermost surface layer containing a conductive elastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisao Kato, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Jun Murata
  • Patent number: 6761673
    Abstract: A liquid form addition curable silicone rubber composition for forming a fluororesin covered fixing roller is provided. This composition includes (a) 100 parts by weight of an organopolysiloxane with at least two alkenyl groups bonded to non-terminal silicon atoms; (b) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane with at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms, in a sufficient quantity to produce a molar ratio of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms within said constituent (b) relative to silicon-bonded alkenyl groups within said constituent (a) of 0.4 to 5.0; (c) an effective quantity of a platinum based catalyst; (d) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of dry process silica; and (e) 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of a cyclic diorganopolysiloxane with at least three silicon-bonded alkenyl groups. This composition is used for formation of the silicone rubber layer of a fixing roller made up of a metal core, a silicone rubber layer on the core, and a fluorine based coating provided on the rubber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeki Shudo
  • Publication number: 20040132597
    Abstract: A pressure roller capable of stably transporting a paper and a film without deteriorating inherent rubber elasticity while achieving low heat conductivity and formation of finely foamed cell is developed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a heating apparatus employing the improved pressure roller and an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine or a printer employing the heating apparatus as an image fixing device. The pressure roller includes a core metal, an elastic layer of cured rubber composition at least containing a water-absorbing polymer containing water and a surface releasing layer laminated on an outer periphery of the core metal. A compression amount (y) of the elastic layer satisfies the following relationship: y≦0.8 (mm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Yoji Tomoyuki, Yusuke Nakazono
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20040110617
    Abstract: An electroconductive rubber roller (10) whose outermost layer consists of a rubber layer (1) made of a rubber composition containing an ionic-conductive rubber as a main component thereof. The surface of the rubber layer consists of an oxide film; and the rubber composition contains a dielectric loss tangent-adjusting filler to set a dielectric loss tangent of the electroconductive rubber roller to 0.1 to 1.5. Weak electroconductive carbon black and/or calcium carbonate treated with fatty acid can be used as the dielectric loss tangent-adjusting filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Mizumoto
  • Patent number: 6742453
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for producing a novel flexographic printing sleeve which is readily axially mountable on and dismountable from a complementary shaped printing cylinder. The subject method comprises providing an apparatus for receiving a sprayed curable polymeric material and for forming the flexographic printing sleeve. Then, the curable polymeric material is sprayed onto the apparatus and a flexographic printing sleeve is formed. The sleeve has a substantially unitary, non-laminated construction which is self-supporting. The cross-sectional inner and outer diameter of the flexographic printing sleeve is expandable by introducing a relatively low pressure fluid between the inner surface of the printing body sleeve and the outer cylindrically-shaped wall of the printing cylinder. The flexographic printing sleeve is contractible from its expanded position by releasing the low pressure fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Inventor: Mark Alan Borski
  • Patent number: 6739051
    Abstract: A pressure roller for a fixing device is manufactured by extruding silicone rubber on a shaft, foaming the extruded silicone rubber, subjecting the foamed silicone rubber to primary and secondary heat treatments, polishing the heat-treated silicone rubber, and then disposing the polished silicone rubber in a resin tube. In accordance with one embodiment, the pressure roller includes a shaft, a first silicone rubber layer formed on the shaft so as to surround the shaft, a resin tube formed on the first silicone rubber layer so as to surround the shaft, the resin tube having extensions at opposite ends thereof, each extension extending beyond the opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer, and second silicone rubber layers formed at respective opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer between the extensions of the resin tube and the shaft. The second silicone rubber layers serve to couple the first silicone rubber layer to the resin tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seo-Won Park
  • Patent number: 6740405
    Abstract: A liquid form addition curing type silicone rubber composition for roll forming purposes is provided which displays excellent stability and little variation in viscosity over time at room temperature, and yet also offers excellent curability at high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeki Shudo
  • Publication number: 20040087423
    Abstract: A paper machine roll cover surface layer has a mixture of an elastomeric material and between about 10 phr and about 24 phr UHMWPE particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventor: Romeo G. Vergara
  • Patent number: 6729466
    Abstract: A roller body having a shaft formed from a first thermoplastic material and defining at least one roller. The shaft is a single component injection-molded shaft. A casing at least partially encases the roller and is formed from a second thermoplastic material different from the first thermoplastic material. The casing is bonded to the roller by an injection-molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Sarnatech BNL Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephan Lerch, Thomas Rutishauser
  • Publication number: 20040082451
    Abstract: A method of producing an electrically conductive roll having a proper crown shape at lower costs through a smaller number of process steps and without polishing. In this production method, a crown-shaped rubber layer is formed unitarily on a metal core by variably controlling the amount of a rubber material adhering on the metal core along the length of the metal core during extrusion of the rubber material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro Miyamori, Yasuyuki Hayasaki, Masanari Umeda
  • Patent number: 6716502
    Abstract: Fuser members and processes are provided for crosslinked fluorocarbon elastomer surfaces containing a fluorocarbon elastomer and a non-amino crosslinker together with methods for providing a crosslinked fluorocarbon elastomer surface on a fuser member supporting substrate which include mixing together an acid acceptor, an emulsifier, water, and non-amino based crosslinker with a latex fluorocarbon elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Santokh S. Badesha, Clifford O. Eddy, David J. Gervasi, George J. Heeks, Arnold W. Henry
  • Publication number: 20040058791
    Abstract: An electrically conductive roll including a center shaft, an electrically conductive elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the center shaft, and a resistance adjusting layer formed radially outwardly of the electrically conductive elastic layer, wherein the resistance adjusting layer is formed of a rubber composition which includes a rubber material, a thermoplastic resin having crosslinkable double bonds, at least one electron-conductive agent, at least one ion-conductive agent, and at least one electrically insulating filler, the thermoplastic resin, the at least one electron-conductive agent, the at least one ion-conductive agent, and the at least one electrically insulating filler being included in the rubber composition in respective amounts of 3-40 parts by weight, 10-150 parts by weight, not greater than 2 parts by weight, and 20-80 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of the rubber material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Takashima, Nobuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tatsumi, Tetsuya Itoh, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Jiro Iwashiro
  • Patent number: 6709373
    Abstract: A pressure roller for a fixing device is manufactured by extruding silicone rubber on a shaft, foaming the extruded silicone rubber, subjecting the foamed silicone rubber to primary and secondary heat treatments, polishing the heat-treated silicone rubber, and then disposing the polished silicone rubber in a resin tube. In accordance with one embodiment, the pressure roller includes a shaft, a first silicone rubber layer formed on the shaft so as to surround the shaft, a resin tube formed on the first silicone rubber layer so as to surround the shaft, the resin tube having extensions at opposite ends thereof, each extension extending beyond the opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer, and second silicone rubber layers formed at respective opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer between the extensions of the resin tube and the shaft. The second silicone rubber layers serve to couple the first silicone rubber layer to the resin tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seo-Won Park
  • Patent number: 6703094
    Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive mandrel, a semiconductive foamed elastic layer provided on the periphery of the mandrel, and a functional double-layer film provided on the periphery of the semiconductive foamed elastic layer. The semiconductive foamed elastic layer is a layer formed by making the mandrel and a semiconductive rubber composition standing uncured and unfoamed pass through a crosshead die of an extruder to set the composition on the periphery of the mandrel, followed by curing and foaming. The semiconductive rubber composition has a Mooney viscosity of from 15 to 30 and has a curing percentage of 40% or less when the foaming pressure reaches 50%. The functional double-layer film is a double-layer tube having a thin layer such that a tube formed out of only the layer is hard to use for covering. Also disclosed are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have such a charging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kakii, Toshimitsu Nakazawa, Kan Ikeda, Takeshi Suzuki, Daisuke Yamada, Mie Takahashi, Kenji Ishii
  • Publication number: 20040035683
    Abstract: A roller drive unit for transporting items of freight in an aircraft cargo hold is provided in which a drive motor is coupled to a drive roller. The drive roller comprises a core and a covering fastened thereto that has an outer surface that can be brought into frictional contact with a bottom of an item of freight in order to transport said item. So that high durability can be achieved even when the material used for the covering is relatively soft, it is proposed that the covering should comprise at least one delimiting layer, so constructed and so disposed between at least one inner covering layer and an outer covering layer that on one hand the covering layers are firmly connected to one another and on the other hand a spreading of a fissure from the one covering layer into the other covering layer is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas Huber
  • Patent number: 6695756
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an elastic roll is provided including winding at least one fiber bundle comprising of a plurality of fibers to form fiber layers onto a hardroll core, the fiber layers being formed to lie on top of one another, with a direction of winding of the fibers being essentially parallel to one another and at an angle to a peripheral direction of the roll core, wherein fiber layers lying on top of one another are wound alternately in an identical but opposite manner to form a cross-composite layer; winding a damping fiber layer with fiber bundles of a uniform angular position onto the cross-composite layer, with an angular position of these fiber bundles being substantially flatter, relative to a longitudinal axis of the roll, than the angular positions of the fiber bundles of the cross-composite layer; and winding another cross-composite layer again onto the damping fiber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Sohl
  • Patent number: 6692422
    Abstract: A roll has a base material layer, a front surface layer, and stress relaxation layer. The base material layer is made of low hardness rubber material and provided on an outer circumference of a metal core. The stress relaxation layer is provided on the base material layer and made of material which is at least higher in hardness than the base material layer and larger in stretch than the front surface layer. The front surface layer is made of resin material and provided on the stress relaxation layer. The stress relaxation layer is made of rubber material containing self-crosslinking resin. The stress relaxation layer has a thickness in a range of from 5 to 50 &mgr;m, and stress not lower than 5 MPa at 10% stretch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Yukio Ohyama, Tsutomu Saito, Naoaki Sasakibara
  • Publication number: 20040027548
    Abstract: A thermal development apparatus for developing a thermal development film, having a heating section, which has at least a partially cylindrical surface for transporting and heating the film; plural parallel pressing rollers for pressing the film onto the cylindrical surface;
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Sumi, Akira Taguchi
  • Patent number: 6685612
    Abstract: A developing roller has a roller core, an electrically conductive layer provided on a circumferential surface of the roller core, and a covering layer provided on the outer circumferential surface of the conductive layer. The covering layer is formed by subjecting a reaction mixture containing a fluorine-containing polyol, a reactive silicone oil having an active hydrogen, and an isocyanate compound, to a reaction condition for reacting the fluorine-containing polyol and the reactive silicone oil with the isocyanate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Nitto Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naka Hirayama
  • Patent number: 6684042
    Abstract: In order to solve the problem, there is provided a charging device having: a roll-like charging member disposed in contact with a surface of a member to be charged and for charging the surface of the member to be charged; wherein: the charging member includes a conductive substrate, and at least an elastic layer and a surface layer applied sequentially onto a surface of the conductive substrate; and opposite end portions of the surface layer axially project beyond opposite end portions of the elastic layer respectively, while the opposite end portions of the surface layer are made to cover the elastic layer and made open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Nagamori, Yutaka Kanai, Yasuo Takayama, Yasutomo Ishii
  • Publication number: 20040014573
    Abstract: A paper machine roll cover surface layer has a mixture of an elastomeric material and HDPE particles. The HDPE particles have surface modification to improve roll cover performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Romeo G. Vergara
  • Publication number: 20040014574
    Abstract: Impression roller (10) for a laminating machine for producing a packaging material which comprises a carcass layer (40) consisting of paper or carton, which carcass layer exhibits through holes (42), and which carcass layer exhibits, on one of its sides, a barrier layer (44), a plastic lining (46, 47) which is arranged outside the barrier layer, and a film of laminant thermoplast (43) which is arranged between the carcass layer (40) and the barrier layer (44), with the said impression roller exhibiting a jacket surface which is faced with an inner facing layer (12) consisting of an elastic material, exhibiting a first hardness and a first thickness. According to the invention, an outer facing layer (13) consisting of an elastic material, exhibiting a second hardness and a second thickness, with the said first hardness being greater than the said second hardness and with the said first thickness being greater than the said second thickness, is arranged on the outside of the said inner facing layer (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Rolf Lasson
  • Patent number: 6671958
    Abstract: A roll for a paper or board machine is produced by forming a tubular roll blank by bending out of a planar sheet or by means of centrifugal casting. The roll blank is first coated with a material having a modulus of elasticity and a density lower than those of steel and the coated roll blank is turned on a lathe to a desired shape and to a desired surface quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Eero Savolainen, Jorma Snellman
  • Patent number: 6669613
    Abstract: A printing roller system includes a hollow, cylindrical mandrel which is closed at opposite ends thereof, with an air inlet in one end and a radial bore extending through the mandrel; journal members rotatably holding the mandrel; a resilient and compressible covering layer fixedly mounted on the mandrel and including a cut-away groove in fluid communication with the radial bore; an inelastic printing sleeve removably mounted on the covering layer; and a pressurized air supply connected with the air inlet for supplying the pressurized air to an interior of the mandrel and out through the radial bore and the cut-away groove to a position between at least a portion of the sleeve and the covering layer in order to compress the covering layer and permit mounting of the sleeve on the covering layer and dismounting of the sleeve from the covering layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Mark E. Van Denend
  • Patent number: 6666806
    Abstract: A elastomer-covered roller (10) is provided with an improved bond coating for bonding the elastomeric cover (14b) to the core (11b). At least one layer of material (21) is thermally sprayed on the core (11b) to form a rough surface having a roughness from 400 microinches Ra to 2000 microinches Ra or greater. At least one layer (21, 25, 26, 31, 32) is either sufficiently permeable to divert bond-degrading fluids away from the bond line (22, 27, 33) or is impermeable to bond-degrading fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: American Roller Company, LLC
    Inventors: Paul J. Kaprelian, Gary S. Butters, Bruce E. Hyllberg
  • Patent number: 6660399
    Abstract: A composition for roller for an electronic copying machine or printer which comprises a vinyl polymer (A) having at least one alkenyl group per molecule, and a roller as fabricated using said composition for roller. The present invention provides a composition for roller for an electronic copying machine or printer with which an alcohol-soluble nylon layer can be directly constructed on the roller without a primer or other pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kitano, Yoshiki Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 6660351
    Abstract: A pressure member for use in fixing toner to a receiver comprises a support an intermediate layer disposed on the support, and an outermost layer formed from a cured composition comprising a fluorocarbon thermoplastic random copolymer, a curing agent, a particulate filler containing zinc oxide, and a curable aminosiloxane, wherein the fluorocarbon thermoplastic random copolymer has subunits of: —(CH2CF2)x—, —(CF2CF(CF3)y—, and —(CF2CF2)z—, wherein x is from 1 to 40 or 60 to 80 mole percent, y is from 10 to 90 mole percent, z is from 10 to 90 mole percent, and x+y+z equals 100 mole percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jiann Hsing Chen, Joseph A. Pavlisko, Robert Arthur Lancaster, Charles Eugene Hewitt
  • Patent number: 6652433
    Abstract: An oil application roller has a core shaft and an oil retention/supply layer formed to cover the outer peripheral surface of the core shaft. The oil retention/supply layer includes a porous elastic material which exhibits no substantial swelling against an offset-preventing oil used, and is impregnated with a mixture containing an offset-preventing oil and a curable oil-retention material. The curable oil-retention material is cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignees: Nitto Kogyo Co. Ltd., Hodaka Kogyo
    Inventors: Youichi Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Serizawa
  • Publication number: 20030216234
    Abstract: Roller being intended to be in contact with toner particles, said roller being provided with a cured resin layer comprising carbon black aggregates and having a thickness of less than 200 &mgr;m,
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: ICT COATINGS N.V.
    Inventor: Gino Sirejacob
  • Patent number: 6647849
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a device for varying a cylinder's effective diameter. It includes a shell member being removably mounted on a surface of a cylinder. On the easy exchangeable shell member having a base plate an elastic material is provided allowing for a compressible surface gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen
    Inventor: Jackson Hacker Jones
  • Patent number: 6648807
    Abstract: In a conductive rubber roller including a conductive support and a rubber layer, the rubber layer includes a component (A), an epichlorohydrin rubber containing 40 mol % or more of ethylene oxide, and a component (B), an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber component having an acrylonitrile content of 20% by weight or less. The component (A) is in a proportion of 5 or more to less than 25 in weight ratio, based on a total weight of the components (A) and (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Hashimoto, Masayuki Takahashi, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 6640866
    Abstract: A laminating method of forming a pre-press proof (200) which comprises the steps of forming a lamination sandwich (210); placing lamination sandwich (210) at the entrance to a laminator (10) such that the lamination sandwich (210) passes through a nip portion (220) formed by a first lamination roller (120) and a second lamination roller (130) and, wherein at least one of the first lamination roller (120) or second lamination roller (130) comprises a substantially solid core (330), a first deformable layer (250) having a 60-80 durometer and surrounding the substantially solid core (330), and a second deformable layer (260) having a 20-60 durometer and surrounding the first deformable layer (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Roger S. Kerr, Martin L. Slade
  • Publication number: 20030191000
    Abstract: A pressure roller for a fixing device is manufactured by extruding silicone rubber on a shaft, foaming the extruded silicone rubber, subjecting the foamed silicone rubber to primary and secondary heat treatments, polishing the heat-treated silicone rubber, and then disposing the polished silicone rubber in a resin tube. In accordance with one embodiment, the pressure roller includes a shaft, a first silicone rubber layer formed on the shaft so as to surround the shaft, a resin tube formed on the first silicone rubber layer so as to surround the shaft, the resin tube having extensions at opposite ends thereof, each extension extending beyond the opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer, and second silicone rubber layers formed at respective opposite ends of the first silicone rubber layer between the extensions of the resin tube and the shaft. The second silicone rubber layers serve to couple the first silicone rubber layer to the resin tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventor: Seo-Won Park
  • Patent number: 6625412
    Abstract: A charging member for charging a member to be charged includes: an electrically conductive member to which a voltage is applicable; and a coating layer that coats the electrically conductive member, in which when a d.c. voltage of |10| to |300| (V) is applied to the electrically conductive member, the following relationship is satisfied: Z/Ra is 0.7 or less, where Z is the standard deviation of a resistance of the charging member, and Ra is an average value of the resistance of the charging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Takami, Miyuki Oki
  • Patent number: 6620476
    Abstract: A nonbleeding bias charging member having an outer layer on a supporting substrate with fluorinated carbon and zinc oxide dispersed in the outer layer material, where bleeding of contaminants to imaging members is decreased or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Ihor W. Tarnawskyj, Kock-Yee Law, Martin A. Abkowitz, Frederick E. Knier, Jr., James B. Maliborski
  • Patent number: 6616584
    Abstract: A elastomer-covered roller (10) is provided with an improved bond coating for bonding the elastomeric cover (14) to the core (11). At least one layer of material (15) is thermally sprayed on the core to form a rough surface having a roughness from 400 microinches Ra to 2000 microinches Ra or greater. In a further improvement a denser, less porous layer (17) may be applied next to the core to protect the core from corrosion, followed by a less dense layer (19) applied to the first layer and having a similarly rough surface (20) for good mechanical bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: American Roller Company, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce E. Hyllberg, Gary S. Butters, Gregory T. Squires, Paul J. Kaprelian
  • Patent number: 6615721
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a tubular printing blanket comprising a sleeve translation device for moving a sleeve, the sleeve providing a support layer for the printing blanket; and at least one ribbon casting device applying a flowable material, the flowable material forming a layer disposed over the sleeve. Also disclosed is a method for forming a tubular printing blanket comprising the steps of translating a sleeve in a first direction and ribbon casting at least one of a compressible layer, reinforcing layer and a print layer about the sleeve as the sleeve translates. A related blanket is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: James Brian Vrotacoe, Roland Thomas Palmatier
  • Publication number: 20030153443
    Abstract: A method for making an elastic roller for a pressing apparatus comprising a plurality of rollers to define at least one chamber therebetween comprises the step of: providing at least one cavity below the roller surface of said elastic roller in the region of at least one roller end for cooperation with at least one raised portion provided on said elastic roller in the region of the roller end or on a counter roller of said pressing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: David A. Beck
  • Publication number: 20030153444
    Abstract: A toner supply roller comprises a metallic core shaft and an electrically conductive elastic layer formed to surround the outer surface of the shaft. The conductive elastic layer is formed of open-cell polyurethane foam. The polyurethane foam is impregnated with an electrically conductive polymer and a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: Nitto Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakashima, Toru Nishino, Takeo Taniguchi, Ikuo Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20030139270
    Abstract: A development roller of an electric-photographic machine is manufactured by a method of mixing a base material of either NBR rubber or HYDRIN rubber, an electric conductive high-molecule-weight material to adjust an electric resistivity of the development roller, and peroxide as a cross-link agent cross-linking the base material and the electric conductive high-molecule-weight material in a three-dimensional structure, forming the development roller from a mixture of the base material, the electric conductive high-molecule-weight material, and peroxide, and irradiating the development roller with ultraviolet light to adjust a friction coefficient of a surface of the development roller. Accordingly, the development roller has characteristics of a low electric resistivity even with a single layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee-Won Jung, Jong-Moon Eun
  • Patent number: 6595907
    Abstract: A heat roller for a fixing device included in an image forming apparatus has an insulation layer and a conductive layer sequentially formed on the inner periphery thereof. To form each of the insulation layer and conductive layer, a spray gun is inserted into the heat roller. Subsequently, paint, which is a liquid for forming the insulation layer or the conductive layer, is fed under pressure to the spray gun. The paint is radially jetted via the holes of the spray gun and evenly deposits on the inner surface of the heat roller. In this condition, the spray gun is moved in a preselected direction in order to coat the entire inner periphery of the heat roller. After the insulation layer has been formed and then sintered, the conductive layer is formed on the insulation layer and then sintered. The two layers can be formed in a short period of time and provides the heat roller with high quality at low cost. A method of producing the heat roller is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Origin Electric Company, Limited, Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuji Ishikawa, Takayuki Kuga, Yasuhiro Genjima, Haruo Ninomiya, Youichi Ueda, Kazunori Kon
  • Patent number: 6589648
    Abstract: A roll of material, e.g., thermoplastic ribbon comprises a hollow core made of a plastic strip of which the ends are mutually joined by overlapping, and the core's outer surface facing the material to be wound being of a nature opposing slippage of the material on it. The plastic strip includes an adhesive-coated foil of which the adhesive-fitted surface forms the outer core surface facing the material. The first winding layer facing the core bonds to this core and, as a result, the finished roll is made mechanically strong and this strength can be enhanced by an adhesive-coated plastic foil tautly enclosing the outside of the roll and fitted with a projecting, adhesive free or adhesive-neutralized tear-open tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Signode Bernpak GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Schurig
  • Publication number: 20030125177
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a charge roller utilizes a foam rubber substance where epichlorohydrin oxide rubber and an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber are mixed at a ratio of 5:95, or utilizing a crosslinking rubber substance consisting of epichlorohydrin oxide rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene rubber having a polar low molecular polymeric characteristic, thus allowing the charge roller to maintain a low volume resistivity of 107 &OHgr;cm to 108 &OHgr;cm. As a result, the surface of a photosensitive drum can be charged by a minimum charging voltage, to thereby significantly reduce an amount of ozone. A method of manufacturing a charge roller employs peroxide as a cross linking agent for rapidly cross-linking molecular chains between an epichlorohydrin oxide rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene rubber forming a main composition of a foam rubber substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Hae-Seog Jo, Hee-Won Jung
  • Publication number: 20030119639
    Abstract: A curable composition which comprises as essential ingredients (A) an organic polymer having per molecule at least one alkenyl group capable of undergoing hydrosilylation, (B) a compound having at least two hydrosilyl groups per molecule, (C) a hydrosilylation catalyst, (D) carbon black, (E) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of epoxidized compounds, acid anhydride compounds, and ester compounds, and (F) an organotitanium compound and/or an organoaluminum compound. In the composition, the carbon black serving as a conductivity imparter has been surface-treated with the ingredients (E) and (F) by the integral blending method. The conductive material obtained by heat-curing the curable composition has regulated conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Takao Manabe, Jun Kamite, Hidenari Tsunemi
  • Patent number: 6580892
    Abstract: A shaft is disclosed, having good electroconductivity and an electroconductive elastic layer which is formed on the outside periphery of the shaft, and which has a thermal conductivity of at least 0.15 W /m·K; and an image formation apparatus equipped with the developing roller. The above developing roller is capable of suppressing temperature rise of the roller surface, thereby preventing a developer from being adhesively fixed to the roller surface, suppressing wear on the roller surface, suppressing the generation of cracking, crazing and the like on the roller end, and thus affording favorable images for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Takao Ohuchi
  • Patent number: RE38468
    Abstract: A replaceable sleeve having a working surface is provided which is adapted to be mounted on a carrier. The sleeve includes an inner polymeric layer, a reinforcing layer overlying the inner layer, an intermediate polymeric layer overlying the reinforcing layer, and an outer polymeric layer. The sleeve may include a cushion layer between the intermediate layer and the outer layer. The layers comprising the sleeve are formed around a support and then cured simultaneously in a single step. The resulting sleeve may be used in printing operations or in other applications such as coating, embossing, laminating, calendering and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Day International, Inc.
    Inventors: William James Lane, III, Michael Edward McLean, Thomas Gerald Ferguson