Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a solid part, and a device and process of making the solid part. The process includes introducing a glass fiber filled polymeric material to a hopper of an injection molding machine, where the glass fibers have a pre-molding length, melting the glass fiber filled polymeric material to form a melt in a plasticizing unit, pressurizing the plasticizing unit of the injection molding machine with a blowing agent, dissolving the blowing agent into the melt, injecting the melt into a mold cavity up to 100% of volume, and forming the solid part.

Abstract: Provided is a paper feeding roller in which recesses due to deformation are unlikely to be formed even when contact with another roller in one location continues for a comparatively long period of time, particularly as a conveying roller or the like. A paper feeding roller that has a shaft measuring 6 mm in exterior diameter pressure-welded to the outer circumferential surface under a load of 600 g in a high-temperature environment of 60° C. for 24 hours is left at room temperature for eight hours while being pressure-welded, after which the recess amount obtained using the difference (T)0?T1, between the thickness T1 (mm) of the position where the shaft was pressure-welded and the thickness T0 (mm) of a position where the shaft was not pressure-welded, is 0.1 mm or less.

Abstract: A base material for a disk roll including ceramic fibers, an inorganic binder and scaly silica.

Abstract: A swingable exercise bike includes a base, a bike body and multiple cushion units. The base has two horizontal tubes. The bike body is pivotally connected with the base and has a bike frame and two swinging seats. The swinging seats are respectively securely mounted on a front end and a rear end of the bike frame. The cushion units are elastic and are mounted between the horizontal tubes and the swinging seats, each cushion unit having a fixed end and a free end opposite to the fixed end. The cushion units can help the bike body simulate a situation of riding a real bike, and provides fun and variations during exercising.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum that carries a toner image, a developing roller is provided to be capable of rotating while carrying toner and supplies the toner to the photosensitive drum in order to develop a latent image, and a voltage applying device applies a voltage to the developing roller. The developing roller includes a conductive base layer and a surface layer covering the base layer, and a surface charge density of the developing roller is equal to or smaller than a surface charge density of the toner.

Abstract: A recording material image capture device includes light sources radiating light to a recording material, an image capture element receiving the light which is reflected on a surface of the recording material, a cover member provided between the image capture element and the recording material so that the reflected light passes through the cover member, a roller pressing the recording material toward the cover member, and an output portion outputting, based on an image captured by the image capture element, a value related to the recording material to which the light is radiated. The roller is a rotating member which rotates along with movement of the recording material, and the roller includes a recess portion which is prevented from contacting with an entire portion corresponding to the image used for determining the recording material, and projecting portions which are brought into contact with the recording material.

Abstract: A developing roller in which the decay rate of the surface potential is high and in which an image failure caused by the accumulation of electric charge does not occur is provided. The developing roller 10 includes a shaft 1, an elastic layer 2 supported on the outer periphery of the shaft, and at least one coating layer 3, 4 formed on the outer periphery of the elastic layer. The volume resistivity of a layer on the inner periphery side of the elastic layer and the coating layer is smaller than the volume resistivity of a layer on the outer periphery side, and the difference between the volume resistivities of the elastic layer and the coating layer positioned on the outermost periphery side is in the range of 2.8 to 4.3 (Log ?cm).

Abstract: A base material for a disk roll including ceramic fibers, an inorganic binder and scaly silica.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a base material for disks of disk rolls, in which the disk roll contains a rotating shaft and a plurality of the disks fitted on the rotating shaft by insertion whereby the outer peripheral surface of the disks serves as a conveying surface, in which the process contains molding a slurry raw material containing inorganic fibers, an inorganic filler having an aspect ratio of from 1 to 25 and an inorganic binder into a plate shape; and drying the molded plate.

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: This invention provides a process for producing a conductive rubber roller having small aspect ratios of inner and outer diameters, having a stable measure of its inner diameter, having uniform cell distribution and being free from non-uniformity of hardness and electrical resistance in the peripheral direction. The process has a step of continuously extruding a tube composed of a specific unvulcanized rubber composition from a rubber extruder in a microwave vulcanizing unit, and a step of foaming and vulcanizing the tube by using a microwave irradiator having a microwave irradiation zone 4 m or less in length while being transported at given speed. The foamed rubber tube has an inner diameter 20 to 35% smaller than the outer diameter of the conductive core material over the whole region in the lengthwise direction, and the conductive core material is press-fitted into the foamed rubber tube without using any adhesive.

Abstract: The paper feed roller according to the present invention is made of a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing an ester thermoplastic elastomer urethane or an ether thermoplastic elastomer urethane (E) having microrubber hardness (type A) of not less than 60 and not more than 80 and a plasticizer (P) in a mass ratio E/P of 70/30 to 50/50.

Abstract: This invention provides an electrically conductive roller capable of forming an image without fogging even in a low humidity environment and an image-forming device. Specifically, the invention relates to an electrically conductive roller has an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of a shaft and a urethane coat layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the elastic layer, wherein the urethane coat layer includes a urethane resin, and at least one ionic liquid selected from the group consisting of pyridinium ionic liquids and amine ionic liquids, in an amount from 1 to 20 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of the urethane resin; and an image-forming device equipped with the electrically conductive roller.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to a support cylinder used in a thermal process chamber. In one embodiment, the support cylinder comprises a ring body having an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, wherein the ring body comprises an opaque quartz glass material and wherein the ring body is coated with an optical transparent layer. The optical transparent layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is substantially matched or similar to the opaque quartz glass material to reduce thermal expansion mismatch that may cause thermal stress under high thermal loads. In one example, the opaque quartz glass material is synthetic black quartz and the optical transparent layer comprises a clear fused quartz material.

Abstract: A sheet feed rolling element for an electrophotographic device includes a roller portion and shoulders on both sides formed by curved chamfers. A parting line between the fixed mold plate and the movable mold plate of an injection mold is located at the boundary between one shoulder and the roller portion outer periphery, a step is provided at the boundary due to a difference between the opening diameter of the cavity portion defined by the fixed mold plate and the opening diameter of the cavity portion defined by the movable mold plate so the one shoulder has a smaller diameter than the outer peripheral surface, and a chamfer is provided adjacent to the one shoulder to absorb any difference in molding shrinkage rate due to a difference in molecular orientation of resin at the step, thereby preventing circumferential bulging on the outer periphery of the formed roller portion.

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: The present invention provides a sheet conveying roller which requires a smaller number of ingredients than a prior art sheet conveying roller, has an excellent weather resistance, is less liable to suffer from reduction in friction coefficient attributable to accumulation of paper dust and sheet conveying failure attributable to the reduction in friction coefficient, and ensures proper sheet conveyance for a longer period of time. The invention further provides a rubber composition for the sheet conveying roller. The rubber composition comprises an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber and an epoxylated natural rubber as a rubber component. In the rubber composition, the epoxylated natural rubber is present in a proportion of 10 mass % to 90 mass % based on the overall amount of the rubber component including the two rubbers. The sheet conveying roller includes a roller body formed from the rubber composition.

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: In accordance with the invention, there are media feeding assemblies and methods of making a roll of a media feeding assembly. The method can include providing a soluble carbon nanotube composition, providing a first elastomeric rubber composition, and mixing the soluble carbon nanotube composition with the first elastomeric rubber composition to form a composite rubber composition, such that the soluble carbon nanotubes are substantially uniformly dispersed in the composite rubber composition. The method can also include applying the composite rubber composition to a mold and curing the composite rubber composition to form a composite rubber tire, such that the substantially uniformly dispersed soluble carbon nanotubes in the composite rubber tire provide at least about 10% decrease in wear.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrically conductive rubber composition which can be efficiently and sufficiently foamed and crosslinked by means of a continuous crosslinking apparatus including a microwave crosslinking device and a hot air crosslinking device without generation of ammonia and carbon monoxide. The electrically conductive rubber composition comprises a rubber component, a crosslinking component for crosslinking the rubber component, and a foaming component including sodium hydrogen carbonate and citric acid.

Abstract: A charging member includes a substrate and an outermost layer that is on the substrate, is in contact with a member to be charged, and contains a cross-linking fluorocarbon siloxane rubber composition, wherein the charging member charges the member to be charged by being brought into contact with the member to be charged while a voltage is applied.

Abstract: An aircraft conveyor system comprising an aircraft including an aircraft cargo storage bay; and a roller mounted within the aircraft cargo storage bay, the roller including a one-piece integral body having a cylindrical shape, the entirety of the body being made solely out of a single piece of polymeric material, said body having a length extending from a first outermost end to a second outermost end and a diameter and a first and second exterior shoulders at the ends, said body including an aperture extending longitudinally along and through the center of said body from the first outermost end to the second outermost end, the aperture sized to rotatably receive an axle therethrough, the axle being for mounting the roller within the aircraft cargo storage bay, wherein the roller has a burn rate of less than 4.0 inches per minute.

Abstract: To provide a charging member that can have a uniform electrical resistance, can not easily change in electrical resistance even by any long-term continuous electrification and, as a result thereof, may cause less change in its charging performance with time. A charging member having a conductive support and an elastic-material layer; the elastic-material layer comprising a vulcanized rubber; the vulcanized rubber being a vulcanized product of a composition which comprises i) a binder polymer comprising a polymer having a butadiene skeleton and ii) carbon black as electrically conductive particles; and the polymer having a butadiene skeleton has a molecular terminal modified with an atomic group having a specific structure.

Abstract: To provide a paper feed roller which hardly causes deterioration in the frictional coefficient due to paper powder accumulation and an accompanying paper conveyance failure, and can keep excellent paper feeding for a longer period. A paper feed roller 1 including a roller main body 2 made of a rubber composition which contains EPDM, IR, and BR or SBR as rubber components, where the mass ratio R1 of the three kinds of rubber components expressed by the following equation (1): R1=MEPDM/(MIR+Mx)??(1) (in the equation, MEPDM represents the parts by mass of EPDM, MIR represents the parts by mass of IR, and Mx represents the parts by mass of BR or SBR) is not less than 25/75 and not more than 75/25.

Abstract: A deflection roller for guiding a nonwoven web is described, which deflection roller comprises a guide jacket, which is mounted so as to be rotatable and on the circumferential surface of which the nonwoven web can be guided so as to be in contact therewith. In order to achieve a smooth-running and low-inertia guide jacket, the jacket material is formed by a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic. For preventing any interaction between the nonwoven web to be guided and the guide jacket, the circumferential surface is formed, as suggested by the invention, by a wear-resistant layer that is applied to the jacket material and that has an electrical conductivity.

Abstract: A roller made lighter through the use of lightening elements. The inventive roller, with its lightening element(s), is lighter yet maintains its overall dimensions, is strong and durable enough to withstand the rigors of the transportation industry and/or is cost effective to produce and maintain.

Abstract: A charging member is provided which has a surface layer that can more surely keep bleeding from occurring. It is a charging member having a substrate, an elastic layer and a surface layer; the surface layer containing a high-molecular compound having a constituent unit represented by the following formula (1) and a constituent unit represented by the following formula (2), and having an Si—O—Zr linkage.

Abstract: Rollers for high speed printers and paper handling devices are fabricated by reacting polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate with a polyester polyol and/or polyester polyamine and an optional extender, together with a metal salt, a catalyst, and one or more other optional additives, including a liquid conductive additive. The resulting rollers provide a hardness as low as 15 A on cube, a resistivity as low as 5E4 ?·cm, a compression set as low as 0.5% at room temperature and as low as 3% at 157° F., and low tackiness as low as 13 g/cm of adhesion force.

Abstract: An inventive electrically conductive rubber composition comprises a rubber component at least including an SBR, an EPDM and an epichlorohydrin rubber, a crosslinking agent component for crosslinking the rubber component, and a foaming agent component. The foaming agent component comprises a foaming agent alone in a proportion of not less than 0.1 part by mass and not greater than 8 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. Alternatively, the foaming agent component comprises the aforementioned proportion of the foaming agent and not greater than 5 parts by mass of a urea foaming assisting agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. An inventive transfer roller (1) includes a tubular roller body (2) formed from the electrically conductive rubber composition.

Abstract: An aircraft conveyor system comprising an aircraft including an aircraft cargo storage bay; and a roller mounted within the aircraft cargo storage bay, the roller including a one-piece integral body having a cylindrical shape, the entirety of the body being made solely out of a single piece of polymeric material, said body having a length extending from a first outermost end to a second outermost end and a diameter and a first and second exterior shoulders at the ends, said body including an aperture extending longitudinally along and through the center of said body from the first outermost end to the second outermost end, the aperture sized to rotatably receive an axle therethrough, the axle being for mounting the roller within the aircraft cargo storage bay, wherein the roller has a burn rate of less than 4.0 inches per minute.

Abstract: A charging member that achieves a high level of compatibility between the suppression of the bleeding of a low-molecular weight component from its elastic layer to its surface and charging performance for an electrophotographic photosensitive member. The charging member has a substrate, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymer having a Si-O-Ti bond, and the polymer has a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (1) and a constitutional unit represented by the following general formula (2).

Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet conveying roller which requires a smaller number of ingredients than a prior art sheet conveying roller, has an excellent weather resistance, is less liable to suffer from reduction in friction coefficient attributable to accumulation of paper dust and sheet conveying failure attributable to the reduction in friction coefficient, and ensures proper sheet conveyance for a longer period of time. The invention further provides a rubber composition for the sheet conveying roller. The rubber composition comprises an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber and an epoxylated natural rubber as a rubber component. In the rubber composition, the epoxylated natural rubber is present in a proportion of 10 mass % to 90 mass % based on the overall amount of the rubber component including the two rubbers. The sheet conveying roller includes a roller body formed from the rubber composition.

Abstract: A roller made lighter through the use of lightening elements. The inventive roller, with its lightening element(s), is lighter yet maintains its overall dimensions, is strong and durable enough to withstand the rigors of the transportation industry and/or is cost effective to produce and maintain.

Abstract: Developer roll having a conductive or semi-conductive soft rubber core and a coating deposited in the soft rubber core wherein the coating has a conductive agent. The outer surface of the soft rubber core is modified before the coating is deposited onto the outer surface of the soft rubber core. Methods for making the same.

Abstract: There is provided a conductive elastic roller (1) comprising a shaft member (2) and one or more elastic layers (3) disposed on an outside of the shaft member (2) in a radial direction, wherein at least one of the elastic layers (3) is composed of an ultraviolet-curing type resin formed by curing a raw material for the elastic layer comprising a urethane acrylate oligomer (A), a photo-polymerization initiator (B) and a conductive agent (C) through ultraviolet irradiation, and the urethane acrylate oligomer (A) is a urethane acrylate oligomer synthesized by using as a polyol a polyether polyol (a1) having a proportion of primary hydroxyl groups in hydroxyl groups located at molecular ends of not less than 40% obtained by an addition polymerization of propylene oxide to a polyhydric alcohol alone, or the polyether polyol (a1) and another polyol (a2), and provides a conductive elastic roller (1) provided with an elastic layer having a low hardness, a small compression residual strain and an improved stain resista

Abstract: A disk roll base material includes 25 to 50 wt % of ceramic wool, 5 to 30 wt % of kibushi clay, 2 to 20 wt % of bentonite, and 25 to 45 wt % of a filler selected from alumina, wollastonite and calcined kaolin clay.

Abstract: A soft pressure roller for use in a printer fusing system having an inside diameter and an outside diameter, wherein the roller is fabricated of LIM silicone elastomer having a softness of between 15 and 35 Asker C and wherein the distance between the inside diameter and the outside diameter is between 2 mm and 10 mm.

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: A roller includes a shaft including reinforcing fiber and a binder resin; and an elastic body surrounding an outer surface of the shaft, wherein an average length to average diameter ratio (L/D) of the reinforcing fiber is from about 15,000:1 to about 50,000:1.

Abstract: A charging roll includes a shaft and an ionically conductive elastic layer formed around the shaft. The ionically conductive elastic layer is formed of a rubber composition free of any electron-conductive agent and containing 0.7 to 1.0 parts by weight of a peroxide cross-linking agent per 100 parts by weight of an ion-conductive rubber. The ion-conductive rubber is formed of at least one of an epichlorohydrin rubber and a nitrile rubber, and a percentage of a rubber component in the ionically conductive elastic layer measured by thermogravimetric analysis is 90% or more by weight.

Abstract: A conductive roller has a core and a conductive foam formed on a peripheral surface thereof. The conductive foam constitutes a three-phase rubber composition containing 35 to 50 parts by mass of epichlorohydrin rubber, 25 to 35 parts by mass of ethylene-propylene-diene copolymer rubber, and 25 to 30 parts by mass of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber as a rubber component thereof. The conductive foam does not have a coating layer formed on a surface thereof. The conductive roller has an Asker C hardness, an electric resistance value, an average surface-cell diameter, and a number of surface cells set to 30 to 36°, 106 to 107?, 100 to 200 ?m, and 50 to 120/1.5 mm square respectively.

Abstract: A roll for use in a galvanizing pot, comprising a hollow body brought into contact with a steel strip, and shaft portions connected to the body, at least the body being made of a silicon nitride ceramic having thermal conductivity of 50 W/(m·K) or more at room temperature, and the body having an average surface roughness Ra of 1-20 ?m. The body is preferably shrink-fit to the shaft portions.

Abstract: A roller device for a toner cartridge includes a spindle and a roller body. The roller body has a foam layer disposed around the spindle, and an outer tube disposed around the foam layer. Both of the outer tube and the foam layer are made of a thermoplastic material. The roller body has a bulk resistance ranging from 102 ohms to 1010 ohms.

Abstract: The rubber composition according to the present invention is a rubber composition for forming the body of a paper feed roller, containing a rubber component, a crosslinking agent and a filler, wherein the rubber component is at least a single type selected from a group consisting of: (1) non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50; (2) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50 and oil of not more than 10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber; (3) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.) of 15 to 50 and liquid ethylene propylene diene rubber; and (4) a mixture of non-oil-extended ethylene propylene diene rubber having Mooney viscosity (at 100° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a base material for disks of disk rolls, in which the disk roll contains a rotating shaft and a plurality of the disks fitted on the rotating shaft by insertion whereby the outer peripheral surface of the disks serves as a conveying surface, in which the process contains molding a slurry raw material containing inorganic fibers, an inorganic filler having an aspect ratio of from 1 to 25 and an inorganic binder into a plate shape; and drying the molded plate.

Abstract: A developer carrying member is disclosed which can stably provide toners with triboelectric charges even in various environments. The developer carrying member has a substrate and a resin layer as a surface layer formed on the surface of the substrate, and the resin layer contains a thermosetting resin as a binder resin, an acrylic resin having two units having specific structures, and conductive particles.

Abstract: An electrically conductive roller, belt or mat having an elastomer composition comprised of a carbon nanotube rubber composite material. Specifically the invention relates to an electrically conductive roller, belt or mat having an elastomeric material composition comprised of a carbon nanotube silicone rubber composite material utilizing a liquid silicone rubber with very small loadings of carbon nanotubes.

Abstract: Rollers for high speed printers and paper handling devices are fabricated by reacting polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate with a polyester polyol and/or polyester polyamine and an optional extender, together with a metal salt, a catalyst, and one or more other optional additives, including a liquid conductive additive. The resulting rollers provide a hardness as low as 15A on cube, a resistivity as low as 5E4 ?·cm, a compression set as low as 0.5% at room temperature and as low as 3% at 157° F., and low tackiness as low as 13 g/cm of adhesion force.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image forming device component that includes an elastomeric material having a surface and a triboelectric charging material that may be exposed on the elastomeric material surface. The triboelectric material may be exposed by a finishing process that results in removal of a portion of the material leaving voids in the surface. The surface may have a surface roughness in the range of about 0.1 to 5.0 Ra. The component may include a developer roller in an electrophotograhic printer and may provide contact electrification to a given toner during a printing operation.

Abstract: A process for producing a conductive rubber roller having a conductive core material and a rubber layer provided thereon. The rubber layer contains at least acrylonitrile rubber, epichlorohydrin rubber and a blowing agent, and has a gas generation rate of from 2 ml/g·min to 4 ml/g·min at 170° C. to 230° C. The process has a vulcanizing and foaming step of vulcanizing and foaming the rubber layer by using a microwave vulcanizing furnace which provides hot air and irradiation with microwaves. A temperature of a heating atmosphere in the microwave vulcanizing furnace in the vulcanizing and foaming step is so controlled that a ratio of initial vulcanizing time T10 to initial foaming time Tp10, T10/Tp10, of the rubber layer is from 1 or more to less than 3 and the T10 is within 90 seconds.