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US 10,216,125 B2Granted
Solid lubricant, solid lubricant application apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsKunihiro Ogura, Yukio Hosoya, Taiki Amemiya
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Abstract
A solid lubricant to be applied onto an image carrier of an image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic system, includes a metal soap and resin particles, and the resin particles have a particle main body constituted by a rigid resin other than fluorine-based resins, and fluorine atoms carried on the surface of the particle main body.
Claims6
A solid lubricant to be applied onto an image carrier of an image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic system,
- wherein the solid lubricant comprises a metal soap and resin particles,
- the resin particles have a particle main body constituted by a rigid resin other than fluorine-based resins, and fluorine atoms carried on the surface of the particle main body, and
- the abundance ratio of the fluorine on the resin particles is 5 to 60 atom %.
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