Fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsRyohei Yoshikawa, Tomotake Inagaki
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Abstract
A fixing belt includes, in the following order: a base material layer containing a resin; an elastic layer containing an elastic material; and a release layer, in which each of the base material layer and the elastic layer further contains an aggregate in which plural fibrous carbons are entangled with each other, a maximum diameter of the aggregate in the base material layer is 50% or less of a film thickness of the base material layer, and a maximum diameter of the aggregate in the elastic layer is 15% or less of a film thickness of the elastic layer.
Claims20
A fixing belt comprising, in the following order:
- a base material layer containing a resin;
- an elastic layer containing an elastic material;
- and
- a release layer,
- wherein each of the base material layer and the elastic layer further contains an aggregate in which a plurality of fibrous carbons are entangled with each other, a maximum diameter of the aggregate in the base material layer is 50% or less of a film thickness of the base material layer, and
- a maximum diameter of the aggregate in the elastic layer is 15% or less of a film thickness of the elastic layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.