Sliding member with spaced grooves, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsHideaki Ohara, Kenji Omori, Ryohei Yoshikawa, Taiki Nagamatsu
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Abstract
A sliding member includes a central portion of a sliding surface in a width direction provided with plural first grooves at intervals along a width direction of the first grooves, in which an angle formed by a first groove and a sliding direction is 45° or more and 90° or less, and in a case where a cut surface obtained by cutting the sliding member along a direction perpendicular to the first groove and along a thickness direction is observed, an angle A formed by a wall surface of the first groove on a downstream side in the sliding direction and the sliding direction in the first groove is 21° or more and 45° or less.
Claims20
A sliding member comprising:
- a central portion of a sliding surface in a width direction provided with a plurality of first grooves at intervals along a width direction of the first grooves,
- wherein an angle formed by a first groove and a sliding direction is 45° or more and 90° or less, and
- in a case where a cut surface obtained by cutting the sliding member along a direction perpendicular to the first groove and along a thickness direction is observed, an angle A formed by a wall surface of the first groove on a downstream side in the sliding direction and the sliding direction in the first groove is 21° or more and 45° or less,
- wherein a length of the first groove in the width direction of the sliding surface is longer than a width of the first groove in the sliding direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.