Intermediate transfer member and electrophotographic apparatus including same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHIROYUKI KOBAYASHI, AKIHIKO NAKAZAWA, ATSUSHI TANAKA, TSUNENORI ASHIBE, TAKASHI KUSABA
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Abstract
An intermediate transfer member suitable for full-color image formation by electrophotography is formed by an elastic base layer and a fibrous core member embedded with the base layer. The core member is formed of fibers which are disposed within the base layer at a spacing between adjacent fibers of 50-3000μm. As a result, the intermediate transfer member is reinforced to exhibit improved superposed transfer performance free from color deviation while retaining good transfer performance.
Claims16
An intermediate transfer member comprising a base layer, and a core member embedded within the base layer and comprising fiber disposed with a spacing of 50-300 μm between adjacent fibers.
An electrophotographic apparatus, comprising:
- an electrophotographic photosensitive member,
- charging means for charging the electrophotographic photosensitive member,
- imagewise exposure means for exposing imagewise the charged electrophotographic photosensitive member to form an electrostatic image,
- developing means for developing the electrostatic to form a toner image on the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and
- an intermediate transfer member for temporarily receiving the toner image by transfer from the electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the intermediate transfer member comprising a base layer, and a core member embedded within the base layer and comprising fiber disposed with a spacing of 50-300 μm between adjacent fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.