Apparatus having endless belt with roughened guide
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsToshiyuki Kabata, Michio Kimura, Hideo Nakamori, Shinji Nousyo, Akihiro Sugino
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Abstract
An endless belt including an endless body having opposite side edges and an interior surface, and a pair of spaced apart parallel guides bonded to the interior surface of the endless body at positions adjacent to the side edges thereof and extending longitudinally along the side edges, wherein each of the guides is made of an elastic material and has inside and/or outside surfaces having specific roughness.
Claims6
1-47. (Canceled).
An endless belt comprising an endless body having opposite side edges and an interior surface, and a pair of spaced apart parallel guides fixedly secured to the interior surface of said endless body at positions adjacent to said side edges thereof and extending longitudinally along said side edges, wherein each of said guides is made of an elastic material and has an outside surface having Rz′ of 2-20 μm, wherein Rz′ is an average surface roughness at ten points of a sectional curve obtained by measuring a profile of the outside surface of said guide in the longitudinal direction of said guide,
- wherein each of said guides has a thickness of 5-100 μm, and
- wherein each of said guides has a rubber hardness of 60-90.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.