Fuser member with an amino silane adhesive layer

The method of fusing thermoplastic resin toner images to a substrate comprising forming a film of a polymeric release agent having functional groups on the surface of a heated fuser member, said fuser member comprising an aluminum base member and an elastomer fusing surface comprising poly(vinylidenefluoride-hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) where the vinylidene fluoride is present in an amount less than 40 mole percent, said elastomer having been cured from a solvent solution thereof with a nucleophilic curing agent soluble in said solution and in the presence of up to 9 parts by weight of inorganic base per 100 parts of polymer, said inorganic base being effective to at least partially dehydrofluorinate the vinylidenefluoride;

• and an adhesive layer between the surface of said aluminum base member and said elastomer fusing surface, said adhesive layer having been cured from a solvent solution of a poly(vinylidenefluoride-hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) where the vinylidenefluoride is present in an amount less than 40 mole percent and from about 6 to 20 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of said poly(vinylidenefluoride hexafluoropropylene-tetrafluoroethylene) of an amino silane represented by the formula:
• ##STR5## where R can be an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms;
• R' can be an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms or a polyalkoxyalkyl group of less than 7 carbon atoms;
• Y is an amino group or an amino substituted alkyl, or a polyamino substituted alkyl, or an alkenylalkoxy amino, or an aryl amino group of less than 15 carbon atoms, h is 1 to 3, b is 0 to 2, q is 1 or 2 and h+b=3, contacting the toner images on said substrate with the heated elastomer surface for a period of time sufficient to soften the toner, and allowing the toner to cool.