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US 6,571,939 B2Granted
Imageable seamed belts having hot melt processable, thermosetting resin and conductive carbon filler adhesive between interlocking seaming members
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsIhor W. Tarnawskyj, Joseph A. Swift, Christopher P Manos, Theodore Lovallo
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Abstract
A seamed flexible belt having a substrate, a seam having interlocking seam members, and an optional overcoat, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and carbon filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like machines.
Claims1
An image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium comprising:
- a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon;
- a development component to apply toner to the charge-retentive surface to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on said charge retentive surface;
- a transfer belt to transfer the developed image from the charge retentive surface to a copy substrate, wherein the transfer belt is an endless seamed flexible belt comprising a first end and a second end, each of the first end and the second end comprising a plurality of mutually mating elements which join in an interlocking relationship to form a seam, the transfer belt comprising a substrate and the seam comprising an adhesive comprising a resistive, hot-melt processible, thermosetting resin and a fluorinated carbon filler, and a fixing component to fuse the developed image to the copy substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.