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US 6,647,237 B2Granted
Three layer seamless transfer component
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsEdward L. Schlueter, Jr., Gerald M. Fletcher, Nancy Y. Jia, John S. Berkes
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Abstract
A three-layer transfer member having a rigid substrate, a conformable intermediate layer and an outer thin fluoropolymer layer wherein the fluoropolymer layer can be tetrafluoroethylene, perfluoroalkoxy, fluorine ethylene propene monomers, polymers thereof, and mixtures thereof, and an image apparatus including the same.
Claims20
A transfer member comprising:
- a) a substrate,
- b) a conformable intermediate layer positioned on the substrate, wherein said intermediate layer has a hardness of from about 5 to about 60 Shore A, and
- c) a thin fluoropolymer layer positioned on said conformable intermediate layer, wherein said fluoropolymer is selected from the group consisting of fluorine ethylene propylene monomers (FEP), polytetrafluoroethylene, and perfluoroalkoxy polytetrafluoroethylene.
A transfer member comprising:
- a) a substrate,
- b) a conformable intermediate layer positioned on the substrate, wherein said intermediate layer has a hardness of from about 5 to about 60 Shore A,
- c) a thin fluoropolymer layer positioned on said conformable intermediate layer, wherein said fluoropolymer is selected from the group consisting of fluorine ethylene propylene monomers (FEP), polytetrafluoroethylene, and perfluoroalkoxy polytetrafluoroethylene, and
- d) a heating member associated with said substrate.
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An image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium comprising:
- a) a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon;
- b) a development component to apply a developer material to the charge-retentive surface to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on the charge-retentive surface;
- c) a first transfer member for transferring the developed image from the charge-retentive surface to a second transfer member or copy substrate, said first transfer member comprising, i) a substrate, ii) a conformable intermediate layer positioned on the substrate, wherein said intermediate layer has a hardness of from about 5 to about 60 Shore A, and iii) a thin fluoropolymer layer positioned on said conformable intermediate layer, wherein said fluoropolymer is selected from the group consisting of fluorine ethylene propylene monomers (FEP), polytetrafluoroethylene, and perfluoroalkoxy polytetrafluoroethylene.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.