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US 7,115,084 B2Granted
Replaceable fuser member
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJiann-Chen Chen, Biao Tan, Joseph A. Pavlisko, Muhammed Aslam, Allen Kass, Nataly Boulatnikov
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Abstract
A replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve, a primer coat of a silane coupling agent containing epoxies on the sleeve, and an outside coating applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser station of the electrophotographic copying machine.
Claims18
A replaceable fuser roller member, the member comprising:
- a) a high temperature nickel sleeve snugly positioned around a mandrel in an electrophotographic machine fuser section, the sleeve having an inner diameter adapted to closely fit around an outer diameter of the mandrel;
- b) a base cushion elastomer layer around an outside of the sleeve;
- c) a primer consisting essentially of a silane coupling agent containing epoxies positioned on the outside of the sleeve to provide bonding between the base cushion and the sleeve;
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- d) a layer of a cured thermoplastic polymer selected from the group consisting of thermoplastic polyfluorocarbon polymers and thermoplastic polyfluorocarbon random copolymers around the outside of the base cushion.
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