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AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKatsunori Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Mizumo
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A correcting apparatus of a seamless belt includes a bottomed cylindrical main body that has an inner peripheral surface formed of mirror surface and that accommodates a seamless belt at a distance from the inner peripheral surface, a lid body detachably attached to the main body, a fixing unit that fixes an upper end and a lower end of the seamless belt to the mirror surface, a pressing unit that presses the seamless belt accommodated in the main body against the mirror surface, and a heating unit that heats the mirror surface.
A correcting method of a seamless belt comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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By mechanical means, e.g. pressing: of profiled articles, e.g. hollow or tubular articles, beams
Component parts, details or accessories; Auxiliary operations: venting means
Using liquids, gas or steam: using liquids
Moulds: with incorporated heating or cooling means
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This application is based on application No. 2009-138144 filed in Japan on Jun. 9, 2009, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a correcting apparatus and a correcting method of a seamless belt for correcting lines or irregularities generated on a surface of the seamless belt when the seamless belt is produced from a PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) resin by an extrusion.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a correcting apparatus of a seamless belt according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a partial enlarged sectional view of the correcting apparatus of the seamless belt shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an O-ring shown in FIG. 2;
An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a correcting apparatus 12 of a seamless belt 11 according to the embodiment of the present invention. The correcting apparatus 12 includes a main body 21 that accommodates the seamless belt 11 therein, a lid body 41 that can be detached from the main body 21, a support member 51 that detachably supports the lid body 41 on the main body 21, and a heating device 71 that is a heating unit for heating an inner peripheral surface of the main body 21.
The seamless belt 11 is a tube-like belt having a thickness of 50 μm to 300 μm, and is used as a transfer belt.