Eastman-kodak Company

Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Other

Biao Tan

Jiann-Hsing Chen

Joseph A Pavlisko

Tonya D Binga

Craig M Cody

Muhammed Aslam

Arun Chowdry

Charles Eugene Hewitt

Diane Marie Herrick

Thomas Nathaniel Tombs

Jiann H Chen

John W May

Dennis J Grabb

Michel Frantz Molaire

Robert Arthur Lancaster

Edward T Miskinis

Douglas B Wilkins

Steven Cormier

Borden H Mills

Po-Jen Shih

Allen Kass

Jiann-Chen Chen

Donald Saul Rimai

Wayne Thomas Ferrar

Rodney Ray Bucks

William J Staudenmayer

Jerry Alan Pickering

Alan Richard Priebe

Stephen V Davis

Nataly Boulatnikov

Andrew Ciaschi

Scott E Tunney

Ralph E Williams

Paul L Nielsen

M Cristina B Dejesus

James E Mathers

Steven O Cormier

Bonnie J Patterson

Garold F Fritz

Kenneth D Stack

Earl Gregory Gomes

Dean R Smith

Kenneth E Stack

Robert Charlebois

A method for producing a replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve and an outside topcoat applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a machine mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser section of the electrophotographic copying machine. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of the sleeve to support the sleeve during positioning of a cured base cushion layer around the sleeve and a cured topcoat layer over the cured base material.

Method for producing a replaceable fuser member

The present invention is a method of forming a toner image on a receiving sheet. The method includes forming an electrostatic image on a primary image member and toning the image with a dry toner to form a toner image. The toner includes toner particles having a diameter of between 4 and 10 microns and transfer assisting particles appended to the toner particles surface. The transfer assisting particles have a diameter of between 20 and 100 nm. The toner image is transferred from the primary image member to an intermediate image member having an overcoat layer, the overcoat layer having a Young's modulus of from 250 to 500 MPa. The toner image is transferred from the intermediate image member to a receiving sheet wherein the intermediate image member drives the primary image member or the receiving sheet.

Electrostatographic method using compliant intermediate transfer member

This invention relates to a polymer sleeve including a polymer sidewall and a ceramer outer coating and a method for producing the polymer sleeve for use with a blanket cylinder in an electrophotographic process.

Overcoat for a polymer sleeve member for a blanket cylinder and a method for making the overcoat

This invention relates to a method for producing a polymer sleeve including a polymer sleeve for use with an image cylinder or a blanket cylinder in an electrophotographic process so that the sleeve has a stretched length as mounted on the mandrel equal to a length of the mandrel.

Method for producing a sleeved polymer member, an image cylinder or a blanket cylinder

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.

Replaceable fuser member

Laminator member with fluorocarbon silane coupling reagent

A photoconductive sleeved primary image-forming member roller for use in an electrophotographic machine comprising a central member including a rigid cylindrical core member and a compliant layer formed on the core member; and a flexible, replaceable, removable, photoconductive sleeve member in the form of an endless tubular belt that surrounds and nonadhesively intimately contacts the central member.

Sleeved Photoconductive member and method of making

A conformable roller for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, the fusing station being provided with a pressure roller and a fuser roller for fusing a toner image on a receiver, the fuser roller made from a plurality of layers surrounding an axis of rotation, the conformable roller comprising a rigid cylindrically symmetric core member; a flexible replaceable removable compliant sleeve member in the form of a tubular belt surrounding and nonadhesively intimately contacting the core member; and the fusing station including an external heat source for the fuser roller, at least one of the plurality of layers being thermally resistive.

Sleeved rollers for use in a fusing station employing an externally heated fuser roller

A photoconductive sleeved primary image-forming member roller for use in an electrophotographic machine comprising a central member including a rigid cylindrical core member and a compliant layer formed on the core member; and a flexible replaceable removable photoconductive sleeve member in the form of an endless tubular belt that surrounds and non-adhesively intimately contacts the central member.

Sleeved photoconductive member and method of making

A fusing belt comprising a substrate and a coating on the substrate wherein the coating comprises a resin containing a cured silsesquioxane polymer and wherein the belt is used in combination with a photographic element.

Fusing belt for applying a protective overcoat to a photographic element

Roller assembly containing externally heated roller with cured fluorocarbon random copolymer overcoat and fuser apparatus containing same

Adhesion priming composition for fluoropolymer coatings

An intermediate transfer member (IT) roller for use in an electrostatographic recording apparatus comprising a core member; a compliant layer covering the core member; and a stiffening layer covering the compliant layer, wherein the stiffening layer includes an endless belt that has a thickness in the range of greater than 50 and up to 1000 micrometers.

Intermediate transfer member having a stiffening layer and method of using

In accordance with the invention, there is provided a reproduction method including forming a toner image on a moving primary image-forming member (PIFM) which is a first double-sleeved roller including a rigid cylindrical core member, a replaceable removable compliant inner sleeve member (ISM) in nonadhesive intimate contact with and surrounding the core member, and a replaceable removable photoconductive outer sleeve member (OSM) in nonadhesive intimate contact with and surrounding the ISM; electrostatically transferring the toner image, from the PIFM to a counter-rotating intermediate transfer member (ITM) which is a second double-sleeved roller, in a first transfer nip width produced by a pressure contact between the PIFM and the ITM, an electric field urging the toner image from the PIFM to the ITM, wherein the ITM includes a rigid cylindrical core member, a compliant ISM in nonadhesive intimate contact with and surrounding the core member, and a compliant resistive OSM in nonadhesive intimate contact with and surrounding the ISM.

Double-sleeved electrostatographic roller and method of using

A fuser member comprising a support and coated thereon a fluorocarbon elastomer layer containing: (1) a silicon carbide filler and a cupric oxide filler; and/or (2) a silicon carbide filler treated with a silane coupling agent having a reactive functional group, the fuser member further having a functionalized polydimethylsiloxane release agent applied to the fluorocarbon elastomer layer in an amount sufficient to produce, upon incubation at elevated temperature, a surface having improved toner release properties on said outermost layer.

Fluorocarbon fuser member with silicon carbide filler

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