Xerox Corporation

Med Graph, Inc.

Edward L Schlueter, Jr

James F Smith

Constance J Thornton

Lucille M Sharf

Robert M Ferguson

Joseph C Mammino

Gerald M Fletcher

Joseph A Swift

Santokh Singh Badesha

Theodore Lovallo

T Edwin Freeman

Laurence J Lynd

Donald S Sypula

Xiaoying Elizabeth Yuan

Thomas C Parker

Robert C U Yu

Kock-Yee Law

Nancy Y Jia

Robert N Finsterwalder

Xiaoying (Elizabeth) Yuan

William A Hammond

Richard L Carlston

Henry L Manuel

Arnold W Henry

Nero R Lindblad

John S Berkes

Edward F Bowler, Jr

Paul J Brach

David Battat

George J Heeks

Dennis A Abramsohn

Frank J Bonsignore

Shu Chang

Christine J Tarnawskyj

Allen W Denham

J Robert Blaszak

Shy-Shung Hwang

Donald J Robertson

William E Bond

Donald W Owens

Eric J Smith

Alex Skirko

David Watro

Paul A DeSarra

William W Limburg

Ihor W Tarnawskyj

Robert Arnold Gross

Henry R Till

Merlin E Scharfe

Alan J Werner, Jr

Kenneth W Pietrowski

Raymond K Crandall

Donald S Stanton

Edward B Caruthers, Jr

Dexter A Dyer

Herbert C Relyea

Jerome P Chasko

Eugene J Fina

Shawn R Rowan

Francois Soos

Kathryn A Domagall

Crystal A Martin

Thomas E Brothers

Francis C McDowell

Richard E Carlston

Edward Scales

Kevin J Teed

A seamed, conformable belt including a substrate having first and second opposing substantially planar surfaces, a first end, and a second end, wherein the first end and the second end of the substrate form a first seam, and an elastomeric layer having a first end and a second end, wherein the elastomeric layer is adjacent and in contact with the first surface of the substrate and wherein the first end and the second end of the elastomeric layer form a second detachable, substantially planar seam.

Seamed, conformable belt and method of making

A xerographic component having a substrate and thereover a coating with a thiophene-based material is set forth.

Polythiophene xerographic component coatings

An image-bearing article used in liquid contact electrostatic printing (CEP) is formed from polymers that meet the requisite conformance and heat stability for the CEP process. Excessive absorption of toner carrier liquids by the image-bearing article in liquid CEP leads to the deterioration of the image-bearing article and reduces the useful life of the image-bearing article. The absorption of the toner carrier fluid may be controlled by the addition of oxides, silicone elastomers containing phenyl end groups, fluorosilicones or increasing the cross-linking density of the methyl silicones.

Image-bearing article containing cross-linked elastomers for electrostatic printing

Seamed belts, particularly puzzle-cut imageable seam intermediate transfer belts, and marking machines that use such belts, that have a beveled sides across the thickness of the belt. When the first and second ends are interlocked the bevel points are adjacent one another and a substantially V-shaped channel is formed. An adhesive is disposed in that channel. The V-shaped channel beneficially continuously extends along the puzzle-cut seam.

Seamed belt having beveled end sections

Imageable seamed intermediate transfer belts having a large seam surface area, and marking machines that use such imageable seamed intermediate transfer belts. The seamed intermediate transfer belt having an inner surface and an outer surface having predefine surface properties for the purpose of imaging. A belt is formed from a semiconductive substrate having a first end and a second end that are mated to form a seam. An adhesive is disposed over the joint whereupon joint can be burnished or overcoated with a material that substantially imitate predefined surface properties of the belt.

Method of making belts having burnished seams

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.

Three layer seamless transfer component

A transfix member with a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating having a haloelastomer consisting essentially of monomers selected from the group consisting of halogenated monomers, polyorganosiloxane monomers, and mixtures thereof, and a heating member associated with substrate.

Transfix component having haloelastomer outer layer

A system for manufacturing large quantities of seamed belts for printing systems with controlled imageable seams, which belts require a defined circumference and width, from suitable belt material in a large roll thereof, by feeding a continuous web of that belt material from the roll in (or cut to) a width that is at least as wide as the defined circumference of the finished seamed belt into a seam cutting station, where the opposing side edges of the continuous web of belt material are cut as they move through the seam cutting station into opposing seam-forming mating edge patterns, preferably mating puzzle-cut patterns cut by small movement laser beams on each side of the moving web. The moving web is then wrapped over a mandrel surface so that the opposing side edges of the web are brought together while said continuous web of belt material is moving, mating the opposing edge patterns together to form a belt seam in a moving tube of the web material, the belt seam is adhesively sealed, and then increments of this moving tube are intermittently transversely cut off to the selected width of the finished seamed belt.

Continuous process for manufacturing imageable seamed belts for printers

A transfix member with a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer layer having a fluoroelastomer and polyamino polysiloxane, and a heating member associated with the transfix member.

Transfix component having haloelastomer and silicone hybrid material

A seamed flexible belt having a substrate and a seam having interlocking seam members, wherein the interlocking seam members are held together by an adhesive having polyamide and a doped metal oxide filler, for use in electrostatographic, contact electrostatic, digital and other like printing machines.

Imageable seamed belts having polyamide and doped metal oxide adhesive between interlocking seaming members

A printing apparatus includes a transfuse member, an intermediate transfer member and a transfer member that electrostatically transfers a toner image from the intermediate transfer member to the transfuse member. The transfer member includes at least one temperature control device that maintains the transfer member within a predefined range. A controller assembly may be connected to the at least one temperature control device for extending the electrical life of the transfer member by maintaining the transfer member at a substantially constant resistivity.

Printing machine and method using a bias transfer roller including at least one temperature-maintaining device

An electrostatographic component having a substrate and an outer coating of a thin, conformable perfluoroelastomer, wherein the outer coating has a thickness of from about 1 to about 75 micrometers, and wherein the unit manufacturing cost of developing the component is decreased and adhesion of the layer is increased.

Thin perfluoropolymer component coatings

A xerographic component including an intermediate transfer, fusing and/or biasing component, wherein one or more of each component may have a substrate and thereover a polymer coating with a thiophene filler dispersed or contained therein, and also an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium having a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon; a biasable component capable of receiving an electrical bias for charging one of a xerographic component or copy substrate surface; a development component to apply toner to the charge-retentive surface to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on the charge retentive surface; a transfer component to transfer the developed image from the charge retentive surface to a copy substrate; and a fuser component for fusing the developed image to a surface of the copy substrate, wherein at least one of the biasable component, transfer component and the fuser component have a) a substrate; and thereon b) a coating having a thiophene filler dispersed therein and an image forming apparatus including such xerographic component including an intermediate transfer, fusing and/or biasing component, and including a charge retentive surface, a biasable component, a development component, a transfer component, and a fuser component.

Polythiophene filled xerographic component coatings

Method of making imageable seamed intermediate transfer belts having burnished seams

A transfer member having a polyimide substrate with polyaniline and two different carbon black electrically conductive fillers dispersed therein for use in electrostatographic apparatuses.

Polyanaline and carbon black filled polyimide intermediate transfer components

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Edward L Schlueter, Jr