Bridgestone Corporation

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Hideyuki Niwa

Kazuo Naito

Masato Yoshikawa

Itsuo Tanuma

Yukio Fukuura

Takahiro Kawagoe

Yasuhiro Morimura

Kyoei Yoshida

Koji Takagi

Yoshitomo Masuda

Yukihiro Kusano

Yoshio Takizawa

Masuhiro Kogoma

Satiko Okazaki

Gaku Yakushiji

Norihiko Kaga

Hiroshi Kaneda

Hideo Sugiyama

Takashi Kitamura

Yuko Maeda

Taro Miyamoto

Masashi Segawa

Chikara Yamada

Kiyomi Sasaki

Hiromi Ohtsuru

Kazuo Naitoh

Hiroshi Harashima

Takahiko Koga

Disclosed is an intermediate transfer member disposed between an image forming body and a recording medium, for transferring and holding a toner image formed on a surface of the image forming body onto a surface of the intermediate transfer member once and then transferring the toner image onto the recording medium, the intermediate transfer member including: a rubber composition, wherein the state of occurrence of cracks in the rubber composition after the rubber composition imparted with 20% of elongation has been exposed for 120 hours to an environment with an ozone concentration of 10 ppm and with a temperature of 40.degree. C. is specified such that no crack is seen, or the number of cracks and the depth of cracks satisfy a specific evaluation standard.

Intermediate transfer member and intermediate transfer device

A laminated glass is composed of glass plates, between which a thermosetting resin composed of a copolymer of ethylene-vinyl acetate, a hydrocarbon resin and an organic peroxide is inserted and cured to intergrate them. An organic resin film is inserted between layers of the thermosetting resin. The thermosetting resin contains dibenzylidene sorbitol and/or tribenzylidene sorbitol. The thermosetting resin contains one or more kinds of silane coupling agent selected from the group consisting of acryloxy group containing compound, methacryloxy group containing compound and aryl group containing compound, and an absorber for ultra violet ray are contained. Preparation of the thermosetting resin is carried out by previously mixing a part of the copolymer of ethylene-vinyl acetate with the hydrocarbon resin to obtain a mixture, mixing residual amount of the copolymer of ethylene-vinyl acetate into the mixture, and adding the organic peroxide to mix.

Laminated glass and preparation thereof

A sandwich glass is disclosed containing a thermoset resin layer interposed between glass plates, wherein the thermoset resin layer, prior to thermosetting, contains an uncured resin composition containing: (a) an organic peroxide, (b) an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, and (c) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of at least one acryloxy or methacryloxy group-containing compound and a hydrocarbon resin having a ratio of hydrogenation .gtoreq.91%; wherein the at least one acryloxy or methacryloxy group-containing compound is selected from the group consisting of 1-methyl-1,3-dimethacryloxypropane, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-diacryloxypropane, 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dimethacryloxypropane, 2-hydroxy-1-acryloxy-3-methacryloxypropane, 2-hydroxy-1,3-dimethacryloxypropane, 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,3-diacryloxypropane and 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,3-dimethacryloxypropane and the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer contains vinyl acetate in an amount of 10-50% by weight. The sandwich glass of the present invention results in an improved resistance to yellowing and less perspective distortion.

Sandwich glasses

A length of sheet material is continuously surface treated, typically modified or coated, by continuously feeding helium gas or a helium gas mixture into a treating chamber while a plasma region is created in the gas under atmospheric pressure, continuously moving a length of sheet material into and out of the chamber through entrance and exit ports to pass through the plasma region, thereby continuously subjecting the sheet at either surface to plasma discharge treatment. The entrance and exit ports are sealed in a less gas tight manner to allow leakage of the helium gas or gas mixture.

Apparatus for the continuous surface treatment of sheet material

A rubber hose comprising an inner tube of synthetic resin, a silver or silver alloy thin film sputtered or ion plated on the inner tube, and a rubber layer heat cured to the thin film through adhesive exhibits low gas and solvent permeability and high flexibility while maintaining such properties even on angular bending.

Low permeable rubber hose

A developing roller includes a metal shaft and a conductive resilient sleeve surrounding the shaft and made of a urethane elastomer containing carbon black with at least pH 5. The developing roller is mounted in an electrophotographic apparatus in combination with a latent image-bearing photoreceptor wherein development is carried out using a non-magnetic single-component toner.

Developing roller and apparatus

A rubber hose comprising an inner tube of synthetic resin, an optional undercoat of a metal or metal compound dry plated on the inner tube, a metal thin film sputtered or ion plated on the inner tube or undercoat from zinc, copper, cobalt, titanium, or an alloy thereof, and a rubber layer on the metal thin film exhibits low gas and solvent permeability while maintaining flexibility. Also provided is a low permeable rubber hose comprising an inner tube of synthetic resin, a thin film of a metal or metal compound dry plated on the inner tube, and a rubber layer heat cured to the thin film through an adhesive.

A sandwich glass comprises two glass plate and a resin layer interposed therebetween. In this case, the resin layer is produced by adding a hydrocarbon resin and an organic peroxide to ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and thermosetting them.

Sandwich glass

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Sayama, Japan

Hideyuki Niwa