Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Kousuke Minematsu

Yasunori Nimura

Ryosuke Yamaoka

Satoshi Tatsumi

Takahiro Morita

Junichiro Suenaga

To provide an elastic roll for an electro-photographic apparatus that includes an elastic body layer having a low hardness and being excellent in fatigue resistance, and thus is resistant to fatigue, and to provide a method for manufacturing the same. An elastic rollfor an electrophotographic apparatus includes a shaft bodyand a foamed elastic body layerprovided on an outer periphery of the shaft bodywherein the foamed elastic body layerconsists of a silicone rubber foamed body including a plurality of air bubblesin its base material containing cross-linked silicone rubber and a reinforcement material, and wherein the foamed elastic body layer has a communication degree of 40% or more. It is preferable that the elastic rollshould further include a skin layerin the foamed elastic body layeron an outer peripheral side.

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Komaki, Japan

Kousuke Minematsu