Bridgestone Corporation

Kouta Kawano

Wataru Takahashi

Hideharu Daifuku

Hirotaka Tagawa

Takayuki Sugimura

Toru Masuyama

Takuro Sugimoto

An object of the present invention is to provide a toner-conveying roller that has high toner-conveying property and in which a roller-shape thereof is less likely to be transferred to the image, a mold capable of manufacturing said roller, and a method of manufacturing said mold. The toner-conveying roller according to the present invention has a shaft body and a urethane foam layer formed around the shaft body, and recesses and protrusions are irregularly formed on a circumference surface of the urethane foam layer. The mold for manufacturing the roller according to the present invention has recesses and protrusions irregularly formed on the inner surface of a mold for manufacturing the roller. The method of manufacturing a mold used for manufacturing a roller according to the present invention includes: a powder sintering step of applying particles on an inner surface of a mold member, and forming recesses and protrusions on the inner surface of the mold member by heating the mold member having the particles on the inner surface thereof to sinter the particles; or, a fluorine coating step of applying particles on an inner surface of a mold member, and forming recesses and protrusions on the inner surface of the mold member by coating the inner surface having the particles applied thereon with fluorine resin.

Toner conveying roller, mold used for manufacturing roller and method for manufacturing roller

There is a developing roller having a low compression permanent strain without contaminating a photosensitive drum and deteriorating toners. The developing rollercomprises a shaft, an elastic layerformed on an outer periphery of the shaftand a surface coating layerformed on an outer peripheral face of the elastic layer, in which the surface coating layercomprises a urethane resin formed by crosslinking a lactone-modified polyol with a polyisocyanate. The urethane resin is preferable to be formed by crosslinking the lactone-modified polyol with two or more kinds of polyisocyanates.

Developing roller and imaging apparatus comprising the same

A synthetic resin magnet composition that can maintain its good melt flowability without deterioration in moldability or in uniformity of magnetic force even when the amount of magnetic powder being filled is increased, and thus, can accomplish an improvement in magnetic characteristic of the molded-product is provided. Further, the synthetic resin magnet composition is used to provide a synthetic resin magnet molded-product, such as a magnetic roller, that can achieve high-magnetization without causing any variation in surface magnetic force or deterioration in dimensional precision. Such a composition is composed by mixing and dispersing a magnetic powder and at least one type of aromatic polyamine compound to a synthetic resin binder.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kouta Kawano