Tsuchiya Tsco Co., Ltd.

Ultrafab, Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masaru Nakayama

Shinji Kawatani

Yoji Kanaoka

Isao Shokaku

Kenta Nakamura

Shinichi Maeda

Hiroyuki Osugi

Toyohiro Kanzaki

Yasuyuki Ohara

Makoto Hasegawa

Seiji Yamaguchi

Yukinori Kurakawa

Naoki Murasawa

Alan J Demello

Yoshihiro Takanashi

Grant E Wylie

Toru Miyagawa

James V Albanese

Takashi Kawashita

Alan J DeMello

Grant E c/o Ultrafab Inc Wylie

Weatherseals are provided by a pair of base members which may be attached to a pile formed by winding fibers around a band as the band travels along an endless path. A section of the pile on one side of the endless band is cut to provide cut pile section and a continuous pile section. The continuous pile section forms the bow, arch or loop by disposing the base members in side-by-side, back-to-back, or perpendicular relationship. The cut pile section may be removed at the base members or halves of the cut pile section maybe left in place. The cut pile section halves and the outside surface of the bow, arch, or ioop may be attached by base members to a member, such as by adhesive or via one or more T-shaped slots, that is in sealing relationship with another member and engagable therewith to provide a resilient seal.

Weatherseals

A cleaning material or a sealing material is attached to a supporting body facing a moving body that contacts microscopic particles. The cleaning material or the sealing material has a ground fabric formed with a knit fabric. The knit fabric is obtained through warp knitting ground yarns. Pile yarns are raised on the ground fabric. The pile yarns slide on the moving body to scrape off the microscopic particles on the moving body, thereby cleaning the surface of the moving body. The pile yarns also blocks flow of microscopic particles through the space between the moving body and the supporting body and collect the particles.

Cleaning material and sealing material for microscopic particles

A seal member seals a housing that accommodates fine particles used for printing images and a movable member for feeding the particles to a printing mechanism. The seal member resists leakage of the particles from between the housing and the movable member. The seal member includes fibers for capturing the particles and a support layer for supporting the fibers, wherein the fibers are inclined relative to the support layer at a predetermined angle.

Seal member for impeding leakage of toner in a printing apparatus

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Masaru Nakayama