Xerox Corporation

Michael Stephen Roetker

Jonathan H Herko

Scott J Griffin

Jin Wu

David W Martin

Kyle B Tallman

Edward F Grabowski

Kathleen M Carmichael

Satchidanand Mishra

Robert C U Yu

John Joseph Darcy, Iii

Liang-Bih Lin

Anthony M Horgan

Kenny-Tuan Dinh

Dante M Pietrantoni

Yuhua Tong

Markus Rudolf Silvestri

Kent J Evans

Geoffrey M T Foley

Francisco Jose Lopez

Yonn K Rasmussen

Santokh Singh Badesha

Varun Sambhy

Felix J Santana

Lin Ma

Stephen T Avery

Eric Robert Dudek

David Joseph Gervasi

David M Skinner

Mandakini Kanungo

Richard L Post

Dennis J Prosser

Satish R Parikh

Jimmy E Kelly

John A Bergfjord, Sr

Donald J Goodman

Amy C Porter

Joellen Simone

David A DeHollander

Kock-Yee Law

Robert C Yu

Bing R Hsieh

Moritz Patrick Wagner

Brian P Gilmartin

Matthew Michael Kelly

John J Darcy

Terry L Street

Chakkaravarthy Chidambareswarapattar

Qi Ying Li

Robert J Flanagan

John P Kerwawycz

James F Dildine, Jr

Matthew J Torpey

J Stephen Olesiuk

Jason Mathew LeFevre

Dale S Renfer

Eliud Robles Flores

Huoy-Jen Yuh

Peter John Knausdorf

Jack T LeStrange

James Edward Williams

Joseph C Sheflin

Carlos Manuel Terrero

Jorge Antonio Alvarez

Paul S Bonino

Mark C Petropoulos

Alexander N Klymachyov

Donald C VonHoene

Susan M VanDusen

Eliud Robles-Flores

Kamran U Zaman

Jason M LeFEVRE

M John Hinckel

Donald R Laflair

Karl V Thomsen

Donald C Von Hoene

Neil S Patterson

Ryan J Ehmann

Colleen A Helbig

Robert Jian Zhang

Kenny-tuan T Dinh

Phillip J Wantuck

Michael L Mehan

Barbara D Ceglinski

Angela Schnuerch

Vincent J Cilento

Joseph S Cappiello

Tsu-sen Chow

Ngoc-Tram Le

Harry F Freitas, Jr

George Leonidas Vassilaros

Darren Smith

Leonard F Quinn

Miguel A Boscan

Mark C Petropoulos, Jr

A laser perforation system, including a drive roller, a tensioner roller spaced apart from the drive roller, a thin film belt arranged around both the drive roller and tensioner roller, the thin film belt including a front surface facing radially outward and a rear surface facing radially inward, a backstop arranged radially within the thin film belt, and a laser head arranged proximate the front surface, the laser head operatively arranged to direct a laser at the thin film belt to create holes therein.

System and method for improving the release of chips in the laser perforation of thin films

Provided herein is a topcoat composition comprising at least one fluorosilicone, a hydride-functional crosslinking agent, an infrared-absorbing filler, and at least one dispersant that is non-reactive with the hydride-functional crosslinking agent, by weight based on a total weight of the topcoat composition, wherein the topcoat composition has a degree of crosslinking between about 10 micrograms/hour/milligrams to about 20 micrograms/hour/milligrams. Further provided herein are methods of making the topcoat composition, as well as an imaging blanket and methods of reducing coating defects on a media coated using the imaging member.

Topcoat composition of imaging blanket with improved properties

The present disclosure is directed to a multilayer imaging blanket for a variable data lithography printing system, including: a multilayer base having a lower contacting surface configured to wrap around or to be mounted on a cylinder core of the variable data lithography printing system; and a platinum catalyzed fluorosilicone surface layer opposite the lower contacting surface; wherein the multilayer base is a sulfur-free carcass including: a top layer including a sulfur-free rubber substrate such as an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber substrate, a bottom layer including the lower contacting surface; and a compressible layer disposed between the top layer and the bottom layer, the compressible layer being attached to a surface of the top layer opposite the platinum catalyzed fluorosilicone surface layer and a surface of the bottom layer opposite the lower contacting surface, optionally the top layer further comprises a reinforcing fabric layer, the reinforcing fabric layer attached to a surface of the compressible layer opposite the bottom layer.

Multi-layer imaging blanket

A printed electronic device may comprise a plurality of contact pads arranged in a pattern, a plurality of electrode traces arranged in another pattern, the plurality of electrode traces comprising a set of bottom electrode traces and a set of top electrode traces, each electrode trace in electrical communication with an associated contact pad of the plurality of contact pads, and a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell located at an intersection of a pair of electrode traces of the plurality of electrode traces and comprising a bottom electrode layer formed from a region of one of the bottom electrode traces, a top electrode layer formed from a region of one of the top electrode traces, and a ferroelectric layer between the bottom and top electrode layers. The plurality of contact pads comprises at least one unmodified contact pad having a surface area, shape and size, the plurality of contact pads further comprising at least one modified contact pad having a reduced surface area, and a different size, a different shape, or both, as compared to the at least one unmodified contact pad.

Printed electronic devices exhibiting improved yield

Printed electronic devices are provided. In embodiments, such a device comprises a plurality of contact pads arranged in a pattern; a plurality of electrode traces arranged in another pattern, the plurality of electrode traces comprising a set of bottom electrode traces and a set of top electrode traces, each electrode trace in electrical communication with an associated contact pad of the plurality of contact pads; a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell located at an intersection of a pair of electrode traces of the plurality of electrode traces and comprising a bottom electrode layer formed from a region of one of the bottom electrode traces, a top electrode layer formed from a region of one of the top electrode traces, and a ferroelectric layer between the bottom and top electrode layers; and a protective layer covering the plurality of electrode traces, the protective layer formed from a curable composition comprising an amine modified polyester (meth)acrylate, a (meth)acrylated amine oligomer, a (meth)acrylate monomer, a clay mineral, and a photoinitiator.

Protective layers for high-yield printed electronic devices

A coated, printed electronic device may comprise a plurality of contact pads arranged in a pattern, a plurality of electrode traces arranged in another pattern, the plurality of electrode traces comprising a set of bottom electrode traces and a set of top electrode traces, each electrode trace in electrical communication with an associated contact pad of the plurality of contact pads, a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell located at an intersection of a pair of electrode traces of the plurality of electrode traces and comprising a bottom electrode layer formed from a region of one of the bottom electrode traces, a top electrode layer formed from a region of one of the top electrode traces, and a ferroelectric layer between the bottom and top electrode layers, and a protective layer covering the plurality of electrode traces and extending laterally beyond each edge of each electrode trace to provide a buffer zone surrounding each electrode trace, the buffer zone extending from an end of each electrode trace to cover a portion of each associated contact pad in an overlapping region, wherein each contact pad also has at least one uncovered edge.

Coated printed electronic devices exhibiting improved yield

A media transport system for conveying sheets of media along a process path extending from a media-uptake zone and thereafter through a print zone. The system includes a transport belt for holding the sheets of media generally flat via vacuum for ink jet printing. The media transport system includes a seamed vacuum transport belt, and a platen supporting the belt. The belt comprises a partially-conductive coating having a surface resistivity of from about 10to about 10ohms per square on a polymeric substrate. The partially-conductive coating comprises a polyester and a conductive component such as carbon black, and optionally includes a plasticizer and a leveling agent. The polymeric substrate is either a thermoplastic or a thermoset material.

Ink-jet printing systems

Disclosed herein are methods for reducing drooling, wetting or adhesion on a front face of an inkjet printhead configured for ejecting aqueous ink. The methods including disposing an anti-wetting, low adhesion coating onto a surface of the inkjet printhead front face, wherein the anti-wetting, low adhesion coating is a reaction product of a reactant mixture including a triisocyanante and a perfluoropolyether diol compound having an ethyoxylated spacer; and ejecting a drop of an aqueous ink having a surfactant from the printhead, wherein the aqueous ink drop exhibits a contact angle of greater than about 40&#xb0; and a sliding angle of less than about 30&#xb0; with a surface of the coating on the inkjet printhead front face.

Anti-wetting, low adhesion coatings for aqueous ink printheads

Exemplary embodiments provide anti-wetting, low adhesion coatings for use with aqueous ink jet printheads. Exemplary embodiments directed to aqueous ink jet printheads with the anti-wetting, low adhesion coating on the front face thereof and methods for reducing drooling, wetting or adhesion on a front face of an ink jet printhead configured for ejecting aqueous ink are also described.

An inkjet printhead includes a front face having a polymer coating, the polymer coating including an oleophobic grafted polymer having a crosslinked fluoroelastomer and a perfluorinated polyether grafted to the crosslinked fluoroelastomer.

Grafted polymers as oleophobic low adhesion anti-wetting coatings for printhead applications

An oleophobic grafted polymer includes a crosslinked fluoroelastomer and a perfluorinated polyether grafted to the crosslinked fluoroelastomer. A process for making an oleophobic grafted polymer includes crosslinking a fluoroelastomer with an aminofunctionalized silane and grafting an alkoxysilane-terminated perfluorinated polyether to the crosslinked fluoroelastomer.

Grafted polymers as oleophobic low adhesion anti-wetting coatings

A transfer assist member comprising a plurality of layers, one of the layers being a check film layer comprised of a crosslinked mixture of aminoplast resins, and polyester polyols present on a support polymer layer.

Transfer assist members

A transfer assist member comprising a plurality of layers, one of the layers being a check film layer comprised of a thermoplastic layer present on a polymer layer.

There is described a transfer assist blade for an electrostatographic machine. The transfer assist blade includes a wear layer for contacting a copy sheet, an interior layer having a thickness of from about 150 microns to about 500 microns and a back layer comprising a thermoset polyimide having dispersed therein carbon particles such that an out surface of the back layer has a surface resistance of from about 1&#xd7;10ohms to about 9.99&#xd7;10ohms.

Transfer assist blade

A coating for an ink jet printhead front face, wherein the coating comprises an oleophobic low adhesion coating having high thermal stability as indicated by less than about 15 percent weight loss when heated to up to 300&#xb0; C., and wherein a drop of ultra-violet (UV) gel ink or a drop of solid ink exhibits a contact angle of greater than about 45&#xb0; and sliding angle of less than about 30&#xb0; with a surface of the coating, wherein the coating maintains the contact angle and sliding angle after the coating has been exposed to a temperature of at least 200&#xb0; C. for at least 30 minutes. In particular, the coating shows no oil on the coating surface after curing.

Thermally stable oleophobic low adhesion coating for inkjet printhead face

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Michael Stephen Roetker