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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
May. 27, 1993
Louis D Fratangelo, Fairport, NY (US);
Santokh S Badesha, Pittsford, NY (US);
Arnold W Henry, Pittsford, NY (US);
Robert M Ferguson, Penfield, NY (US);
David H Pan, Rochester, NY (US);
George J Heeks, Rochester, NY (US);
Victor Berko-Boateng, Penfield, NY (US);
Lieng-Huang Lee, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A fuser member comprised of a supporting substrate comprising an outer layer of a volume grafted elastomer, which is a substantially uniform integral interpenetrating network of a hybrid composition of a fluoroelastomer and a polyorganosiloxane, said volume graft having been formed by dehydrofluorination of said fluoroelastomer by a nucleophilic dehydrofluorinating agent, followed by addition polymerization by the addition of an alkene or alkyne functionally terminated polyorganosiloxane and a polymerization initiator; and wherein said outer layer contains a reactive metal oxide in an amount of from about 2 to about 7 weight percent.