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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1996
Peter J Bloemen, Cuijk, NL;
Jan J van der Steen, Venray, NL;
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A process suitable for making a corona wire assembly for use in an electrostatographic reproduction apparatus involves attachment of a terminal to a corona wire. The process has the steps of positioning said terminal and said corona wire such that a portion of the corona wire is touching the terminal at a contact position; one end of the corona wire is held by a holding device and the unattached end is drawn under a tensioning force from 1 to 3 N across a wire clamp; applying laser energy to the contact position for melting at least part of the terminal in the locality of the contact position; and solidification of the molten part of the terminal for forming a bond with the corona wire. In a preferred aspect, the process includes the additional step laser trimming off of an end-tip of the corona wire.