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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tokuo Okada, Kodaira, JP;
Koji Takagi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Kaneda, Kodaira, JP;
Toshiaki Arai, Kodaira, JP;
Takahiro Kawagoe, Tokorozawa, JP;
Assignee:
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399286 ;
Abstract
A toner carrier which gives good images (free of fogging in white area, harshness in halftone area, and density variation in black area) even after continuous long runs. The toner carrier includes an electrically conductive elastic layer and a coating layer formed thereon which contains a siloxane-crosslinked acrylic resin obtained from an acrylic copolymer with an alkoxysilyl group by crosslinking and curing.