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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2003
Applicant:
Hideyuki Okuyama, Hyogo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideyuki Okuyama, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J002/17 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ink tube () for an ink jet printer is formed by using a thermoplastic elastomer composition, having a Shore-A-hardness of not more than 70, which comprises an olefin thermoplastic resin and a rubber component, containing not less than 30 wt % of butyl rubber, which is dispersed finely by dynamic vulcanization the rubber component in the olefin thermoplastic resin. It is preferable to extrude the thermoplastic elastomer composition tubularly by a resin extrusion method.