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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2003
Jiann-hsing Chen, Fairport, NY (US);
Joseph A. Pavlisko, Pittsford, NY (US);
Muhammed Aslam, Rochester, NY (US);
Po-jen Shih, Webster, NY (US);
Jiann-Hsing Chen, Fairport, NY (US);
Joseph A. Pavlisko, Pittsford, NY (US);
Muhammed Aslam, Rochester, NY (US);
Po-Jen Shih, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A fusing-station member, which member can be a compliant fuser roller or a compliant pressure roller, for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, and which member includes a base cushion layer formed on a core member, with the base cushion layer coated by a thin protective gloss control layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the base cushion layer is a highly cross-linked condensation-polymerized polyorganosiloxane material made by thermal curing of a formulation which includes three types of filler particles, namely hollow flexible microballoon particles, strength-enhancing solid particles, and thermal-conductivity-enhancing solid particles. In other preferred embodiments, expandable microspheres are included in lieu of the hollow flexible microballoon particles in an otherwise similar uncured formulation, which expandable microspheres are transformed into expanded hollow microballoon particles during the thermal curing.