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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2003
Jiann-chen Chen, Fairport, NY (US);
Biao Tan, Penfield, NY (US);
Allen Kass, Pittsford, NY (US);
Garold F. Fritz, Williamson, NY (US);
Steven O. Cormier, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Ralph E. Williams, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph A. Pavlisko, Pittsford, NY (US);
Jiann-Chen Chen, Fairport, NY (US);
Biao Tan, Penfield, NY (US);
Allen Kass, Pittsford, NY (US);
Garold F. Fritz, Williamson, NY (US);
Steven O. Cormier, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Ralph E. Williams, Rochester, NY (US);
Joseph A. Pavlisko, Pittsford, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve and an outside topcoat applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a machine mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser section of the electrophotographic copying machine. The method includes the use of a mandrel having a coefficient of thermal expansion similar to that of the sleeve to support the sleeve during positioning of a cured base cushion layer around the sleeve and a cured topcoat layer over the cured base material.