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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Yuichiro Maehara, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Maehara, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An objective is to provide an intermediate transfer member exhibiting higher transferability together with higher cleaning ability and durability, a manufacturing apparatus of an intermediate transfer member in which no large-scale equipment such as a vacuum evaporator or the like is installed, and an image forming apparatus fitted with the intermediate transfer member. Also disclosed is intermediate transfer memberpossessing substrateand surface layercomposed of at least one layer provided on the surface of substrate, wherein foregoing substratehas a universal hardness of 50-190 N/mm, and foregoing surface layerhas a surface hardness of 3-11 GPa measured in accordance with a nanoindentation method.