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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Mark Cameron Zaretsky, Rochester, NY (US);
Andrew Peter Kittleson, Rochester, NY (US);
James H. Huntington, Penfield, NY (US);
Timothy John Young, Williamson, NY (US);
Jerry Eugene Livadas, Webster, NY (US);
Mark Cameron Zaretsky, Rochester, NY (US);
Andrew Peter Kittleson, Rochester, NY (US);
James H. Huntington, Penfield, NY (US);
Timothy John Young, Williamson, NY (US);
Jerry Eugene Livadas, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrophotographic (EP) printer for transferring a toner image to a receiver sheet has a tensioned rotatable transport web with a Young's modulus of at least 1 GPa. The transport web is wrapped around a compliant image-bearing member. A compressible, rotatable nip-forming member that is relatively less stiff than the image-bearing member is adjacent to the transport web on the opposite side thereof from the image-bearing member. A mount holds the nip-forming member against the image-bearing member, and permits the axis of rotation of the nip-forming member to move closer to or farther from the transport web. When the leading edge of the receiver on the web engages with the image-bearing member, the nip-forming member compresses. The axis of rotation of the nip-forming member translates by an amount less than the thickness of the receiver sheet minus the compression of the compliant coating of the image-bearing member.