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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2009
Elias Panides, Whitestone, NY (US);
Ruddy Castillo, Briarwood, NY (US);
Joannes N. M. DE Jong, Hopewell Function, NY (US);
Lloyd A. Williams, Mahopac, NY (US);
Liang-bih Lin, Rochester, NY (US);
Bin Zhang, Penfield, NY (US);
Elias Panides, Whitestone, NY (US);
Ruddy Castillo, Briarwood, NY (US);
Joannes N. M. de Jong, Hopewell Function, NY (US);
Lloyd A. Williams, Mahopac, NY (US);
Liang-Bih Lin, Rochester, NY (US);
Bin Zhang, Penfield, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
Provided are vacuum transport systems, methods of making them and methods of transporting one or more objects. In accordance with various embodiments, there is a vacuum transport system including a vacuum plenum and one or more transport members configured to rotate around the vacuum plenum and wherein at least one of the one or more transport members can include a substrate, the substrate including a plurality of holes extending from a first side proximate to the vacuum plenum to a second side proximate to an object, wherein a surface of the second side comprises a textured surface having an average roughness Ra of about 2 μm to about 100 μm.