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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2012
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc., Sennan-gun, Osaka, JP;
Shingo Nakajima, Osaka, JP;
Jun Sugawara, Osaka, JP;
Yoshitaka Ikeda, Sennan-gun, JP;
Daisuke Shoji, Sennan-gun, JP;
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC., Sennan-gun, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a polyimide tube that can be produced at a low cost and has good durability and a good offset property, a method for producing the polyimide tube, and a fixing belt which includes the polyimide tube as a base and which has good durability and a good offset property. Provided are a polyimide tube including a base resin containing a polyimide resin having good rigidity and a soft polyimide resin having good flexibility in a mass ratio of 30:70 to 70:30, 20% to 50% by volume of graphite, 3% by volume or more of a highly conductive carbon black particle, and 0.5% by volume or more of a carbon nanotube relative to the volume of the base resin, a method for producing the polyimide tube, and a fixing belt including the polyimide tube as a base.