Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing belt and method of manufacturing the fixing belt
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Application No.: US17458863Application Date: 2021-08-27
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Publication No.: US11429046B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Akeshi Asaka , Naoki Akiyama , Hiroto Sugimoto , Hiroki Muramatsu , Yasuhiro Miyahara , Noriaki Kobayashi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JPJP2020-147983 20200903
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A rotatable endless fixing belt configured to fix a toner image borne on a recording material includes a base body and a polyimide layer. The polyimide layer is formed on an inner-circumferential-surface of the base body and configured to slide on a backup member in contact with the backup member. The polyimide layer includes filler having shape anisotropy. An orientation ratio of the filler inclined with respect to a generating line of the fixing belt by a predetermined angle or less is smaller in a first area than in a second area in a cross section of the fixing belt taken along the generating line of the fixing belt, the first area being an area formed in an inner-circumferential-surface side of the polyimide layer in a thickness direction, the second area being an area formed in a base-body side of the polyimide layer in the thickness direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220066370A1 FIXING BELT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE FIXING BELT Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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