Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing member, manufacturing method thereof, and fixing apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定构件,其制造方法和定影装置
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Application No.: US13086679Application Date: 2011-04-14
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Publication No.: US08351837B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Yuji Kitano , Katsuya Abe
- Applicant: Yuji Kitano , Katsuya Abe
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2010-000582 20100105
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a fixing member that can apply sufficient power to press toner particles on a raised portion of a paper surface while also maintaining good conformability to a depressed portion of the paper surface that is an advantage of a surface layer including a soft rubber layer. The fixing member has a surface layer to come into contact with toner, the surface layer has a sea-island structure in which the fluororubber constitutes a sea phase and a silicone compound having a crosslinked structure constitutes an island phase, and in a stress-strain curve of the surface layer, the tangential elastic modulus, the slope of the curve, increases as the strain increases, in the strain range of 0.25 to 0.8.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110194882A1 FIXING MEMBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND FIXING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-08-11
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