Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110042856 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - An electrophotographic intermediate transfer belt obtained by applying a coating liquid to any of an inner surface and an outer surface of the mold, and then drying or curing so as to form a film, and demolding the film, including a surface having a black density of 2.2 to 3, and the other surface having a black density which is different from that of the surface by 0.5 or less, wherein the black density is measured by a spectrodensitometer, and the other surface has been in contact with the mold and the surface having the black density of 2.2 to 3 has been exposed to air during the production of the intermediate transfer belt, and wherein the coating liquid comprises at least a carbon black, any of a resin and a resin precursor, and a solvent. | 02-24-2011 |
20110177238 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer belt including a resin layer, which is a surface layer of the intermediate transfer belt, wherein the resin layer has a concavo-convex pattern formed by spherical resin particles which are independently embedded in the resin layer so that the embedment rate of the spherical resin particles in the thickness direction of the resin layer is higher than 50% but lower than 100%. | 07-21-2011 |
20110293824 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - To provide an intermediate transfer belt for use in an electrophotographic apparatus, including as an outermost surface thereof: uniform convex regions formed by aligning independent spherical resin particles in a surface direction; and depressed regions formed of a lubricant layer which respectively lie between the convex regions. | 12-01-2011 |
20120082488 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An intermediate transfer member including a base layer as first layer, an elastic layer as second layer, and a particle layer as third layer and containing fine spherical particles arranged in plane direction thereof where the particle layer has a concavo-convex pattern formed by the fine spherical particles, the elastic layer and the particle layer being formed on the base layer in this order, wherein the intermediate transfer member has a Martens hardness of 1.0 N/mm | 04-05-2012 |
20120201578 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT - An intermediate transfer belt configured to receive a toner image formed by developing, with a toner, a latent image on an image bearing member, the intermediate transfer belt including a base layer and an elastic layer laid on the base layer, wherein the elastic layer includes spherical resin particles and a layer formed of an elastic body, and has a concavo-convex pattern in a surface of the elastic layer, wherein the spherical resin particles are arranged in a plane direction in the surface of the elastic layer, and wherein the intermediate transfer belt has glossiness of 35% or higher as determined based on reflected light at 85° on the surface of the intermediate transfer belt. | 08-09-2012 |
20120230740 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An intermediate transfer belt including: a base layer; and an elastic layer, the elastic layer being laid on the base layer to form a laminated structure, wherein the elastic layer is an acrylic rubber-elastic layer with flame retardancy where the acrylic rubber-elastic layer has VTM-0 grade according to the UL94VTM burning test, wherein the elastic layer has a Martens hardness of 0.2 N/mm | 09-13-2012 |
20120262739 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an intermediate transfer belt, containing a base, an elastic layer formed on the base, and spherical particles deposited on a surface of the elastic layer, in which wherein the elastic layer has micro rubber hardness of 40° or lower in the environment of 10° C. and 15% RH, and the intermediate transfer belt is designed to be mounted in an image forming apparatus. | 10-18-2012 |
20130004212 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an intermediate transfer belt, which contains a base layer, and an elastic layer formed on the base layer, wherein the base layer contains polyimide which has a constitutional unit derived from pyromellitic acid and a constitutional unit derived from diaminodiphenyl ether, wherein the intermediate layer has a curling amount of 1.5 mm or less in an absolute value, and wherein the intermediate transfer belt is configured to receive, by transferring, a toner image formed by developing, with a toner, a latent image formed on an image bearing member. | 01-03-2013 |
20130129395 | BELT FOR AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a belt for an image forming apparatus, which contains: a base layer; an elastic layer; and spherical particles, wherein the belt for an image forming apparatus is provided across a plurality of rollers of the image forming apparatus to rotate, wherein the belt for an image forming apparatus has a laminate structure where at least the base layer and the elastic layer are provided in this order, wherein the spherical particles are partially embedded in an exposed surface of the elastic layer, and wherein, relative to a width direction of the belt for an image forming apparatus, a thickness of an edge portion of the belt for an image forming apparatus is 50% to 95% of a thickness of a center portion of the belt for an image forming apparatus, and an edge curling amount of the belt is 4 mm or less. | 05-23-2013 |
20130334014 | IMAGE FORMING APPRATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a belt member including a substrate; and an elastic layer overlying the substrate, an image former forming an image on the surface of the belt member or a recording material borne thereon, and a contact member contacting the surfaces of both ends of the belt member in its width direction, wherein the contact member has a hardness not greater than 30 when measured by Durometer Type C in an environment of 23° C. and 50% RH. | 12-19-2013 |
20140079445 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND PRODUCING METHOD THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer belt including a base layer, and an elastic layer on the base layer containing spherical particles on a surface thereof and containing an elastic layer ingredient, wherein the elastic layer contains a fatty acid in an amount of 0.001 parts by mass to 0.040 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastic layer ingredient. | 03-20-2014 |
20140248069 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING BELT MEMBER USED IN THE APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer; an image developer developing a latent image formed on the image bearer with a toner to form a toner image thereon; a ring-shaped intermediate transfer belt rotatably stretched by plural tension rollers, and the toner image is first transferred on; a curving roller contacting an outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt the toner image is transferred on and curving the belt inside; and a transferer secondly transferring the toner image on the intermediate transfer belt to a recording medium. The intermediate transfer belt has a double-layered structure formed of an inner layer and an outer layer each including a same resin. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248070 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer belt includes a polyimide resin or a polyamideimide resin including only γ-butyrolactone of from 5 to 5,000 ppm as a residual solvent. | 09-04-2014 |