Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electrophotographic belt and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15988180Application Date: 2018-05-24
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Publication No.: US10372067B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Yoshida
- 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: JP2017-106887 20170530; JP2018-087298 20180427
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16 ; H01J37/28 ; B32B27/08 ; H01B1/24 ; C09C1/56 ; G03G15/20

Abstract:
Provided an endless belt-shaped electrophotographic belt comprising an electro-conductive base layer comprising a thermoplastic resin and carbon black, the base layer is a cylindrical extrusion product of a resin mixture comprising the thermoplastic resin and the carbon black, and when observing a cross section of the cylindrical extrusion product with a transmission electron microscope and obtaining an electron image under conditions of a resolution of 0.01 to 1 nm/pixel and a lowest gray of more than 0 and a highest gray of less than 255, and extracting from the TEM image a square region of 100 nm a side in which the carbon black occupies 50 area % or more, among pixels resulting from the carbon black and constituting 1% by frequency from the lowest gray in the square region, pixel group constituted by the pixels that are mutually adjacent, has an area of at least 10 nm2.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180348672A1 ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC BELT AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-12-06
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