Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing member, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16026471Application Date: 2018-07-03
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Publication No.: US10579000B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Masanori Murakami
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2017-137003 20170713
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing member comes in contact with a recording material, and the fixing member includes: an inner layer; an outer layer; and a graphite layer provided between the inner layer and the outer layer, wherein the graphite layer is bonded to at least any one of the inner layer and the outer layer, and a surface of the graphite layer to be bonded to the at least any one of the layers is ozone-treated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190018349A1 FIXING MEMBER, FIXING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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