Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuser device having reduced electrostatic offset
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Application No.: US17280954Application Date: 2019-12-27
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Publication No.: US11353813B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Masaya Suzuki , Kenji Sasaki , Wataru Nemoto , Tomohiro Kondo
- Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2019-003843 20190111
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/051383 WO 20191227
- International Announcement: WO2020/145191 WO 20200716
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A tubular fuser device rotates and is in contact with a sheet on which a positively charged toner image is formed to fix the toner image to the sheet. The fuser device includes a tubular substrate made of a metal, a rubber layer covering the outer periphery of the substrate, an adhesion layer covering the outer periphery of the rubber layer, and a surface layer made of a resin covering the outer periphery of the adhesion layer. In the fuser device, a charge decay ΔV at a moment 120 seconds after end of charging a surface of the surface layer to −1 kV is zero, and an electrostatic capacity per unit area C in a thickness direction of the fuser device is equal to or less than 3.30 pF/cm2.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210341862A1 FUSER DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-11-04
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