Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for producing fixing-unit member and fixing-unit member
- Patent Title (中): 固定单元构件和定影单元构件的制造方法
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Application No.: US13050576Application Date: 2011-03-17
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Publication No.: US08801883B2Publication Date: 2014-08-12
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Fukumoto , Hiromi Kamimura , Shingo Harada , Naoki Yokota
- Applicant: Yasuhiro Fukumoto , Hiromi Kamimura , Shingo Harada , Naoki Yokota
- Applicant Address: JP Sennan-gun, Osaka
- Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Fine Polymer, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sennan-gun, Osaka
- Agency: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP2010-065807 20100323
- Main IPC: B32B37/00
- IPC: B32B37/00 ; B29C65/00 ; B29C65/66 ; B29C65/78 ; B32B37/14

Abstract:
A method for producing a fixing-unit member including a base, a rubber elastic layer, and a PFA layer includes a step of forming a primer layer by applying a primer containing a low-melting fluorocarbon resin to the outer circumferential surface of a rubber roller having the rubber elastic layer on the outer circumferential surface of the base; a step of sheathing the rubber roller with a thermally shrinkable tube formed by diametrically expanding a PFA tube so as to have an inner diameter more than the outer diameter of the rubber roller; a step of forming the PFA layer from the thermally shrinkable tube by heating the thermally shrinkable tube so as to be thermally shrunken and fused with the rubber roller; and a reheating step of heating the PFA layer to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the PFA contained in the PFA layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110236691A1 METHOD FOR PRODUCING FIXING-UNIT MEMBER AND FIXING-UNIT MEMBER Public/Granted day:2011-09-29
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