Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15113900Application Date: 2015-09-25
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Publication No.: US09671731B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Katsuhisa Matsunaka , Yoshihito Oshima , Toshinori Nakayama , Yasuhiro Miyahara
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2014-233134 20141117
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/004887 WO 20150925
- International Announcement: WO2016/079917 WO 20160526
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing member is provided, including a release layer containing a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer (PFA), wherein a content of the perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether (PAVE) based on all PFAs in the release layer is 3.0 mol % or more and 5.8 mol % or less, and an elastic layer having an indentation elastic modulus EITs at a surface thereof and an indentation elastic modulus EITc at a position in a depth of 50 μm from the surface, EITs and EITc being measured at a temperature of 150° C., and EITs is larger than EITc and EITc being 17 MPa or more and 24 MPa or less.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170038707A1 FIXING MEMBER, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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