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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a photoreceptor from being stained, to prevent toner from adhering, and to reduce the coefficient of friction by forming a surface layer on the surface of a conductive rubber layer and making the main material of the surface layer polyester polyurethane resin whose glass transition temperature is specified. SOLUTION: As to this intermediate transfer member 20b; the surface layer 202 is formed on the surface of the conductive rubber layer 201, and the main material of the layer 202 is the polyester polyurethane resin whose glass transition temperature is -20 deg.C to 20 deg.C. An elastic body which is obtained by adding a conductive material, etc., to a suitable rubber material so that conductivity is imparted is used as the layer 201. In this case, it is desirable that the resistance value of the member is adjusted to be an intermediate resistance area without mixing the conductive material to the layer 202 by using the polyester polyurethane resin whose volume resistivity is 10 to 10 Ω.cm as the one for forming the layer 202. Thus, the resistance value of the member can be easily adjusted to the intermediate resistance area.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry out the pollution control or the like of a photosensitive body or the like by using fluorine-containing resin with a functional group reactive with isocyanate group and resin containing a reactive product composed of a polyol compound and a polyisocyanate compound reacted each other to form a skin layer of a member such as a belt or a roll in an OA equipment. SOLUTION: A skin layer 13 containing fluorine containing resin with a functional group reactive with isocyanate and a reactive product of a polyol compound and a polyisocyanate compound reacted each other is formed on an elastic layer or layers 12 formed on one face or both faces of an OA equipment member such as a copier, a printer or the like, for example, of a member such as a belt, a roller, a blade or the like, or of a core material 11 of an intermediate transfer belt 1. As for the fluorine containing resin, anyone can be used as far as having a functional group reactive with isocyanate, and vinyl ether, vinyl ester, acrylate or the like is used preferably. As the functional group reactive with isocyanate, hydroxyl is particularly preferable.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to give a favorable flexibility to this member with characteristics peculiar to fluoroplastic maintained by a method wherein a skin layer containing the graft polymer of a fluoroplastic and a fluororubber is formed on the surface of an apparatus. SOLUTION: A member for OA apparatus, overlaid with a skin layer 13 containing the graft polymer of a fluororubber and a fluoroplastic, assumes a proper form such as a belt-like, a drum-like, a plate-like form or the like. For example, an intermediate transfer belt 1 consists of a core material 11 composing of fabric made of cotton, nylon or the like, elastic layers 12 and 12 formed on one side or both sides of the core material 11 and the skin layers 13 formed on the surface of the elastic layer 12. The lamination of the skin layers 13 onto the elastic layer 12 is executed by painting the graft polymer of the fluororubber and the fluoroplastic dissolved or dispersed in a proper solvent or under high temperature molten state by means of a dipping method, a spraying method or the like or, by chance, by extrusion-molding or injection- molding the graft polymer under high temperature molten state.
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PURPOSE: To improve stability of a friction coefficient from a viewpoint of construction by keeping a contact surface condition constant from the initial use, use passage through final use. CONSTITUTION: At an elastic roll surface for feeding and discharging paper (friction contact surface), a plurality of groove elements 2 whose cross sections are of asymmetrical corrugated shape are formed beforehand at right angles to the paper feed direction so as to obtain 0.02
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PURPOSE:To enhance the function of wear resistance in view of a structure by forming many wear attenuation grooves on the external surface of a roller coming in contact with a sheet-shaped product. CONSTITUTION:Many grooves 2 are formed on the rigid body contact surface 3 of an elastic body roll 1 repeatedly in frictional contact with a rigid body (including paper), and the width of each groove 2 is taken at W with the depth at (t), while a gap between the grooves 2 is taken at L. When the width W is too small, both sides of the grooves 2 come in contact with each other, due to an external force, leading to the loss of the effectiveness of the grooves 2. On the other hand, when the width W is too large, not only a friction factor is reduced, but also an abnormal vibration is induced or an abnormal fracture occurs, due to the reduction of a contact area with the rigid body. Thus, the width W is taken as 0.1mm
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for measuring minim hardness capable of precisely measuring the hardness of a minim region even if a soft material is used as a specimen; and to provide a method for measuring minim hardness capable of precisely measuring the hardness of a boundary face between adjacent portions of the specimen having portions with different compositions.SOLUTION: This apparatus for measuring the minim hardness includes an indenter 2 for being pressed into the surface of a specimen 1, and the tip of the indenter 2 has a diameter within a range of 1-50 μm and an angle within a range of 1-60°. This method for measuring the minim hardness measures the hardness of the boundary face between adjacent portions of the specimen 1 that has portions with different compositions, uses the device for measuring the minim hardness, and presses the indenter 2 into the boundary face.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rubber tensile testing method capable of clarifying anisotropy in tensile test due to the effects of calender grain etc. of vulcanized rubber even through the use of a testing apparatus for ring-like test strips. SOLUTION: With a racetrack-shaped test strip 1 consisting of a pair of semicircular parts 2 and a pair of linear parts 3 connecting both semicircular parts 2 wound around latch parts 4a and 4b at the semicircular parts 2, one latch part 4b is linearly separated and displaced from the other latch part 4a. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for efficiently producing a crosslinked rubber having low hardness, small compression set and excellent slipperiness and surface flatness and suitable for a laminated blade for electrophotographic devices. SOLUTION: A crosslinked rubber is produced by compounding a liquid rubber with ingredients, kneading the mixture, forming to a desired form after defoaming, and curing by crosslinking, wherein an olefinic powdery wax or a PTFE/polyethylene alloy powdery wax is compounded as one of the ingredients, and the kneading operation is carried out by using a planetary mixer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of efficiently manufacturing a rubber roller, which has excellent characteristics low in hardness and reduced in compression permanent strain, with good dimensional precision. SOLUTION: In this manufacturing method of the rubber roller for compounding and kneading compounding agents with a liquid rubber and molding the kneaded mixture into a roller shape after defoaming to crosslink and cure the same, a photopolymerization initiator is compounded with the liquid rubber as one of the compounding agents and kneading operation is performed using a planetary type mixer to crosslink and cure the kneaded matter by the irradiation with ultraviolet rays. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conductive roller in which no foul odor remains because unpleasant odors due to decomposed gases of organic peroxides are not emitted during manufacture of the conductive roller and which has low hardness and low compression set. SOLUTION: The conductive roller 1 comprises a shaft 2 and an elastic layer 3 formed on the periphery of the shaft 2, wherein the elastic layer 3 is formed using a rubber composition prepared by blending a component (A): polybutadiene rubber or polyisoprene rubber having a cis-1,4-bond content of ≥90% with a component (B): 1,1-di(t-hexylperoxy)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane and/or 1,1-di(t-amylperoxy)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane and a component (C): a conductive agent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT