Abstract:
Provided is a pressing member such that the warm-up time required for increasing the temperature of the pressing member to a temperature sufficient for fixing unfixed toner is reduced and such that wrinkles along the circumferential direction of the pressing member are suppressed. The pressing member includes a base, an elastic layer formed on the outer side of the base, and a surface layer containing a fluororesin formed on the elastic layer, the surface layer being stretched in the longitudinal direction of the pressing member and fixed on the elastic layer. The porosity of the elastic layer is between 20 vol% and 60 vol%, inclusive, and E(MD)/E(ND) is larger than 1.0, where E(ND) represents the elastic modulus of the elastic layer in the thickness direction, and E(MD) represents the elastic modulus of the elastic layer in the longitudinal direction of the pressing member.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a pressure rotating member which achieves the shortening of a warm-up time while suppressing a non-recording material-contacting area's temperature rise. The pressure rotating member which is used in a thermal fixing apparatus includes: a substrate; and an elastic layer that is formed on the substrate and has a void, wherein the elastic layer contains a needle-shaped filler, wherein the needle-shaped filler has such a thermal conductivity »1 of the elastic layer in a direction along a rotary axis of the pressure rotating member as to be 6 times or more and 900 times or less of a thermal conductivity »2 of the elastic layer in a thickness direction.
Abstract:
A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a fixing member includes: a metal mold capable of holding a base material of the fixing member in an inside thereof; and an injecting member including a group of openings for injecting a liquid rubber containing a needle-like filler into the metal mold in which the base material is held. The injecting member is configured so that a ratio of a total perimeter of the group of openings to a sum of a perimeter of an inner surface of the metal mold and an outer surface of the base material is 1.3 or more and 3.3 or less.
Abstract:
An electron-emitting device comprises a pair of oppositely disposed device electrodes and an electroconductive film electrically connecting the device electrodes and having an electron-emitting region formed as part thereof. The electroconductive film is partly or entirely covered by a metal oxide coat containing as principal ingredient with a melting point higher than that of the material of principal ingredient of the electroconductive film. The electroconductive film has also a deposited layer comprising carbon, a carbon compound or a mixture thereof.
Abstract:
Provided that a pressure member configured to reduce a warm-up time required to increase a temperature to a temperature sufficient for fixing an unfixed toner and inhibit the formation of a wrinkle extending in the circumferential direction thereof. The pressure member comprises a base, an elastic layer outside the base, and a surface layer on the elastic layer, the surface layer containing a fluorine-containing resin. The surface layer is fixed on the elastic layer in a state of being stretched in the longitudinal direction of the pressure member, the elastic layer has a porosity of 20% by volume or more and 60% by volume or less, and when the elastic modulus of the elastic layer in the thickness direction is defined as E (ND) and the elastic modulus of the elastic layer in the longitudinal direction of the pressure member is defined as E (MD), E (MD)/E (ND) is larger than 1.0.
Abstract:
An electron-emitting device comprises a pair of oppositely disposed device electrodes and an electroconductive film electrically connecting the device electrodes and having an electron-emitting region formed as part thereof. The electroconductive film is partly or entirely covered by a metal oxide coat containing as principal ingredient with a melting point higher than that of the material of principal ingredient of the electroconductive film. The electroconductive film has also a deposited layer comprising carbon, a carbon compound or a mixture thereof.
Abstract:
An electron-emitting device comprises a pair of oppositely disposed device electrodes and an electroconductive film electrically connecting the device electrodes and having an electron-emitting region formed as part thereof. The electroconductive film is partly or entirely covered by a metal oxide coat containing as principal ingredient with a melting point higher than that of the material of principal ingredient of the electroconductive film. The electroconductive film has also a deposited layer comprising carbon, a carbon compound or a mixture thereof.