Overcoat for imaging members

US5162183A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Nero R. Lindblad · Palmyra, US
• Richard L. Schank · Pittsford, US
• Richard W. Bigelow · Webster, US
• Herbert C. Relyea · Webster, US
• Robert E. Trott · Webster, US
• Andrew R. Melnyk · Rochester, US
• Merlin E. Scharfe · Penfield, US
• Walter F. Leising · Webster, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 1991
• Grant date: Nov 10, 1992
• Expiry date: May 10, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G5/0525
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surface layer on an imaging member has a surface roughness which reduces the force necessary for blade cleaning, reduces blade edge truck, reduces blade/substrate friction, inhibits the formation of toner-type deposits on the imaging surface, and/or reduces or eliminates light interference patterns resulting from coherent light, for example, from a raster output scanner.