Coated fuser members and methods of making coated fuser members

US5547759A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Jiann-Hsing Chen · Fairport, US
• Lawrence P. DeMejo · Rochester, US
• Gary F. Roberts · Macedon, US
• Richard J. Kosakowski · Rochester, US
• Muhammed Aslam · Rochester, US
• John E. Derimiggio · Fairport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1993
• Grant date: Aug 20, 1996
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/31699
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Coated fuser members such as a fuser roller, pressure roller, or fuser belt, and the method of making the coated fuser members are disclosed. The release coating comprises an outermost layer of fluoropolymer resin uniquely bonded to a fluoroelastomer layer by means of a fluoropolymer-containing polyamide-imide primer layer.