Thin, thermally conductive fluoroelastomer coated fuser member

US5729813A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Clifford O. Eddy · Webster, US
• Louis D. Fratangelo · Fairport, US
• George J. Heeks · Rochester, US
• Arnold W. Henry · Penfield, US
• Alan R. Kuntz · Webster, US
• Rabin Moser · Fairport, US
• David Battat · Rochester, US
• Samuel Kaplan · Walworth, US
• Santokh S. Badesha · Pittsford, US
• Che C. Chow · Penfield, US
• David H. Pan · Rochester, US
• David J. J. Fraser · Spruce Pine, US
• Yu-hsing Chin · Webster, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/3154
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A hard, long wearing, thermally conductive fuser member comprising a base member and a surface layer wherein said surface layer includes a fluoroelastomer and an alumina filler having an average particle size of from about 0.5 to about 15 micrometers, said alumina being present in an amount to provide a thermal conductivity of at least about 0.24 watts/meter .degree.Kelvin in said surface layer.