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Photoreceptor calendering method

US5911934A · kind A · utility

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16Claims
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Filing dateSep 5, 1997
Grant dateJun 15, 1999
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Expiry dateSep 5, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29L2009/00
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method to remove during fabrication of a flexible electrostatographic imaging member, the curl from a curled layered member having a top surface and a bottom surface and comprised of a substrate and a thickest coated layer including: (a) heating a section of the curled layered member to at least the glass transition temperature of the thickest coated layer, thereby defining a heated layered member section containing a thickest coated layer section and a substrate section; (b) compressing the top surface and the bottom surface of the heated layered member section to expand the thickest coated layer section beyond the dimensions of the substrate section; and (c) cooling the heated layered member section such that the expanded thickest coated layer section shrinks to about the dimensions of the substrate section.

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