Image transfer device incorporating a fuser roller having a thick wearable silicone rubber surface

US6298216A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ten Cate Enbi · NL

Inventors

• Michael McMindes · Rochester, US
• James Montgomery · Bergen, US
• Eric Stypa · Hamlin, US
• Michael Goretzky · Fraunberg, DE
• Gerhard Loedermann · Munich, DE
• Franz Wittmann · Hockenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/2041
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electrostatographic apparatus and method for fixing toner particles to a receiver, involving the use of a new fusing roller that has a lifetime longer than previous rollers and that rarely, if ever, needs to be cleaned.