Sleeved rollers for use in a fusing station employing an internally heated fuser roller

US6393249B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• NexPress Solutions LLC · US

Inventors

• Muhammed Aslam · Rochester, US
• Jiann-Hsing Chen · Fairport, US
• Arun Chowdry · Pittsford, US
• James E. Mathers · Ulster, US
• John W. May · Rochester, US
• Borden H. Mills, III · Rochester, US
• Alan Richard Priebe · Rochester, US
• Kenneth D. Stack · Rochester, US
• Joseph A. Pavlisko · Pittsford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 4, 2000
• Grant date: May 21, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 4, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49544
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A conformable roller for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, the fusing station being provided with a pressure roller and a fuser roller for fusing a toner image on a receiver, the fuser roller made from a plurality of layers surrounding an axis of rotation, the conformable roller including a rigid cylindrically symmetric core member; a flexible replaceable removable compliant sleeve member in the form of a tubular belt surrounding and nonadhesively intimately contacting the core member; and the fusing station including an internal heat source for the fuser roller, at least one of the plurality of layers being thermally conductive.