Replaceable fuser member

US7115084B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Jiann-Chen Chen · Fairport, US
• Biao Tan · Penfield, US
• Joseph A. Pavlisko · Pittsford, US
• Muhammed Aslam · Rochester, US
• Allen Kass · Pittsford, US
• Nataly Boulatnikov · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2003
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 15, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2221/1639
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A replaceable fuser member including a thin, seamless or welded high temperature nickel sleeve, a base cushion positioned around the sleeve, a primer coat of a silane coupling agent containing epoxies on the sleeve, and an outside coating applied over the base cushion elastomer layer. The sleeve is replaceable on a mandrel positioned in an electrophotographic copying machine in a fuser station of the electrophotographic copying machine.