Protecting agent for image bearing member and production method therefor, protection layer forming apparatus, image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge
US8080096B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 14, 2007 |
| Grant date | Dec 20, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 20, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G5/14721
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
To provide an image bearing member protecting agent that includes at least a hydrophobic organic compound and an amphiphile organic compound. Preferred embodiments are that the hydrophobic organic compound is a hydrocarbon wax, and the hydrocarbon wax is at least a wax selected from normal paraffins, isoparaffins, and cycloparaffins; and that the amphiphile organic compound is an polyalcohol esterified compound including a nonionic surface active surfactant, and the nonionic surface active surfactant is an alkyl carboxylic acid represented by a structural formula, CnH2n+1COOH.
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