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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8038591 | Image forming apparatus component with triboelectric properties The present disclosure relates to an image forming device component that includes an elastomeric material having a surface and a triboelectric charging material that may be exposed on the elastomeric material surface. The triboelectric material may be exposed by a f... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7976447 | Conductive rubber roller and transfer roller A conductive rubber roller having a rubber layer on a conductive core material. The rubber composition constituting the rubber layer contains a rubber component and a filler. The rubber component contains an epichlorohydrin rubber. The filler includes carbon black (... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7771333 | Conveyor roller system An aircraft conveyor system comprising an aircraft including an aircraft cargo storage bay; and a roller mounted within the aircraft cargo storage bay, the roller including a one-piece integral body having a cylindrical shape, the entirety of the body being made sol... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7348058 | Electrically conductive roll An inexpensive electrically conductive roll which is easily produced compared with conventional rolls, offers stable adhesion at the interface with time lapse after mixing adhesive components, which is not affected by environment during storage of the core after bei... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7321745 | Developer supply roller and developing unit A developer supply device provided is in contact with a developer carrying device. It comprises a surface member having at least one opening elongated in an axial direction of the developer supply device. The number of cellular walls counted in the circumferential d... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7308854 | Printing member provided with identification means defined by or connectable to updateable means for recording data relative to the member and useful for its utilization A printing member such as a printing cylinder includes an at least partly metal cylinder, or a sleeve to be mounted on a mandrel rotating about its axis. The printing member comprises a body having a thickness. With the printing member there is associated an activat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7291663 | Conductive elastomer composition, conductive roller, and conductive belt A conductive roller or a conductive belt is composed of a conductive elastomer composition including a polymer composition having a plurality of carbon-to-carbon double bonds and containing not less than 40 mol % of ethylene oxide; an organometallic salt containing ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288058 | Semi-conductive roll A semi-conductive roll is provided including a shaft, a low-hardness base layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, and a coating layer formed by coating the low-hardness base layer radially outwardly. The coating layer includes one of a rubber ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7261680 | Stress and/or temperature-indicating composition for roll covers An industrial roll includes: a substantially cylindrical core and a cover overlying the adhesive layer. The cover typically comprises a polymeric top stock layer which comprises a mixture of a polymeric material and at least one of a piezochromic material and a ther... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263325 | Auger for use in an image forming device A helical auger member for transporting toner in an image forming apparatus. The auger member may be implemented as part of a waste toner removal system for removing toner from a photoconductive member of a toner cartridge. Toner that is removed by a cleaner member ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7222568 | Method for flexographic multi-color printing using anilox rollers having different diameters A method for flexographic multi-color printing, wherein a print medium web is passed continuously through a flexographic printing press having at least two ink units, each ink unit including a printing cylinder, an anilox roller and an ink sup-ply system adapted to ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207933 | Carburized roller member made of high carbon chromium steel A roller member comprising high carbon chromium bearing steel having a carburization treatment. The bearing steel comprising a surface portion defined as a range between a surface of a rolling face of the roller member to a depth where a maximum shearing stress acts... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7163202 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus comprising the sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device comprises a sheet feeding member having an outer layer thereof, a sheet loaded on a sheet loading member being depressed on a peripheral surface of the outer layer, the sheet feeding member delivering the sheet depressed to the peripheral surf... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7149466 | Conductive rubber member A conductive rubber member having a rubber layer, disposed in an outermost layer thereof, formed by using a rubber composition containing an ionic-conductive rubber, the rubber composition further containing a dielectric loss tangent-adjusting filler. The conductive... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144525 | Elastic member of semiconductive polymer and OA equipment using the same An elastic member of a semiconductive polymer comprising a conductive composition containing a conductive polymer and binder polymer, wherein the elastic member satisfies both characteristics of (A) a variation of 1.5 digit or less between the electrical resistance ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7114438 | Printing machine including central impression cylinder Printing machine having at least one impression cylinder (16), characterised in that the impression cylinder (16) has a cylinder body (44) made of a material which, in circumferential direction of the impression cylinder (16) has a linear... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7070552 | Electroconductive rubber roller An electroconductive rubber roller (10) whose outermost layer consists of a rubber layer (1) made of a rubber composition containing an ionic-conductive rubber as a main component thereof. The surface of the rubber layer consists of an oxide film; and ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067027 | Method of making an electro-mechanical roll Method of making an electro-mechanical roll such as a bias transfer roll for use in an electrostatographic apparatus such as a printing or copying apparatus comprising a conductive core having a segmented layer of compressible material positioned in a tandem relatio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058344 | Developing apparatus A developing apparatus supplies a developer from a developing roller to an image-bearing body that bears an electrostatic latent image thereon. A toner-supplying roller is rotatably supported to oppose the developing roller. A rotating body has recesses formed in it... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7051554 | Tightening a fiber roll cover Rolls for generally conveying sheets, such as of steel or glass over a roller typically have a steel mandrel and fiber-containing roll cover, with the fiber roll cover pressed between end plates. In a roll end assembly including the end plates there is now provided ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7018512 | Roll, in particular, calender roll A paper processing roll for use in a calender of a paper-making machine which during operation can be exposed to increased temperatures is provided with a heat-treated surface which is produced by hot-grinding or hot-balancing or both. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014604 | Paper machine roll cover A paper machine roll cover surface layer has a mixture of an elastomeric material and HDPE particles. The HDPE particles have surface modification to improve roll cover performance. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6952550 | Toner supply roll A toner supply roll free from occurrence of an imaging failure. The toner supply roll comprises a shaft (1) and a urethane foam layer (2) provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft (1), wherein when the urethane foam layer is compresse... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6945921 | Roller for a printer, fax machine or copier A roller intended to be in contact with toner particles is provided with a cured resin layer having homogeneously dispersed carbon black aggregates and having a thickness of less than 200 μm, whereby the carbon black aggregates have a weight average size low... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942607 | Charge roller of developing device for image forming apparatus A charge roller utilizes a foam rubber substance where epichlorohydrin oxide rubber and an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber are mixed at a ratio of 5:95, or utilizing a crosslinking rubber substance made of epichlorohydrin oxide rubber and acrylonitrile butadie... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6939279 | Tire for skew reducing roller A roller assembly for a sheet material transport assembly is disclosed, wherein skewing of the transported sheet material relative to the transport assembly is reduced. The roller assembly includes an elongate shaft having a compliant layer disposed about the shaft.... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6875163 | Industrial sponge roller device having reduced residuals An industrial sponge device and a method of manufacturing the same. The sponge is made from a polyvinyl acetal material with a process in which the pores are formed by gas to provide an open pore structure having no fibrils. Additionally, the sponge is purified by a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6843761 | Paper feed roller and method of manufacture The present invention relates to paper feed rollers required to transfer papers in printers, facsimiles, copiers, etc. with accurately, and provides novel paper feed rollers which are lighter, less expensive and mass-producible with larger diameters as compared with... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836636 | Transfer roller and image-forming apparatus The transfer roller of the present invention is a member comprising a shaft and an elastic foamed material layer provided on an outer circumference of the shaft and electrifying a recording medium to transfer a developer onto the above recording medium, wherein the ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6811524 | Elastic roll, process for producing such a roll, and process of repairing the roll A roll for smoothing a web, a process for making the roll and a process of repairing the roll. The roll includes a roll core having an outer surface. A covering layer is disposed on the outer surface of the roll core. The covering layer has an inner surface and an o... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6793611 | Paper feeding roller A paper-feeding roller (1) formed by cylindrically molding a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer in which a rubber or a thermoplastic elastomer that can be crosslinked is dispersed by dynamic cross... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6793612 | Industrial sponge roller device having reduced residuals An industrial sponge device wherein the sponge is made from a polyvinyl acetal material with a process in which the pores are formed by gas to provide an open pore structure having no fibrils. Additionally, the sponge is purified by an extracting process which inclu... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6776745 | Toner supply roller A toner supply roller comprises a metallic core shaft and an electrically conductive elastic layer formed to surround the outer surface of the shaft. The conductive elastic layer is formed of open-cell polyurethane foam. The polyurethane foam is impregnated with an ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6758995 | Production method for paper feed roller A paper feed roller-producing method is to be provided, which enables more inexpensive mass produce of a high precision paper feed roller, with a high precision, having no connecting portion in a roller portion, by using a hydraulic composition. The method fo... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6739051 | Method for manufacturing a pressure roller A pressure roller for a fixing device is manufactured by extruding silicone rubber on a shaft, foaming the extruded silicone rubber, subjecting the foamed silicone rubber to primary and secondary heat treatments, polishing the heat-treated silicone rubber, and then ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6697593 | Developing device using a developing roller and image forming apparatus including the same A developing roller of the present invention is made up of a nonmagnetic sleeve and a magnet roller disposed in the sleeve. The magnet roller includes a cylindrical magnet produced by molding a mixture of magnetic powder and a high polymer, and a single r... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6682467 | Elastic roll and method of making the roll Roll for smoothing a web and method of making the roll, wherein the roll includes a hard roll core. An elastic covering layer is arranged on an outside surface of the hard roll core. The elastic covering layer includes an elastic matrix material and fiber... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6671958 | Method for producing a roll for a paper/boardmaking machine A roll for a paper or board machine is produced by forming a tubular roll blank by bending out of a planar sheet or by means of centrifugal casting. The roll blank is first coated with a material having a modulus of elasticity and a density lower than tho... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6666807 | Coating rod for paper manufacturing machines The invention concerns a coating bar for pulp and paper manufacture, comprising a substrate coated over at least the greater part of its surface with a coat comprising a ceramic, characterised in that the coat consists of a mixture of ceramics, the coat h... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6648807 | Conductive rubber roller In a conductive rubber roller including a conductive support and a rubber layer, the rubber layer includes a component (A), an epichlorohydrin rubber containing 40 mol % or more of ethylene oxide, and a component (B), an acrylonitrile butadiene rubber com... | 11/18/2003 |
