18746415. ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBER, FIXING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBER, FIXING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
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RYUNOSUKE Kawahara of Ibaraki (JP)
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBER, FIXING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18746415 titled 'ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBER, FIXING APPARATUS AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
An electrophotographic member comprising: at least a base layer; an elastic layer; and a surface layer in this order, wherein the surface layer comprises a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, at an endothermic curve upon performing two measurements at a ramp up rate and a ramp down rate both set at 20° C./min using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) with a sample sampled from the surface layer as a measurement sample, an endothermic peak temperature in a second temperature raising process is 304° C. or less, an endothermic quantity in a first temperature raising process is 21J/g or more, and D3 is 40 μm or less, where D3 represents an area average diameter of a spherulite at an outer surface of the surface layer.