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20100054782 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THEREOF - It is an object to provide an intermediate transfer member that maintains a good second transferability and a good cleaning property even when print is repeatedly carried out and continuously obtains a high quality tonner image without the occurrence of a non-printing portion of a character image, and an image forming method and a image forming device that use the intermediate transfer member. The intermediate transfer member is used for an image forming device provided with a means which, after the tonner image carried on a surface of a photosensitive member is first transferred to the intermediate transfer member, the tonner image is second transferred to a transfer member. The intermediate transfer member is characterized in that including an inorganic layer on the most outer surface, wherein the inorganic layer defines a contact angle of 30°-60° with respect to methylene iodide and the hardness of the inorganic layer measured by a nanoindentation method is in the range of 3 GPa-10 GPa. | 03-04-2010 |
20100098466 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - The invention provides an intermediate transfer member which is excellent in transferability and adhesion property and exhibits superior durability (releasability, resistance to lack of line images and cracking resistance) even after being used or aged under a severe environment over a long period of time and an image forming apparatus provided therewith. The intermediate transfer member comprises a substrate having thereon from the substrate side a first inorganic compound layer and a second inorganic compound layer, wherein a layer thickness ratio of the second inorganic compound layer to the first inorganic compound layer is not less than 1.0 and not more than 5.0, a carbon content of the first inorganic compound layer is not less than 0.5% by number of atoms and not more than 10% by number of atoms, and a carbon content of the second inorganic compound layer is less than 0.1% by number of atoms. | 04-22-2010 |
20100158583 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER - An intermediate transfer member is provided which enables to maintain superior secondary transferability and enhanced cleaning capability and is also capable of continuing to obtain toner images of superior text reproduction and high quality without causing lack of text images even when making prints of a large number of sheets (e.g., 160,000 sheets). The intermediate transfer member for use in an image forming apparatus having a device capable of transferring a toner image carried on the surface of an electrophotographic photoreceptor primarily to an intermediate transfer member, and secondarily transferring the toner image from the intermediate transfer member to a transfer material, wherein the intermediate transfer member is provided with an elastic layer on the circumference of a resin substrate and further thereon a surface layer, the surface layer exhibits a layer thickness of 10 to 500 nm, the Young's modulus of the surface of the intermediate transfer member which is determined by a nanoindentation method is 0.1 to 5.0 GPa and is 0.0 to 2.0 GPa greater than the Young's modulus of the elastic layer which is determined by a nanoindentation method. | 06-24-2010 |
20130302071 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER COMPRISING AN INORGANIC LAYER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THEREOF - An image forming apparatus may include an electrophotographic photoreceptor and an intermediate transfer member. An image may be formed by primary transferring a toner image held on a surface of an electrophotographic photoreceptor to an intermediate transfer member, and secondary transferring the toner image from the intermediate transfer member to a transferee material. A dispersive component of surface energy of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and a dispersive component of surface energy of the intermediate transfer member may satisfy a relationship of (the dispersive component of surface energy of the electrophotographic photoreceptor)≦(the dispersive component of surface energy of the intermediate transfer member). | 11-14-2013 |
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20130164533 | PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A piezoelectric ceramic having excellent electrical characteristics, and in which all of three crystallographic axes are oriented is obtained by slip cast or sheet forming a ceramic slurry containing plate-shaped ceramic particles in magnetic field. The degree of orientation of a first axis (for example, a c axis) calculated with the Lotgering method based on an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern in a prescribed cross-section of this piezoelectric ceramic is not less than 0.30. With a cross-section where the degree of orientation of the first axis indicates a maximum value being defined as a reference plane, the degree of orientation of a second axis (for example, an a axis) calculated with the Lotgering method based on an X-ray diffraction pattern in a cross-section orthogonal to this reference plane is not less than 0.20. The degree of orientation of the second axis is represented by a value in such a cross-section that the degree of orientation of the second axis attains to a maximum value, among cross-sections orthogonal to the reference plane. | 06-27-2013 |
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20110297320 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention aims at suppressing the self bias generated at the surface of the inner wall of the vacuum processing chamber, to thereby suppress the chipping of the inner wall surface of the vacuum processing chamber or the consumption of the inner parts of the vacuum processing chamber. The present invention provides a plasma processing apparatus comprising a vacuum processing chamber, a vacuum processing chamber lid sealing an upper portion of the vacuum processing chamber, an induction antenna, a Faraday shield disposed between the induction antenna and the vacuum processing chamber lid, and a high frequency power supply for supplying high frequency power to the induction antenna, wherein the induction antenna is divided into two or more parts, the Faraday shield is divided into a division number corresponding to the division number of the induction antenna, and high frequency voltages are applied thereto via a matching box from the one high frequency power supply. | 12-08-2011 |
20120138229 | PLASMA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides a plasma processing apparatus having a means for generating a plasma capable of correcting the eccentricity of the plasma diffused above the wafer caused by magnetic field or by vacuum eccentricity, comprising a vacuum processing chamber in which a sample is processed via plasma, a gas supply means for supplying gas into the vacuum processing chamber, a sample stage disposed within the vacuum processing chamber on which the sample is placed, an induction coil disposed outside the vacuum processing chamber, a radio frequency power supply for supplying radio frequency power to the induction coil, a Faraday shield being capacitively coupled with the plasma, and an eccentricity correction means disposed between the induction coil and a dielectric sealing window constituting an upper surface of the vacuum processing chamber, wherein the eccentricity correction means generates a plasma capable of correcting the eccentricity of the plasma. | 06-07-2012 |