Cleaning blade

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9817358-B2
Application number	US-201415105325-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2014
Priority date	Dec 16, 2013
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A cleaning blade ( 1 ) having an elastic body ( 11 ) molded from a rubber base material, and having at least a surface treatment layer ( 12 ) on the area of the elastic body ( 11 ) that is brought into contact with a body to be contacted, wherein the surface treatment layer ( 12 ) is formed by impregnating the surface layer portion of the elastic body ( 11 ) with a surface treatment liquid containing an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent and hardening the liquid. The elasticity modulus of the surface treatment layer ( 12 ) is 40 MPa or less, the elasticity modulus of the elastic body ( 11 ) is 3-20 MPa, and the difference between the elasticity modulus of the surface treatment layer ( 12 ) and the elasticity modulus of the elastic body ( 11 ) is 1 MPa or more.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cleaning blade, comprising:
an elastic body formed of a rubber base material molded product; and
a surface treatment layer on at least an area of the elastic body to be brought into contact with a cleaning object, wherein:
the surface treatment layer is formed by impregnating a surface portion of the elastic body with a surface treatment liquid containing an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent, and hardening the liquid;
the surface treatment layer has an indentation elastic modulus determined according to ISO 14577 of 40 MPa or lower;
the elastic body has an indentation elastic modulus determined according to ISO 14577 of 3 MPa to 20 MPa; and
the difference in indentation elastic modulus between the surface treatment layer and the elastic body is 1 MPa or more;
wherein the indentation elastic modulus was measured through a load-unload test by means of Dynamic Ultra Micro Hardness Tester under the following conditions: retention time (5 s), maximum test load (0.98 N), loading speed (0.14 mN/s), and indentation depth (3 μm to 10 μm).

2. The cleaning blade according to claim 1 , wherein the surface treatment layer has a thickness of 10 μm to 50 μm.

3. The cleaning blade according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between elastic modulus between the surface treatment layer and the elastic body is 1 MPa or more.

4. The cleaning blade according to claim 1 , wherein the surface treatment layer has a dynamic friction coefficient of 1.0 to 2.5 determined according to ISO 8295.

5. The cleaning blade according to claim 1 , wherein the isocyanate compound is selected from the group consisting of tolylene diisocyanate, 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate, p-phenylene diisocyanate, naphthalene diisocyanate 3,3′-dimethylbiphenyl-4, 4′-diyl diisocyanate, xylene diisocyanate, lysine diisocyanate methyl ester, and dimethyl diisocyanate.

6. The cleaning blade according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic body is formed from polyurethane and the isocyante compound is 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate or 3,3′-dimethylbiphenyl-4, 4′-diyl diisocyanate.

Assignees

• Nok Corp
• Synztec Co Ltd

Inventors

• Abe Miyuki
• Sasaki Kenji
• Kawabata Syo
• Abe Katsumi
• KIMURA Natsumi

Classifications

• G03G2221/0005

  Cleaning of residual toner · CPC title

• G03G21/0017 Primary

  Details relating to the internal structure or chemical composition of the blades · CPC title