CONDUCTIVE ELASTIC ROLLER AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE SAME

• Main Author: SAKATA, JUNJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.08.2016
• Subjects: BEARINGS; BLASTING; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHTING; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; MAGNETOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; SHAFTS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

This invention is a conductive elastic roller (1) comprising a shaft member (2) and one or more elastic layers (3) disposed on an outside of the shaft member (2) in a radial direction, wherein at least one of the elastic layers (3) is composed of an ultraviolet-curing type resin formed by curing a raw material for the elastic layer comprising a urethane acrylate oligomer (A), a photo-polymerization initiator (B) and a conductive agent (C) through ultraviolet irradiation, and the urethane acrylate oligomer (A) is a urethane acrylate oligomer synthesized by using as a polyol a polyether polyol (a1) having a proportion of primary hydroxyl groups in hydroxyl groups located at molecular ends of not less than 40% obtained by an addition polymerization of propylene oxide to a polyhydric alcohol alone, or the polyether polyol (a1) and another polyol (a2), and provides a conductive elastic roller (1) provided with an elastic layer having a low hardness, a small compression residual strain and an improved stain resistance to an adjoining member such as Organic Photoconductors or the like.