Claims
- 1. A fixing belt shaped in an endless belt being overlaid on a record sheet to support toner for fixing the toner onto the record sheet as said fixing belt and the record sheet are heated and pressurized, wherein minute hardness of a surface of said fixing belt coming in contact with the toner is 0.1 to 5.
- 2. The fixing belt as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gloss degree of the belt surface coming in contact with the toner is 75 or more.
- 3. The fixing belt as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fixing belt is of a structure wherein an elastic layer and a surface layer are laminated in this order on a heat-resistant base material; andwherein the elastic layer is a rubber layer having a rubber hardness of 15 degrees or less and a layer thickness of 70 μm or less and the surface layer is a fluorine-family resin layer having a gloss degree of 75 or more and a layer thickness of 20 μm or less.
- 4. The fixing belt as claimed in claim 1, wherein the record sheet is a record sheet comprising a thermoplastic transparent resin layer formed on a base material and the toner is fixed into the transparent resin layer.
- 5. A fuser comprising:a fixing belt shaped in an endless belt being overlaid on a record sheet to support toner for fixing the toner onto the record sheet as said fixing belt and the record sheet are heated and pressurized, wherein as the fixing belt, a fixing belt as claimed in claim 1 is used.
- 6. The fuser as claimed in claim 5, wherein the record sheet is a record sheet comprising a thermoplastic transparent resin layer formed on a base material and the toner is fixed into the transparent resin layer.
Priority Claims (2)
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2000-286191 |
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2000-286203 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 09/879,011 filed Jun. 13, 2001, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
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