WO2016208600A1 - クリーニングブレード - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a cleaning blade used in an image forming apparatus such as an electrophotographic copying machine and printer, or a toner jet copying machine and printer.
- an electrophotographic process at least cleaning, charging, exposure, development, and transfer processes are performed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member.
- a cleaning blade that removes and cleans toner remaining on the surface of the photosensitive drum, a conductive roll that imparts uniform charge to the photosensitive member, a transfer belt that transfers a toner image, and the like are used.
- the cleaning blade is mainly made of a thermosetting polyurethane resin from the viewpoint of plastic deformation and wear resistance.
- the friction coefficient between the blade member and the photosensitive drum is increased, the blade is turned over or abnormal noise is generated, and the driving torque of the photosensitive drum must be increased.
- the tip of the cleaning blade is wound around a photosensitive drum or the like, stretched and cut, and the tip of the cleaning blade may be worn and damaged.
- the required specifications differ between a cleaning blade incorporated in a general printer or the like and a cleaning blade incorporated in a process cartridge.
- the cleaning blade incorporated in the process cartridge needs to have a high elastic modulus of the base material, and among them, it is required to have wear resistance, chipping resistance, reduction in film thickness reduction of the photoreceptor, and filming resistance. Is done.
- an object of the present invention is to provide a cleaning blade that is excellent in anti-bake resistance and can simultaneously achieve suppression of filming and improvement of cleaning properties.
- An aspect of the present invention that solves the above-described problem is a cleaning blade that includes an elastic body that is a molded body of a rubber base, and that has at least a surface treatment layer at a portion that contacts the contacted body of the elastic body,
- the surface treatment layer is formed by impregnating and curing a surface treatment liquid containing an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent in a surface layer portion of the elastic body, and the indentation elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer is 21 MPa or more and 56 MPa or less,
- the indentation elastic modulus of the elastic body is larger than 20 MPa and not more than 35 MPa, and the difference between the indentation elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the indentation elastic modulus of the elastic body is 1 MPa or more and 21 MPa or less. is there.
- the surface treatment layer preferably has a thickness of 10 ⁇ m or more and 50 ⁇ m or less.
- the thickness of the surface treatment layer is thin, even if the indentation elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer is larger than the indentation elastic modulus of the elastic body, it is possible to follow the deformation of the elastic body, thereby further improving the anti-choke property. .
- the present invention it is possible to realize a cleaning blade that is excellent in anti-brick property and can simultaneously achieve suppression of filming and improvement of cleaning properties.
- the thickness of the surface treatment layer is set to 10 ⁇ m or more and 50 ⁇ m or less, it is excellent in anti-choke property, and it is possible to reliably realize both suppression of filming and improvement of cleaning properties.
- the cleaning blade 1 includes a blade body (also referred to as a cleaning blade itself) 10 and a support member 20, and the blade body 10 and the support member 20 are connected via an adhesive (not shown). It is joined.
- the blade body 10 includes an elastic body 11 that is a molded body of a rubber base material.
- the elastic body 11 has a surface treatment layer 12 formed on the surface layer portion thereof.
- the surface treatment layer 12 is formed by impregnating the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 with a surface treatment liquid and curing.
- the surface treatment layer 12 may be formed at least on the portion of the elastic body 11 that contacts the object to be cleaned, but in this embodiment, the surface treatment layer 12 is formed on the surface layer portion of the entire surface of the elastic body 11.
- the indentation elastic modulus (a kind of bulk elastic modulus, hereinafter simply referred to as elastic modulus) of the surface treatment layer 12 is 21 MPa or more and 56 MPa or less. If the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 is less than 21 MPa, the effect of the surface treatment layer does not appear remarkably, and if it is greater than 56 MPa, the surface treatment layer 12 cannot follow the deformation of the elastic body 11, and the surface treatment layer 12 Will cause a bite.
- the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is greater than 20 MPa and not greater than 35 MPa.
- the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is 20 MPa or less, the torque of the contacted body, that is, the photosensitive drum in the present embodiment, increases, and the effect of suppressing filming decreases.
- the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is larger than 35 MPa, sufficient adhesion between the photosensitive drum and the cleaning blade cannot be obtained.
- the difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 and the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is 1 MPa or more and 21 MPa or less. This is because if the difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 and the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is less than 1 MPa, the effect of suppressing filming cannot be obtained sufficiently, and if it exceeds 21 MPa, the anti-bake property decreases.
- the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 is 21 MPa or more and 56 MPa or less
- the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 is greater than 20 MPa and 35 MPa or less
- the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer 12 and the elastic modulus of the elastic body 11 are When the difference is 1 MPa or more and 21 MPa or less, as will be described in detail later, the cleaning blade 1 is excellent in anti-caking property and can simultaneously achieve suppression of filming and improvement of cleaning properties.
- the surface treatment layer 12 is preferably formed on the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 with an extremely thin thickness, specifically, 10 ⁇ m or more and 50 ⁇ m or less. This thickness is extremely thin, about 1/10 of the thickness of the conventional surface treatment layer 12, but follows the deformation of the elastic body 11 even if the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer is increased as described above. In addition, it is excellent in anti-bake resistance.
- Such a surface treatment layer 12 having an extremely thin thickness can be formed on the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 by using a surface treatment liquid having a high affinity with the elastic body 11.
- a surface treatment liquid having a high affinity with the elastic body 11 When such a surface treatment liquid is used, the elastic body 11 is easily impregnated with the surface treatment liquid, and an excessive amount of the surface treatment liquid does not remain on the surface of the elastic body 11, thereby removing an excessive amount of the isocyanate compound as in the past. The removal process to perform becomes unnecessary.
- the surface treatment liquid used for forming the surface treatment layer 12 contains an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent.
- the isocyanate compounds contained in the surface treatment liquid include tolylene diisocyanate (TDI), 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), paraphenylene diisocyanate (PPDI), naphthylene diisocyanate (NDI), and 3,3'-dimethyl. Examples thereof include isocyanate compounds such as biphenyl-4,4′-diyl diisocyanate (TODI), and multimers and modified products thereof.
- a surface treatment liquid a mixed solution of an isocyanate compound, a polyol and an organic solvent, or an isocyanate group-containing compound having an isocyanate group at the end obtained by reacting an isocyanate compound and a polyol, that is, an isocyanate group-containing prepolymer. It is preferable to use a mixed solution of a polymer and an organic solvent.
- a mixed solution is more preferable.
- the bifunctional isocyanate compound and the trifunctional polyol react to form an isocyanate group in the step of impregnating and curing the surface treatment liquid.
- An isocyanate group-containing prepolymer having a terminal is formed, and this is cured and reacts with the elastic body 11.
- the surface treatment layer 12 formed by using the surface treatment liquid that reacts with the bifunctional isocyanate compound and the trifunctional polyol to become an isocyanate group-containing prepolymer or contains the isocyanate group-containing prepolymer is thin.
- the surface treatment liquid is appropriately selected in consideration of wettability to the elastic body 11, the degree of immersion, and the effective period of the surface treatment liquid.
- Bifunctional isocyanate compounds include 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), 4,4'-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate (H-MDI), trimethylhexamethylene diisocyanate (TMHDI), tolylene diisocyanate ( TDI), carbodiimide-modified MDI, polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate, 3,3'-dimethylbiphenyl-4,4'-diyl diisocyanate (TODI), naphthylene diisocyanate (NDI), xylene diisocyanate (XDI), lysine diisocyanate Examples include methyl ester (LDI), dimethyl diisocyanate, and multimers and modified products thereof.
- MDI 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate
- IPDI isophorone diisocyanate
- H-MDI
- bifunctional isocyanate compounds those having a molecular weight of 200 to 300 are preferably used.
- 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) and 3,3′-dimethylbiphenyl-4,4′-diyl diisocyanate (TODI) can be mentioned.
- polyurethane when polyurethane is used as the elastic body 11, the affinity between the bifunctional isocyanate compound and the polyurethane is high, and integration due to the bonding of the surface treatment layer 12 and the elastic body 11 can be further increased.
- trifunctional polyols examples include trifunctional aliphatic polyols such as glycerin, 1,2,4-butanetriol, trimethylolethane (TME), trimethylolpropane (TMP), 1,2,6-hexanetriol, and trifunctional fats.
- TME trimethylolethane
- TMP trimethylolpropane
- 1,2,6-hexanetriol examples include polyether triols obtained by adding ethylene oxide, butylene oxide and the like to the aliphatic polyol, and polyester triols obtained by adding lactone and the like to the trifunctional aliphatic polyol.
- the trifunctional polyols those having a molecular weight of 150 or less are preferably used.
- trimethylolpropane (TMP) is mentioned.
- a surface treatment layer having a high hardness and a high reaction with isocyanate can be obtained. Further, by containing a trifunctional polyol in the surface treatment liquid, a trifunctional hydroxyl group reacts with an isocyanate group, and a surface treatment layer 12 having a high crosslink density having a three-dimensional structure can be obtained.
- the organic solvent is not particularly limited as long as it dissolves an isocyanate compound or polyol, but an organic solvent having no active hydrogen capable of reacting with the isocyanate compound is preferably used.
- organic solvents include methyl ethyl ketone (MEK), methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK), tetrahydrofuran (THF), acetone, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, toluene, xylene and the like.
- MEK methyl ethyl ketone
- MIBK methyl isobutyl ketone
- THF tetrahydrofuran
- acetone ethyl acetate
- butyl acetate butyl acetate
- toluene xylene and the like.
- the lower the boiling point of the organic solvent the higher the solubility, the faster drying after impregnation, and the uniform processing.
- These organic solvents are appropriately selected
- the elastic body 11 is made of a matrix having active hydrogen.
- the matrix having active hydrogen include a matrix based on rubber, such as polyurethane, epichlorohydrin rubber, nitrile rubber (NBR), styrene rubber (SBR), chloroprene rubber, ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM). It can.
- polyurethane is preferable in view of ease of reaction with an isocyanate compound.
- the rubber base material made of polyurethane examples include those mainly composed of at least one selected from aliphatic polyether, polyester and polycarbonate.
- the main component is a polyol containing at least one selected from these aliphatic polyethers, polyesters and polycarbonates, which can be bonded by a urethane bond, preferably a polyether-based polyurethane, Examples thereof include polyester-based polyurethane and polycarbonate-based polyurethane.
- an elastic body bonded by a polyamide bond or an ester bond instead of a urethane bond can be used.
- thermoplastic elastomers such as polyether amide and polyether ester can also be used.
- the surface treatment layer 12 is formed on the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 by impregnating the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 with the surface treatment liquid and curing.
- the method of impregnating the surface treatment liquid into the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 and curing is not particularly limited.
- a method in which the elastic body 11 is immersed in a surface treatment liquid and then heated, or a method in which the surface treatment liquid is applied to the surface of the elastic body 11 by spray coating or the like and impregnated, and then heated is exemplified.
- the method to heat is not limited, For example, heat processing, forced drying, natural drying, etc. are mentioned.
- the surface treatment layer 12 is formed during the impregnation of the surface treatment liquid into the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11. And the polyol react to prepolymerize and cure, and the isocyanate group reacts with the elastic body 11 to proceed.
- the isocyanate compound and the polyol in the surface treatment liquid are reacted in advance according to predetermined requirements to make the surface treatment liquid a prepolymer having an isocyanate group at the terminal.
- the formation of the surface treatment layer 12 proceeds by impregnating the surface treatment liquid into the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11 and then curing, and the isocyanate group reacts with the elastic body 11.
- Such prepolymerization of an isocyanate compound and a polyol may occur while the surface treatment liquid is impregnated into the surface layer portion of the elastic body 11, and how much reaction is performed depends on the reaction temperature, the reaction time, It can be controlled by adjusting the leaving environment.
- the surface treatment solution Preferably, it is carried out at a temperature of the surface treatment solution of 5 ° C. to 35 ° C. and a humidity of 20% to 70%.
- a crosslinking agent, a catalyst, a curing agent, and the like are added to the surface treatment liquid as necessary.
- the formation part of the surface treatment layer 12 of the elastic body 11 may include at least a part in contact with the contacted body. For example, you may form only in the front-end
- the elastic member 11 may be formed only on the tip portion or on the surface layer portion of the entire elastic member in a state where the support member 20 is bonded to the elastic member 11 to form a cleaning blade.
- the elastic body 11 may be cut after the surface treatment layer 12 is formed on one surface, both surfaces, or the entire surface of the rubber molded body before being cut into a blade shape.
- the surface treatment layer 12 is excellent in anti-scratch property, filming suppression and cleaning property.
- a cleaning blade capable of achieving the improvement at the same time can be realized.
- the thickness of the surface treatment layer it is possible to reliably realize compatibility between suppression of filming and improvement of cleaning properties while being excellent in anti-bake properties.
- cleaning blades having different elastic moduli of the surface treatment layer, elastic moduli (hereinafter referred to as rubber elastic bodies), or differences in these moduli were prepared by the following procedure. Examples 1 to 4 and Comparative Example 1 It was set to ⁇ 2.
- Example 1 (Production of rubber elastic body) After 100 parts by mass of an ester polyol (molecular weight 2000) as a polyol and 58 parts by mass of 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) as an isocyanate compound were reacted at 115 ° C. for 20 minutes, 1,4-butane as a crosslinking agent 11.6 parts by mass of diol and 2.9 parts by mass of trimethylolpropane were mixed and cured by heating in a mold kept at 140 ° C. for 40 minutes. After centrifugal molding, the rubber elastic body was cut into a width of 15.0 mm, a thickness of 2.0 mm, and a length of 350 mm. The resulting rubber elastic body had an elastic modulus of 28.9 MPa.
- MDI 4,4′-diphenylmethane diisocyanate
- the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the rubber elastic body is an indentation elastic modulus according to ISO14577.
- the indentation elastic modulus is a condition of a holding time of 5 s, a maximum test load of 0.98 N, and a load speed of 0.14 N / s by a load-unload test using a dynamic ultra micro hardness tester (DUH-201) manufactured by Shimadzu Corporation.
- the indentation depth was measured from 3 ⁇ m to 10 ⁇ m below.
- the measurement sample is a sample cut from a sheet produced under the same conditions, and the indentation elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer is measured from the center of the rubber elastic sheet on which the surface treatment layer is formed by measuring 40 mm ⁇ 12 mm.
- the sample was fixed on a slide glass with a double-sided tape with the mirror surface (opposite to the mold surface at the time of centrifugal molding) facing up, and left in a thermostat set at 23 ° C. for 30 to 40 minutes.
- 20 points were measured at 30 ⁇ m intervals in the longitudinal direction in parallel with the ridgeline at a position 30 ⁇ m away from the longest ridgeline at the center in the longitudinal direction of the measurement sample, and the average value was taken as the measurement value.
- seat of the rubber elastic body before forming a surface treatment layer was used for the measurement of the indentation elastic modulus of a rubber elastic body.
- the thickness of the surface treatment layer was measured by the following method according to JIS Z2255 and ISO14577 using a dynamic ultra-micro hardness meter manufactured by Shimadzu Corporation. First, the surface hardness of the rubber elastic body is measured, then the cross section of the surface-treated rubber elastic body is cut out, the hardness change from the surface layer of the cross section toward the inside of the rubber elastic body is measured, and the hardness at a distance of 10 ⁇ m from the surface layer The distance where the amount of change was 30% or less was measured, and the distance from the surface layer to the distance was defined as the thickness of the surface treatment layer.
- Example 2 A rubber elastic body was obtained in the same procedure as in Example 1 except that 60 parts by mass of MDI was used. The obtained rubber elastic body had an elastic modulus of 32.1 MPa. The same as in Example 1 except that a surface treatment solution having a concentration of 15.0% of MDI 12.0 parts by mass, TMP 0.6 parts by mass, 1,3-PD 2.4 parts by mass, and MEK 85.0 parts by mass was used. The rubber elastic body was surface treated according to the procedure. As a result, a cleaning blade having a surface treatment layer having an elastic modulus of 42.8 MPa and a thickness of 30 ⁇ m and having a difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body was 10.7 MPa.
- Example 3 A rubber elastic body was obtained in the same procedure as in Example 2. Then, the rubber elastic body was subjected to a surface treatment in the same procedure as in Example 1 except that a surface treatment solution having a concentration of 12.5% of MDI 9.6 parts by mass, TMP 2.9 parts by mass and MEK 87.5 parts by mass was used. It was. As a result, a cleaning blade having a surface treatment layer with an elastic modulus of 38.3 MPa and a thickness of 30 ⁇ m and having a difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body was 6.2 MPa.
- Example 4 A rubber elastic body was obtained in the same procedure as in Example 1 except that the MDI was 55 parts by mass. The resulting rubber elastic body had an elastic modulus of 20.4 MPa. And the rubber elastic body was surface-treated in the same procedure as in Example 1 except that a 10% concentration treatment liquid of 7.7 parts by mass of MDI, 2.3 parts by mass of TMP, and 90 parts by mass of MEK was used. As a result, a cleaning blade having a surface treatment layer having an elastic modulus of 21.7 MPa and a thickness of 30 ⁇ m and having a difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body was 1.3 MPa was obtained.
- Example 1 A rubber elastic body was obtained in the same procedure as in Example 2. And the surface treatment of the rubber elastic body was performed in the same procedure as Example 2 except having performed the surface treatment 3 times. As a result, a cleaning blade having a surface treatment layer having an elastic modulus of 62.0 MPa and a thickness of 30 ⁇ m and having a difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body was obtained.
- Example 2 A rubber elastic body was obtained in the same procedure as in Example 2. Further, a cleaning blade was obtained without performing surface treatment.
- Test Example 1 Evaluation of Elastic Modulus of Surface Treatment Layer and Rubber Elastic Body and Difference of Elastic Modulus> Using the cleaning blades of Examples 1 to 4 and Comparative Examples 1 and 2, evaluation of anti-choke, filming suppression and cleaning properties was performed. These evaluations were made using 55 A3 size color MFPs / machine.
- Evaluation of chipping resistance is ⁇ when there is no chipping or wear after printing 100,000 sheets with the blade installed in the cartridge, ⁇ when there is only a small amount of chipping or wear, and when there is chipping or wear.
- the evaluation of the cleaning property is as follows: ⁇ when there is no toner slipping after mounting a blade in the cartridge and printing 100,000 sheets, ⁇ when the toner slipping is slightly observed, and ⁇ when the toner slipping is observed. did. The results are shown in Table 1.
- the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer is 21 MPa or more and 56 MPa or less (specified value), and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body is more than 21 MPa.
- the cleaning blades of Examples 1 to 4 which are large and 35 MPa or less (specified value) and the difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body is 1 MPa or more and 21 MPa or less (specified value) are The filming suppression property and the cleaning property were evaluated as “good”.
- Comparative Example 1 in which the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer was larger than 56 MPa and the difference between the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer and the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body was larger than 21 MPa, the evaluation of anti-scratch property was x. Moreover, the comparative example 2 which did not perform surface treatment became evaluation of filming suppression property x. Thus, by setting the elastic modulus of the surface treatment layer, the elastic modulus of the rubber elastic body, and the difference between these elastic moduli within a predetermined range (Examples 1 to 4), it is excellent in anti-caking property, filming suppression and It was found that an improvement in cleaning performance can be achieved at the same time.
- the cleaning blade according to the present invention is suitable for use in cleaning blades used in image forming apparatuses such as electrophotographic copying machines and printers, or toner jet copying machines and printers, but can also be used in other applications. . Examples of other applications include various blades and cleaning rolls.
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図1に示すように、クリーニングブレード1は、ブレード本体(これ自体をクリーニングブレードともいう)10と支持部材20とを備えており、ブレード本体10と支持部材20とは図示されない接着剤を介して接合されている。ブレード本体10は、ゴム基材の成形体である弾性体11で構成される。弾性体11は、その表層部に表面処理層12が形成されている。表面処理層12は、弾性体11の表層部に表面処理液を含浸させ硬化することにより形成したものである。表面処理層12は、弾性体11のクリーニング対象と当接する部分に少なくとも形成すればよいが、本実施形態では、弾性体11の表面全体の表層部に表面処理層12を形成してある。
(ゴム弾性体の作製)
ポリオールとしてエステル系ポリオール(分子量2000)100質量部と、イソシアネート化合物として4,4′-ジフェニルメタンジイソシアネート(MDI)58質量部とを115℃×20分間反応させた後、架橋剤として1,4-ブタンジオール11.6質量部およびトリメチロールプロパン2.9質量部を混合し、140℃に保った金型で40分間加熱硬化させた。遠心成形後、幅15.0mm、厚さ2.0mm、長さ350mmに切断加工しゴム弾性体とした。得られたゴム弾性体は、弾性率が28.9MPaであった。
MDI(日本ポリウレタン工業(株)製、分子量250.25)16.0質量部、TMP(日本ポリウレタン工業(株)製、分子量134.17)0.6質量部、1,3-プロパンジオール(デュポン(株)製、分子量76.09)3.4質量部、MEK80質量部の濃度20%の表面処理液を調製した。
表面処理液を23℃に保ったまま、ゴム弾性体を表面処理液に10秒間浸漬後、50℃で保持されたオーブンで1時間加熱した。その後、表面処理されたゴム弾性体を支持部材に接着してクリーニングブレードとした。これにより、弾性率49.8MPaで厚さ30μmの表面処理層を有し、表面処理層の弾性率とゴム弾性体の弾性率との差が20.9MPaのクリーニングブレードを得た。
MDI60質量部とした以外は実施例1と同様の手順でゴム弾性体を得た。得られたゴム弾性体は、弾性率が32.1MPaであった。そして、MDI12.0質量部、TMP0.6質量部、1,3-PD2.4質量部、MEK85.0質量部の濃度15.0%の表面処理液を用いた以外は実施例1と同様の手順でゴム弾性体の表面処理を行った。これにより、弾性率42.8MPaで厚さ30μmの表面処理層を有し、表面処理層の弾性率とゴム弾性体の弾性率との差が10.7MPaのクリーニングブレードを得た。
実施例2と同様の手順でゴム弾性体を得た。そして、MDI9.6質量部、TMP2.9質量部、MEK87.5質量部の濃度12.5%の表面処理液を用いた以外は実施例1と同様の手順でゴム弾性体の表面処理を行った。これにより、弾性率38.3MPaで厚さ30μmの表面処理層を有し、表面処理層の弾性率とゴム弾性体の弾性率との差が6.2MPaのクリーニングブレードを得た。
MDI55質量部とした以外は実施例1と同様の手順でゴム弾性体を得た。得られたゴム弾性体は、弾性率が20.4MPaであった。そして、MDI7.7質量部、TMP2.3質量部、MEK90質量部の濃度10%の処理液を用いた以外は実施例1と同様の手順でゴム弾性体の表面処理を行った。これにより、弾性率21.7MPaで厚さ30μmの表面処理層を有し、表面処理層の弾性率とゴム弾性体の弾性率との差が1.3MPaのクリーニングブレードを得た。
実施例2と同様の手順でゴム弾性体を得た。そして、表面処理を3回実施した以外は実施例2と同様の手順でゴム弾性体の表面処理を行った。これにより、弾性率62.0MPaで厚さ30μmの表面処理層を有し、表面処理層の弾性率とゴム弾性体の弾性率との差が29.9MPaのクリーニングブレードを得た。
実施例2と同様の手順でゴム弾性体を得た。また、表面処理は施さずにクリーニングブレードを得た。
<表面処理層及びゴム弾性体の弾性率、並びにこれらの弾性率の差の評価>
実施例1~4及び比較例1~2のクリーニングブレードを用いて、耐カケ性、フィルミング抑制性及びクリーニング性の評価を行った。なお、これらの評価は、A3サイズ カラーMFP 55枚/分 機を用いて行った。
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- ゴム基材の成形体である弾性体を有し、前記弾性体の被接触体と当接する部位に少なくとも表面処理層を有するクリーニングブレードであって、
前記表面処理層は、イソシアネート化合物と有機溶剤とを含有する表面処理液を前記弾性体の表層部に含浸し硬化して形成され、
前記表面処理層の押し込み弾性率は21MPa以上56MPa以下であり、
前記弾性体の押し込み弾性率は20MPaより大きく35MPa以下であり、
前記表面処理層の押し込み弾性率と前記弾性体の押し込み弾性率との差は、1MPa以上21MPa以下であることを特徴とするクリーニングブレード。 - 請求項1に記載のクリーニングブレードにおいて、
前記表面処理層は、厚さが10μm以上50μm以下であることを特徴とするクリーニングブレード。
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