US 12,078,944 B2
Intermediate transfer belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus
Daisuke Tanemura, Kanagawa (JP); Masato Ono, Kanagawa (JP); Shigeru Fukuda, Kanagawa (JP); Masato Furukawa, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroaki Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yosuke Kubo, Kanagawa (JP); Iori Nishimura, Kanagawa (JP); Masayuki Seko, Kanagawa (JP); Koichi Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP); and Satoya Sugiura, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/353,397.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-170991 (JP), filed on Oct. 25, 2022; and application No. 2023-048789 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0152077 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/162 (2013.01) [G03G 15/161 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intermediate transfer belt comprising:
metal oxide particles as a solid lubricant on a surface of the intermediate transfer belt;
wherein an average spacing between the metal oxide particles on the surface is 1,000 nm or less, and
an average height of the metal oxide particles from the surface is 15 nm or more and 320 nm or less.