US 12,421,470 B2
Lubricant composition, transfer device, and image forming apparatus
Masato Furukawa, Kanagawa (JP); Masayuki Seko, Kanagawa (JP); Daisuke Tanemura, Kanagawa (JP); Masato Ono, Kanagawa (JP); and Iori Nishimura, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/664,694.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-176341 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0122440 A1, Apr. 17, 2025
Int. Cl. C10M 103/00 (2006.01); C10M 145/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01); C10N 20/00 (2006.01)
CPC C10M 103/00 (2013.01) [C10M 145/04 (2013.01); G03G 15/161 (2013.01); C10M 2201/1053 (2013.01); C10M 2209/04 (2013.01); C10N 2020/091 (2020.05); G03G 2215/1623 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1661 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lubricant composition fed to an intermediate transfer belt in an intermediate transfer-type electrophotographic image forming method, the lubricant composition comprising:
solid lubricant particles that are inorganic compound particles having an average size of 120 nm or less; and
a binder disposed on surfaces of the solid lubricant particles,
wherein a content of the binder is 0.01% by mass or more and 20.00% by mass or less of an amount of the lubricant composition.