US 12,422,761 B2
Fixing member
Noriaki Kobayashi, Ibaraki (JP); Naoki Akiyama, Ibaraki (JP); Hiroto Sugimoto, Ibaraki (JP); Hiroki Muramatsu, Tokyo (JP); Akeshi Asaka, Chiba (JP); and Yasuhiro Miyahara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/871,776.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-123508 (JP), filed on Jul. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0031631 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 9/0819 (2013.01) [G03G 15/2053 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fixing member comprising:
a slide layer having a cylindrical shape and a thickness of 8 μm or more and 20 μm or less;
a base layer formed on an outer side of the slide layer; and
a surface layer formed on an outer side of the base layer,
wherein the slide layer has Benard convection cell structure having an average diameter of 50 μm or more and 200 μm or less on a surface that is not in contact with the base layer, and the slide layer includes an additive having a median particle diameter D50 of 4.5 μm or less and an aspect ratio of 30 or more and less than 50.