ENDLESS BELT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, CYLINDRICAL APPLICATION DIE FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT COMPOSED THEREOF, AND INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER APPARATUS HAVING THE INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an endless belt with which satisfactory optical characteristics, such as full glossiness, can be obtained, and optimum characteristics, such as glossiness, can be controlled and moreover twisting, deformation, etc., of the belt can be made.;SOLUTION: The endless belt 4 is composed of a synthetic resin which has fine ruggedness, having surface roughness with anisotropy in an axial direction and a peripheral direction on one surface. In the belt 4, the fine ruggedness is formed by the transfer of the fine ruggedness made by polishing or grinding, which is disposed on the inner surface of a cylindrical forming die and the fine ruggedness is arranged over the entire region or partial region in the axial direction of the endless belt. The optical characteristics, for example, glossiness, in the entire area or partial area in the axial direction of the endless belt is rendered by the fine ruggedness, and the anisotropy is provided in the axial direction and peripheral direction of the endless belt. In figure 4, 4a is an anisotropic region forming section and corresponds to the "region where the optical characteristic has the anisotropy in the axial direction and peripheral direction of the endless belt".;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI