| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elastic roller used for an image forming apparatus, forming a high-quality image and also contributing to improvement in the durability of the image forming apparatus, a fixing device for an image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus capable of forming a high-quality image and made excellent in durability. <P>SOLUTION: The elastic roller 1A is equipped with a shaft body 2 and an elastic layer 3 formed on the outer circumferential surface of the shaft body 2 and is disposed in the image forming apparatus, and the elastic roller 1A is characterized in that a hardness difference between the vicinity 3A of a center part and the vicinities 3B and 3C of both ends in the shaft direction of the elastic layer 3 is ≤2 in Asker C hardness. The fixing device for the image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus are equipped with the elastic roller 1A. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |
