Patent ID: 7014899

Claim:
For use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, an elastically deformable fusing-station roller, said fusing-station roller comprising: a core member, said core member being rigid and having a cylindrical outer surface; a base cushion layer, said base cushion layer formed on said core member; a protective layer coated on said base cushion layer; wherein said base cushion layer is a thermally cured polyorganosiloxane material made at an elevated temperature by a condensation-polymerization of an uncured formulation, said base cushion layer having a thermal conductivity in a range of approximately between 0.2 BTU/hr/ft/° F.–0.5 BTU/hr/ft/° F.; wherein said uncured formulation includes microsphere particles, said microsphere particles having flexible walls; wherein said microsphere particles have a predetermined microsphere concentration in said uncured formulation; and wherein said uncured formulation further includes solid filler particles.