Patents by Inventor Hisashi Nakajima

Hisashi Nakajima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220128917
    Abstract: A toner including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles include a fluorine-containing alumina, and the toner satisfies both Formula (1) below and Formula (2) below: 2.7?X1/X2?5.5 . . . Formula (1); and 2.1?X1?3.0 . . . Formula (2) where X1 denotes a concentration of aluminum in the toner and X2 denotes a concentration of fluorine in the toner, and the concentration of aluminum and the concentration of fluorine are determined through an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyo Shu, Hisashi Nakajima, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Katsunori Kurose
  • Patent number: 11287757
    Abstract: A toner including a strontium titanate powdery material as an external additive, the strontium titanate powdery material including Si-containing particles on a surface of the strontium titanate powdery material, the Si-containing particles having a number average circle equivalent diameter of 5 nm or more but 15 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakajima, Akihiro Kaneko, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Katsunori Kurose, Hyo Shu
  • Patent number: 11256188
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particles, each toner particle includes: a base particle including a binder resin; and external additive particles, wherein the external additive particles include particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater, a volume average particle diameter of the particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater is 80 nm or greater but 140 nm or less, and a ratio (circumscribed circle area/particle area) of a circumscribed circle area of the particle having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater to a particle area of the particle having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater is 1.60 or greater but 2.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kaneko, Kazumi Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Kohtaroh Ogino, Teruyuki Suzuki, Namie Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210072656
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particles, each toner particle includes: a base particle including a binder resin; and external additive particles, wherein the external additive particles include particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater, a volume average particle diameter of the particles each having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater is 80 nm or greater but 140 nm or less, and a ratio (circumscribed circle area/particle area) of a circumscribed circle area of the particle having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater to a particle area of the particle having an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or greater is 1.60 or greater but 2.60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Akihiro KANEKO, Kazumi SUZUKI, Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Yoshitaka YAMAUCHI, Kohtaroh OGINO, Teruyuki SUZUKI, Namie SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200363743
    Abstract: A toner including a strontium titanate powdery material as an external additive, the strontium titanate powdery material including Si-containing particles on a surface of the strontium titanate powdery material, the Si-containing particles having a number average circle equivalent diameter of 5 nm or more but 15 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Akihiro Kaneko, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Katsunori Kurose, Hyo Shu
  • Patent number: 10627732
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner includes at least two types of polyester resins and a release agent. When the toner is subjected to a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at a frequency of 6.28 rad/sec to obtain a temperature-dependent curve of loss tangent (tan ?), and the temperature-dependent curve is differentiated one time with temperature, a resulting curve has a maximum value of 0.07 or more and a minimum value of 0.025 or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 110° C. When the toner is subjected to a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), an endothermic amount measured in a first temperature rising in the DSC is 3.5 J/g or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 120° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohtaroh Ogino, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Akihiro Kaneko, Kazumi Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10599059
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises mother particles and an external additive covering the mother particles. The mother particles comprise a binder resin, and the external additive comprises inorganic particles. The inorganic particles comprise small-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 30 to 70 nm and large-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 150 to 200 nm and a circularity of 0.85 or more. The large-size inorganic particles are 20 to 70 in number per 100 ?m2 image area of the toner observed with a field-emission scanning electron microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Namie Suzuki, Kazumi Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Kohtaroh Ogino, Akihiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10578988
    Abstract: A toner, where a diffraction peak of the toner as measured by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy is present at least in a region where 2? is from 20° through 25°, and a difference between Tg1 and Tg2 is 10° C. or less, where Tg1 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 1 defined in the specification, and Tg2 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of the differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 2 defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Kazumi Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima, Saori Yamada, Yu Naito, Akihiro Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10459360
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a binder resin comprising a polyester resin, a release agent comprising an ester wax, and a wax dispersing agent comprising a hybrid resin. The hybrid resin comprises a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit. The condensation polymerization resin unit comprises a condensation polymerization product of an aromatic alcohol component and a carboxylic acid component, and the carboxylic acid component comprises an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 9 to 14 carbon atoms. The addition polymerization resin unit comprises an addition polymerization product of a styrene monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Namie Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima, Kazumi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20190278191
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises mother particles and an external additive covering the mother particles. The mother particles comprise a binder resin, and the external additive comprises inorganic particles. The inorganic particles comprise small-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 30 to 70 nm and large-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 150 to 200 nm and a circularity of 0.85 or more. The large-size inorganic particles are 20 to 70 in number per 100 ?m2 image area of the toner observed with a field-emission scanning electron microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Namie SUZUKI, Kazumi SUZUKI, Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Yoshitaka YAMAUCHI, Kohtaroh OGINO, Akihiro KANEKO
  • Patent number: 10274856
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, and a release agent, wherein a maximum value of loss tangent of the toner at 95° C. to 115° C. is 8 or greater, as a viscoelasticity of the toner is measured, where the loss tangent is represented by the following formula: Loss tangent (tan ?)=loss elastic modulus (G?)/storage elastic modulus (G?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakajima, Kazumi Suzuki, Masashi Nagayama, Saori Yamada, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Yu Naito, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 10254668
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography, the toner including an amorphous polyester resin, an addition polymerization-based resin, and wax that is ester wax or carnauba wax, wherein the toner satisfies relationships represented by Formula 1 and Formula 2 below, SPr>SPw>SPd??(Formula 1) |SPr?SPw|>|SPw?SPd|??(Formula 2) where SPr is a value of a solubility parameter of the amorphous polyester resin, SPw is a value of a solubility parameter of the wax, and SPd is a value of a solubility parameter of the addition polymerization-based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Hisashi Nakajima, Kazumi Suzuki, Namie Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10203620
    Abstract: Toner contains a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a tri- or higher metal salt, wherein the toner has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of from 7,000 to 10,000, a ratio of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 5 or less, and an acid value of from 6 mgKOH/g to 12 mgKOH/g, wherein the binder resin is a polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent is a monoester wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Naito, Kazumi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Masashi Nagayama, Hisashi Nakajima, Saori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180267418
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner includes at least two types of polyester resins and a release agent. When the toner is subjected to a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement at a frequency of 6.28 rad/sec to obtain a temperature-dependent curve of loss tangent (tan ?), and the temperature-dependent curve is differentiated one time with temperature, a resulting curve has a maximum value of 0.07 or more and a minimum value of 0.025 or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 110° C. When the toner is subjected to a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), an endothermic amount measured in a first temperature rising in the DSC is 3.5 J/g or less within a temperature range of from 85° C. to 120° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kohtaroh Ogino, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Akihiro Kaneko, Kazumi Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20180259864
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a binder resin comprising a polyester resin, a release agent comprising an ester wax, and a wax dispersing agent comprising a hybrid resin. The hybrid resin comprises a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit. The condensation polymerization resin unit comprises a condensation polymerization product of an aromatic alcohol component and a carboxylic acid component, and the carboxylic acid component comprises an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 9 to 14 carbon atoms. The addition polymerization resin unit comprises an addition polymerization product of a styrene monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Namie Suzuki, Hisashi Nakajima, Kazumi Suzuki, Yoshitaka Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20180113391
    Abstract: A toner, where a diffraction peak of the toner as measured by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy is present at least in a region where 2? is from 20° through 25°, and a difference between Tg1 and Tg2 is 10° C. or less, where Tg1 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 1 defined in the specification, and Tg2 is a glass transition temperature of the toner, as observed in a last heating step, when heating and cooling are performed on the toner by means of the differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) under the heating and cooling conditions 2 defined in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka YAMAUCHI, Kazumi SUZUKI, Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Saori YAMADA, Yu NAITO, Akihiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20180067409
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography, the toner including an amorphous polyester resin, an addition polymerization-based resin, and wax that is ester wax or carnauba wax, wherein the toner satisfies relationships represented by Formula 1 and Formula 2 below, SPr>SPw>SPd??(Formula 1) |SPr?SPw|>|SPw?SPd|??(Formula 2) where SPr is a value of a solubility parameter of the amorphous polyester resin, SPw is a value of a solubility parameter of the wax, and SPd is a value of a solubility parameter of the addition polymerization-based resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshitaka YAMAUCHI, Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Kazumi SUZUKI, Namie SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160327884
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, and a release agent, wherein a maximum value of loss tangent of the toner at 95° C. to 115° C. is 8 or greater, as a viscoelasticity of the toner is measured, where the loss tangent is represented by the following formula: Loss tangent (tan ?)=loss elastic modulus (G?)/storage elastic modulus (G?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Kazumi SUZUKI, Masashi NAGAYAMA, Saori YAMADA, Yoshitaka YAMAUCHI, Yu NAITO, Yoshitaka SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: D875841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakajima, Kouji Narita
  • Patent number: D875842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakajima, Kouji Narita