Patents by Inventor Koji Nishikawa

Koji Nishikawa 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).

  • Patent number: 10942463
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a polyester resin composition, wherein i) the polyester resin composition contains a specific aliphatic hydrocarbon and a polyester resin having at a terminal a structure derived from at least one of a specific alkyl monoalcohol and a specific alkyl monocarboxylic acid, and ii) the total content of the aliphatic hydrocarbon, the structure derived from the alkyl monoalcohol, and the structure derived from the alkyl monocarboxylic acid is 2.5 to 10.0% by mass, wherein, in the temperature-endothermic quantity curve of the polyester resin composition obtained by DSC, an endothermic peak is present in a specific temperature range and an endothermic quantity for this endothermic peak is 0.10 to 1.90 J/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshiba, Hiroki Akiyama, Koji Nishikawa, Shotaro Nomura, Katsuhisa Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20200411255
    Abstract: A movable contact includes a conductive member having an outer end having substantially a rectangular shape when viewed from above the conductive member. The conductive member includes a dome portion, a flange extending in a direction away from the dome portion, a connection portions provided at each of four corners of the rectangular shape, and a contact portion extending away from the flange. The connection portion, a first boundary portion where the connection portion is connected to the flange, and a second boundary portion where the connection portion is connected to the contact portion may constitute a drawn portion. Alternatively, the first and second boundary portions may be curved to be concave toward the dome portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: RYOSUKE NAKAO, KOJI NISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10845722
    Abstract: A toner comprising an external additive and a toner particle including a binder resin, a colorant and inorganic fine particles A, wherein the external additive contains an external additive B, a number average particle diameter of primary particles of the external additive B is 30 to 200 nm, an adhesion index of the external additive B to the toner particle is 0.00 to 3.00, a number average particle diameter of primary particles of the inorganic fine particles A is greater than that of the external additive B, and in SEM observations of the toner under specific condition, the number of particles (Na) of the external additive B in a 2 ?m square region of the toner surface and the number of particles (Nb) of the external additive B observed in a state of overlapping with the inorganic fine particles A in the region satisfy Nb/Na of 0.20 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Takaaki Furui, Tetsuya Kinumatsu
  • Patent number: 10747135
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains strontium titanate particle, and when in a projected image of the strontium titanate particle photographed using a scanning electron microscope, a standard deviation of a distance from a center of the projected image to an outline of the projected image is Ds, and a circle-equivalent diameter of the projected image is Da, a value CV calculated by Equation (1) is 0.07 or less, CV=Ds/(Da/2)??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Kazuo Terauchi, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Tanaka, Masami Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20200209771
    Abstract: A toner comprising an organosilicon polymer particle and a toner particle containing a binder resin and a wax, wherein the organosilicon polymer particle contains an organosilicon polymer, a part of silicon atoms in the organosilicon polymer has a T3 unit structure, a ratio of an area of peaks derived from silicon having the T3 unit structure relative to a total area of peaks derived from all silicon element contained in the organosilicon polymer particle is from 0.70 to 1.00 in 29Si-NMR measurement of the organosilicon polymer particle, a plurality of domains of the wax are present in a cross-section of the toner particle, the wax is an ester wax, the average long diameter of the domains of the ester wax is from 0.03 ?m to 2.00 ?m, and the SP value SPw of the wax is from 8.59 to 9.01.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui, Shotaro Nomura, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200209770
    Abstract: Toner comprising a toner particle containing binder resin and colorant, wherein fine particles A (organosilicon polymer particles containing an organosilicon polymer) and fine particles B are present at the toner particle surface, the organosilicon polymer has structure in which Si and O are alternately bonded to each other, portion of Si in the organosilicon polymer has R1—SiO3/2 structure, and content of the fine particles A, proportion for area of peak originating with silicon having the structure, volume resistivity of the fine particles B, total coverage ratio of the toner particle surface by the fine particles A embedded in the toner particle (A1) and the fine particles A not embedded in the toner particle (A2), percentage for area occupied by the fine particles A2, content of the fine particles B in the toner, and percentage for area occupied by the fine particles B embedded in the toner particle are prescribed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Yojiro Hotta, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takaaki Furui, Shotaro Nomura, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200209768
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and fine particles A at the surface of the toner particle, wherein the fine particles A are organosilicon polymer fine particles, the organosilicon polymer fine particles have a number-average primary particle diameter of 30 nm to 500 nm, the organosilicon polymer fine particles have an attachment index for a polycarbonate film of not more than 3.5, the organosilicon polymer fine particles penetrate into the toner particle in a penetration depth b (nm), and protrude from the toner particle in a protrusion height c (nm), and b and c satisfy 0.05?b/(b+c)?0.40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Takaaki Furui, Yojiro Hotta, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Koji Nishikawa, Shotaro Nomura, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200209769
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein the external additive comprises an external additive A and B; the external additive A has a number-average primary particle diameter of 35 to 300 nm, a dielectric constant ?ra of not more than 3.50, and a shape factor SF-1 of not more than 114, and is an organosilicon polymer particle having a particular T3 unit structure; a proportion for an area of a peak originating from silicon having the T3 unit structure with reference to that of all silicon elements is 0.50 to 1.00; the external additive B has a number-average primary particle diameter of from 5 nm to 25 nm and a dielectric constant ?rb that satisfies formula (A): 0.50??rb??ra (A); and a coverage ratio by the external additive B for the toner particle surface is 50% to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shotaro Nomura, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20200183296
    Abstract: A toner comprising an external additive and a toner particle including a binder resin, a colorant and inorganic fine particles A, wherein the external additive contains an external additive B, a number average particle diameter of primary particles of the external additive B is 30 to 200 nm, an adhesion index of the external additive B to the toner particle is 0.00 to 3.00, a number average particle diameter of primary particles of the inorganic fine particles A is greater than that of the external additive B, and in SEM observations of the toner under specific condition, the number of particles (Na) of the external additive B in a 2 ?m square region of the toner surface and the number of particles (Nb) of the external additive B observed in a state of overlapping with the inorganic fine particles A in the region satisfy Nb/Na of 0.20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Takaaki Furui, Tetsuya Kinumatsu
  • Publication number: 20200183293
    Abstract: A toner including: a toner particle that includes a binder resin and a crystalline material, wherein the binder resin includes a vinyl resin having an ether structure, and where intensities of secondary ion mass/secondary ion charge number (m/z) of 59, 44, and 135 are denoted by A (ppm), B (ppm), and C (ppm), respectively, in a measurement of the toner by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, the intensities at 100 nm from the surface of the toner satisfy the relationships of the following formulas (1) and (2): C/(A+B)?1.00??(1) (A+B)?2000??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Kosuke Fukudome, Takaaki Furui, Koji Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200183294
    Abstract: A toner including: a toner particle that includes a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein a toner hardness A N/m and a toner hardness B N/m satisfy B?600 and B/A?1.30, in the formulas, the toner hardness A is an average value of a slope in a displacement region of from 0.00 ?m to 0.20 ?m when measuring the toner under a condition of a load application speed of 0.83 ?N/sec, and the toner hardness B is an average value of a slope in a displacement region of from 0.00 ?m to 0.20 ?m when measuring the toner under a condition of a load application speed of 2.50 ?N/sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kosuke Fukudome, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui
  • Patent number: 10615508
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition capable of providing a molded article that is excellent in its capability of shielding millimeter waves. A thermoplastic resin composition for a molded article having a capability of shielding millimeter waves, containing (A) a thermoplastic resin and (B) carbon long fibers having a fiber length of from 3 to 30 mm in an amount of from 0.5 to 5% by mass. A molded article obtained from the composition is excellent in its capability of shielding millimeter waves and can be used as a protective member for a transmitting and receiving antenna of a millimeter wave radar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: DAICEL POLYMER LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Koji Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200081361
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a polyester resin composition, wherein i) the polyester resin composition contains a specific aliphatic hydrocarbon and a polyester resin having at a terminal a structure derived from at least one of a specific alkyl monoalcohol and a specific alkyl monocarboxylic acid, and ii) the total content of the aliphatic hydrocarbon, the structure derived from the alkyl monoalcohol, and the structure derived from the alkyl monocarboxylic acid is 2.5 to 10.0% by mass, wherein, in the temperature-endothermic quantity curve of the polyester resin composition obtained by DSC, an endothermic peak is present in a specific temperature range and an endothermic quantity for this endothermic peak is 0.10 to 1.90 J/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshiba, Hiroki Akiyama, Koji Nishikawa, Shotaro Nomura, Katsuhisa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10579489
    Abstract: In a program execution device (100X), a memory (110) stores first information (101X) specifying one or more programs, and second information (102X) specifying some programs including at least one of programs to be executed by an other program execution device (100Y), out of the programs specified by the first information (101X) and the programs to be executed by the other program execution device (100Y). When an error in the other program execution device (100Y) is not detected by an error processing unit (123), an instruction processing unit (120) executes the programs specified by the first information (101X). When the error in the other program execution device (100Y) is detected by the error processing unit (123), the instruction processing unit (120) executes the programs specified by the second information (102X).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Takahiro Ueno, Shigeru Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10488777
    Abstract: A toner contains toner particles, titanate fine particles having a Group II element, and hydrotalcite compound fine particles as an external additive and satisfying 10?Lt?80 and 100?Lh?Weight average particle diameter (D4) of toner particles×0.50, when the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the titanate fine particles is defined as Lt (nm) and the number average particle diameter (D1) of primary particles of the hydrotalcite compound fine particles is defined as Lh (nm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Terauchi, Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Masami Fujimoto, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190271928
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains strontium titanate particle, and when in a projected image of the strontium titanate particle photographed using a scanning electron microscope, a standard deviation of a distance from a center of the projected image to an outline of the projected image is Ds, and a circle-equivalent diameter of the projected image is Da, a value CV calculated by Equation (1) is 0.07 or less, CV=Ds/(Da/2)??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Kazuo Terauchi, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Tanaka, Masami Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10303075
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an inorganic fine particle A and a silica fine particle; in a surface of the toner observed using a scanning electron microscope, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the silica fine particle is from 5 nm to 50 nm, a number-average particle diameter of primary particle of the inorganic fine particle A is at least 10 nm and less than 60 nm, a coverage ratio X1 of the toner surface covered by the silica fine particle is from 60 area % to 95 area %, the inorganic fine particle A is a fine particle of a titanate having a Group 2 element, and a coverage ratio X2 of the toner surface covered by the inorganic fine particle A is from 5 area % to 40 area %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Tanaka, Yojiro Hotta, Kazuo Terauchi, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Kazuyuki Sato, Yu Yoshida, Yusuke Kosaki, Masami Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10295921
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a resin and a colorant, wherein, with respect to a temperature-storage elastic modulus curve obtained by powder dynamic viscoelastic measurement on the toner, (I) the relative minimum values for the variation in the storage elastic modulus E? with respect to temperature T in the temperature range of at least 30° C. and not more than 180° C. have a relative minimum value of equal to or less than ?1.00×107 and the relative minimum value on the lowest temperature side is equal to or less than ?1.00×108; (II) the storage elastic modulus E? (50) of the toner at 50° C. is at least 1.00×109 and not more than 9.00×109; and (III) for a storage elastic modulus E? (120) of the toner at 120° C., E? (50) and E? (120) satisfy 1.50?[E? (50)]/[E? (120)]?3.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Ohmori, Shuhei Moribe, Koji Nishikawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Daisuke Yoshiba, Hiroyuki Tomono, Shotaro Nomura, Sho Kimura, Tatsuya Saeki, Katsuhisa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10295920
    Abstract: Provided is toner that contains a toner particle, and an external additive containing a strontium titanate particle, wherein the toner has an average circularity of at least 0.935 and not more than 0.995, the strontium titanate particle has a number-average primary particle diameter of at least 10 nm and not more than 60 nm, the strontium titanate particle has a peak in the range of 39.700°±0.150° and a peak in the range of 46.200°±0.150° in a CuK? x-ray diffraction spectrum obtained in the 2? range of at least 10° and not more than 90° where ? is the Bragg angle, and the ratio of the area Sb of the peak at 46.200°±0.150° to the area Sa of the peak at 39.700°±0.150° is at least 1.80 and not more than 2.30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Yojiro Hotta, Kazuo Terauchi, Takaaki Furui, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Tanaka, Kazuyuki Sato, Yu Yoshida, Yusuke Kosaki, Masami Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 10289016
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner has a softening point of at least 100° C. and not more than 150° C., and when Tgt represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of the toner during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, Tgf represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of the binder resin during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, and Tgk represents a glass transition temperature (° C.) of a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter of the binder resin during a second temperature rise as measured with a DSC, the toner satisfies Tgt>Tgf (1), Tgt>Tgk (2), and 35° C.?Tgf?70° C. (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosuke Fukudome, Hiroyuki Tomono, Shuhei Moribe, Koji Nishikawa, Daisuke Yoshiba, Shotaro Nomura, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Sho Kimura, Tatsuya Saeki, Katsuhisa Yamazaki