Developing Composition Or Product Patents (Class 430/105)
  • Publication number: 20130260298
    Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner is obtained by dispersing or emulsifying an oil phase in an aqueous solvent containing an organic sulfonic acid salt and an inorganic salt, the oil phase including the binder resin and the colorant dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent, wherein the binder resin comprises a crystalline resin in an amount of 50% by mass or more relative to the binder resin, and wherein the toner has an average circularity of 0.980 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Suzuka AMEMORI, Masahide YAMADA, Shinya NAKAYAMA, Yukiko NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20130260299
    Abstract: An image forming method including steps of forming a latent electrostatic image on an image bearing member, developing the latent electrostatic image with a development agent containing toner to obtain a toner image; transferring the toner image onto a transfer medium; fixing the toner image thereon; wherein the fixing is executed by a fixing device containing a heating roller; a fixing roller; a toner heating medium and the fixing roller; and a pressure roller wherein the toner contains a toner binder containing a crystalline resin containing a polyester resin A; a non-crystalline resin containing a non-crystalline resin B and a non-crystalline resin C, and a complex resin, wherein the toner has a main peak in a range of from 1,000 to 10,000 in the molecule weight distribution as measured for a component soluble in tetrahydrofuran by gel permeation chromatography with a half value width of 15,000 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Hisashi NAKAJIMA, Masashi Nagayama, Saori Yamada, Mariko Takii
  • Publication number: 20130260300
    Abstract: In accordance with the embodiment, a developer includes a toner, wherein the toner includes a binder resin, a coloring material, a crystalline polyester resin having a peak DSC melting point of higher than 90 degree Celsius but lower than 110 degree Celsius, a toner core particle including an ester wax having a liner alky having 15-48 carbons, containing an ester compound of the carbon number of which represents the maximum strength in mass spectrometer content of more than 20 weight percent but smaller than 45 percent of the total weight of all of the ester wax and containing a silica particle having a volume average particle size of smaller than 85 nm combined by a sol-gel method, wherein the toner with the silica particle content of 0.2-2.0 weight percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Satoshi Araki
  • Publication number: 20130260297
    Abstract: A toner including a colorant, a resin, and a volatile organic compound in an amount from 1 to 200 ?g/g is provided. The toner has a softening index Ct within a range from 70 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Hideki SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 8546053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a toner, the method including: preparing a wax dispersion liquid by cooling a wax solution, in which a wax is heated and dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent, in a container so that a standard deviation ? of a temperature distribution between a center portion of the container and an inner wall of the container is 0.5 or less and the cooling rate is 2.0° C./min or more, to precipitate wax particles in the wax solution; forming toner base precursor particles by adding an aqueous phase containing resin fine particles into an oil phase containing at least the wax dispersion liquid, a colorant and a binder resin and mixing the oil phase and the aqueous phase with each other; and preparing toner base particles by removing the solvent from the toner base precursor particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Junichi Awamura, Tomomi Suzuki, Toshihiko Karato
  • Publication number: 20130252158
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner, including: a binder resin; a colorant; and an organically-modified layered inorganic mineral, wherein the binder resin contains 50% by mass or more of a crystalline resin relative to the binder resin, and the crystalline resin contains a resin having a sulfonic acid group, and wherein an amount of the sulfonic acid group is 0.1% by mass to 2.0% by mass relative to the resin having the sulfonic acid group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Masahide YAMADA, Shinya NAKAYAMA, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Hideyuki SANTO, Shingo SAKASHITA, Yukiko NAKAJIMA, Suzuka AMEMORI, Akiyoshi SABU
  • Publication number: 20130252156
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a binder resin having a carboxyl group, in which the carboxyl group in the binder resin present on the surfaces of the toner particles forms an alkaline earth metal salt, and an amount of the alkaline earth metal which is detected through ion chromatography of the toner particles is in a range of from 1.00×10?10 mol/g to 0.90×10?6 mol/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Akira MATSUMOTO, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Masanobu NINOMIYA, Yusuke IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20130252157
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a colorant, a binder resin, and a release agent and an external additive, in which the external additive contains inorganic particles which include saturated hydrocarbons having from 9 to 35 carbon atoms on the surfaces thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji KAWAKAMI, Yoshifumi IIDA, Shintaro ANNO, Masahiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20130252155
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer including a first toner that contains a binder resin and a brilliant pigment, a second toner that contains a binder resin without a brilliant pigment, and a carrier, wherein the developer satisfies the following formulae, 5 ?m?A?30 ?m??(1): 1 ?m?B?15 ?m??(2): 3.0?C/A?5.0??(3): 5.0?C/B?20.0??(4): wherein A represents a volume average particle size of the first toner, B represents a volume average particle size of the second toner, and C represents a volume average particle size of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGITATE, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Shotaro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8541153
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image contains at least one of an oxidation polymerizable monomer and a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated group, and an oxidation polymerization catalyst in a form of a composite with inorganic particles, wherein a temperature T(10 Mpa) and a temperature T(1 Mpa) satisfies the following expression (1): 20° C.?T(1 MPa)?T(10 MPa)??(1) wherein, the temperature T(10 Mpa) is a temperature at which a viscosity of the toner under a pressure of 10 Mpa applied with a flow tester becomes 104 Pa·s, and the temperature T(1 Mpa) is a temperature at which a viscosity of the toner under a pressure of 1 Mpa applied with a flow tester becomes 104 Pa·s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Matsumura, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Hideo Maehata, Yuki Sasaki, Fumiaki Mera
  • Publication number: 20130244155
    Abstract: A toner including: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the external additive comprises non-spherical particles and spherical particles, wherein the non-spherical particles are each a secondary particle in which spherical primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the non-spherical particles and the spherical particles in the external additive satisfy a relationship expressed by the following formula (1): 3Ca(%)<Cb(%)??Formula (1) where Ca is greater than 10% but smaller than 20% and Cb is greater than 40% but smaller than 70%, and Ca and Cb are values given by: Ca = ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( % ? ? by ? ? mass ) / 100 ) × ( a ? ? projected ? ? area ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( cm 2 ? / ? g ) ) ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ?
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Syouko Satoh, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Satoshi Kojima, Osamu Uchinokura, Junichi Awamura, Daisuke Ito, Satoshi Ogawa, Kiwako Hirohara, Takahiro Honda, Daisuke Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130244157
    Abstract: A toner, including: a binder resin; releasing agent-encapsulating capsules; and a colorant, wherein the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules each include: a capsule formed of a resin (I) which is different from the binder resin; and a releasing agent (RA) which is encapsulated in the capsule, and the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in the binder resin, and wherein 50% to 100% of the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in a region from a surface of the toner to a depth of 0.10 times a volume-average particle diameter of the toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Ryota INOUE, Hiroaki Katoh, Masahiro Seki, Shun Saito, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Kazuoki Fuwa, Satoshi Ogawa, Tomohiro Fukao, Takayuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130244158
    Abstract: A toner set, including: a transparent toner including a binder resin a, a releasing agent a and no colorant; and one or more color toners, each including a binder resin b, a colorant b and a releasing agent b, wherein the binder resin a includes a non-crystalline resin ? and a crystalline resin ?, the binder resin b includes a non-crystalline resin ? and a crystalline resin ?, the releasing agent a has an average particle diameter as a long diameter of 0.2 ?m to 2.0 ?m, and there is a relationship of 1<A/B<1.5, where A is an area of the releasing agent a in a transparent toner cross-section from a surface thereof to a ?-depth of a volume-average particle diameter, and B is an area of the releasing agent b in a color-toner cross-section from a surface thereof to a ?-depth of a volume-average particle diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Junichi AWAMURA, Teruki Kusahara, Satoshi Ogawa, Daisuke Ito, Daisuke Inoue, Osamu Uchinokura, Satoshi Kojima, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Mamoru Hozumi, Syouko Satoh
  • Publication number: 20130244154
    Abstract: Toner containing a binder resin that contains at least one kind of resin having a crystalline polyester unit as its main component and a releasing agent containing a straight-chain mono ester having 48 or more carbon atoms accounting for 40% by weight or more of the releasing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Shinya NAKAYAMA, Hideyuki SANTO, Suzuka AMEMORI, Shingo SAKASHITA, Masahide YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20130244153
    Abstract: A development agent containing toner that contains a binder resin having a crystalline resin that has a urethane and/or urea bond in its main chain, a coloring agent, and an organically modified inorganic laminate compound in which organic ions are at least partially substituted for ions present between layers of the organically modified inorganic laminate compound, and toner carrier that contains a core material whose surface is coated with a coating layer having a condensed compound of a melamine resin and/or a guanamine resin and an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Shinya NAKAYAMA, Atsushi Yamamoto, Yukiko Nakajima, Masahide Yamada, Hideyuki Santo, Suzuka Amemori
  • Publication number: 20130244156
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the toner includes the inorganic fine particles as an external additive on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the toner base particles have a BET specific surface area of 2.5 m2/g to 5.0 m2/g, and wherein the inorganic fine particles comprise inorganic fine particles (A) which are each a secondary particle where a plurality of primary particles are coalesced together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Satoshi KOJIMA, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Syouko Satoh, Osamu Uchinokura, Junichi Awamura, Satoshi Ogawa, Takahiro Honda, Daisuke Ito, Teruki Kusahara, Masaki Watanabe, Daisuke Inoue, Kiwako Hirohara
  • Publication number: 20130244151
    Abstract: A toner comprising a branched polyester suitable for use in solvent-free emulsification, the branched polyester having a first original weight average molecular weight before undergoing solvent-free emulsification and a second weight average molecular weight after undergoing solvent-free emulsification, wherein the branched polyester has a structure that limits degradation of the polyester during solvent-free emulsification to less than about 20 percent of the first original weight average molecular weight, wherein the branched polyester comprises a compound of the formula described; an optional wax, and an optional colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Allan K. Chen, Santiago Faucher, Guerino G. Sacripante, Shigang S. Qiu
  • Publication number: 20130244152
    Abstract: A transparent toner includes toner particles having a volume average particle diameter in the range of 18 ?m to 28 ?m, and satisfying formulae (1) and (2): 0.1?Ntb/Nta×100?2.5??(1) 0?Ntc/Nta×100?1.0??(2) Nta is the number of particles under the measurement conditions satisfying 0.5 ?m?circle-equivalent diameter?200 ?m, and 0.40?circularity?1.00; Ntb is the number of particles under the measurement conditions satisfying 0.5×Dta (?m)?circle-equivalent diameter?2.5×Dta (?m), and 0.60?circularity?0.90; and Ntc is the number of particles under the measurement conditions satisfying 2.5×Dta (?m)?circle-equivalent diameter?200 ?m, and 0.40?circularity?1.00; Dta is the average circle-equivalent diameter under the measurement conditions satisfying 0.5 ?m?circle-equivalent diameter?200 ?m, and 0.40?circularity?1.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20130224640
    Abstract: A transparent toner for developing an electrostatic latent image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing cerium oxide, in which the content of cerium in all toner particles is in the range of 0.05% by weight to 0.20% by weight, and the cerium oxide contains neodymium and the content of neodymium in all toner particles is in the range of 0.001% by weight to 0.015% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Masanobu NINOMIYA, Tetsuya TAGUCHI, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Koji SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20130224641
    Abstract: A nonmagnetic single-component developer uses an external additive which contains ? percent by weight of wet silica having an average particle size of 80-150 nm and ? percent by weight of burning silica having an average particle size of 8-20 nm. ?/? is 2-5, and ?+? is 2-10 percent by weight. After a silica separation test is conducted, the residual ratio X is 50-95 percent by weight, the percentage of the ratio of the residual amount of the silica a/b is in the rage of (X2/(1+?/?)/100)/(X?X2/(1+?/?)/100)×100 to (X2/(1+?/?)/100×((1?X/100)+1))/(X?X2/(1+?/?)/100×((1?X/100)+1))×100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Publication number: 20130216945
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pigment dispersion liquid which has excellent pigment dispersion stability and high productivity even in the case of using a fine pigment and having high pigment concentration; a method for producing the pigment dispersion liquid; a color resin composition which has excellent pigment dispersion stability, causes no clogging problem, has excellent adhesion, and is able to form color layers with high pigment concentration, with accuracy; and a color filter comprising the resin composition. Disclosed is a method for producing a pigment dispersion liquid, comprising the step of dispersing a pigment by mixing at least a pigment (A), a polymer (B) having tertiary or lower amines, an amine-reactive low molecular compound (C), and a dispersion medium (D), and dispersing the pigment (A) while reacting the polymer (B) with the low molecular compound (C), and a pigment dispersion liquid produced by the production method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DNP FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayo Konno, Yukie Kawazu, Yumi Saiki, Shoichi Komatsu, Syuichi Mitsuhashi, Shunsuke Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20130216943
    Abstract: A toner includes a resin having an unsaturated double bond, a thiol compound having a bi- or more-functional thiol group, and a polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji HORIBA, Takahiro ISHIZUKA, Yoshihiro INABA, Akira IMAI, Ryosaku IGARASHI, Takako KOBAYASHI, Daisuke YOSHINO, Masahiro OKI
  • Publication number: 20130216944
    Abstract: A toner contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner contains toner particles, and wherein a proportion of the toner particles containing one or more voids having diameters D1 of larger than 0.0 ?m but 0.5 ?m or smaller is more than 5.0% to 60%, and a proportion of the toner particles containing one or more voids having diameters D2 of 1.0 ?m or larger is 10% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Masana Shiba, Ryuta Chiba, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8507164
    Abstract: The invention provides a yellow toner including toner particles comprising colorants and a binder resin, the colorants including at least a C. I. Pigment yellow 180 and a carmine-based pigment, a weight ratio of the C. I. Pigment yellow 180 to the carmine-based pigment being from about 99:1 to about 10,000:1, the binder resin being a polyester resin comprising a first repeating unit derived from a first diol compound, and the first diol compound being a bisphenol A ethylene oxide represented by the following formula (1): wherein in formula (1), m and n each independently represent an integer of from 2 to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke Iwazaki, Satoshi Yoshida, Shinya Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20130202996
    Abstract: The toner includes a pigment; and a block copolymer having a polyester block A including a residual group of a hydroxycarboxylic acid, and a polyester block B including an anionic group. When cross-section of the block copolymer is observed by a tapping mode atomic force microscope to obtain a phase image of the cross-section, the polyester block B, which has relatively large phase delay, is dispersed as domains having an average size of from 20 nm to 100 nm in a domain of the polyester block A, which has relatively small phase delay. The block copolymer has a first glass transition temperature of from ?20° C. to 20° C., and a second glass transition temperature of from 35° C. to 65° C. when the first and second glass transition temperatures are determined from a thermogram obtained by subjecting the block copolymer to differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at a temperature rising speed of 5° C./min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Masahide Yamada, Yoshihiro Moriya, Taichi Nemoto, Yukiko Nakajima, Keiji Makabe, Daiki Yamashita, Suzuka Amemori, Akiyoshi Sabu
  • Publication number: 20130196261
    Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains: toner base particles each containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive containing inorganic particles and fatty acid metal salt particles, wherein the inorganic particles contain at least hydrophobic silica particles, wherein a liberation ratio Ya of the hydrophobic silica particles from the toner is 1% by mass to 20% by mass, and wherein a libration ratio Yb of the fatty acid metal salt particles from the toner is 30% by mass to 90% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Osamu UCHINOKURA, Tomoyuki Satoh, Takahiro Honda, Daisuke Inoue, Mamoru Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20130196259
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles, and an external additive. The toner particles are (1) prepared by forming aggregated particles by aggregating resin particles in a raw material dispersion in which the resin particles are dispersed, and causing the aggregated particles to coalesce by heating an aggregated particle dispersion in which the aggregated particles are dispersed so as to form the toner particles, or (2) obtained by kneading and pulverizing a material including a binder resin and a release agent, and the external additive is silica particles having an average diameter in the range of 100 nm to 500 nm, an average circularity in the range of 0.5 to 0.85, and an average of a ratio of a circle-equivalent diameter Da obtained by plane image analysis to a maximum height H obtained by 3-D image analysis of greater than 1.5 and less than 1.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi IIDA, Hideaki YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130196258
    Abstract: A toner includes a binder resin including an amorphous polyester resin (A), a crystalline polyester resin (B), and a polyurethane thermoplastic elastomer (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro INABA, Daisuke YOSHINO, Akira IMAI, Takako KOBAYASHI, Koji HORIBA, Masahiro OKI, Ryosaku IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20130196260
    Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin containing a non-crystalline resin and a crystalline resin; a colorant; and, a releasing agent, wherein the releasing agent has a melting point of 55° C. to 80° C., and wherein the toner satisfies the following Expressions 1 and 2: (Expression 1): 20,000 Pa·s?G1?50,000 Pa·s; and (Expression 2): (G4/G2)/(G3/G1) 1.00, where G1 is a storage modulus, G2 is a loss modulus, G3 is a storage modulus and G4 is a loss modulus, and the storage modulus G1 and the loss modulus G2 are measured at 80° C. when the toner is heated from 70° C. to 150° C. and the storage modulus G3 and the loss modulus G4 are measured at 80° C. when the toner heated to 150° C. is cooled to 70° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Ryuuta YOSHIDA, Takahiro HONDA, Junichi AWAMURA, Osamu UCHINOKURA, Masaki WATANABE, Daisuke INOUE, Tomoki MURAYAMA, Mamoru HOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20130189611
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition containing a pyrylium-based squarylium compound represented by the following Formula (I) and a resin, wherein in Formula (I), each of R1, R2, R3, and R4 independently represents an alkyl group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minquan TIAN, Takahiro ISHIZUKA, Shinji HASEGAWA, Makoto FURUKI
  • Publication number: 20130171550
    Abstract: To provide a toner including at least a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the binder resin has two glass transition temperatures Tg1 and Tg2 in a differential scanning calorimetry at a heating speed of 5° C./min, the glass transition temperature Tg1 is ?20° C. to 20° C., and the glass transition temperature Tg2 is 35° C. to 65° C., wherein the binder resin comprises a polyester skeleton and a ring-containing skeleton molecule at ends thereof, and wherein the binder resin is obtained by block copolymerization of: a polyester skeleton A which includes a structural unit obtained by dehydration condensation of a hydroxycarboxylic acid in a repeating structure; and a skeleton B which does not include a structural unit obtained by dehydration condensation of a hydroxycarboxylic acid in a repeating structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Suzuka Amemori, Masahide Yamada, Yoshihiro Moriya, Taichi Nemoto, Yukiko Nakajima, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Daiki Yamashita, Keiji Makabe, Akiyoshi Sabu
  • Publication number: 20130164665
    Abstract: A toner including a mother particle and an external additive covering a surface of the mother particle is provided. The mother particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent. The external additive includes a particulate cellulose having a number average particle diameter within a range of 15 to 105 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Masayuki ISHII, Toyoshi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20130164668
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner that includes a mixture of a bio-based amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guerino G. Sacripante, Ke Zhou, Rosa M. Duque, Sonja Hadzidedic, Biritawit Asfaw
  • Publication number: 20130164666
    Abstract: To provide a toner having a superior developing performance while preventing any fixing assembly from being contaminated, the toner has toner particles which have toner base particles containing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, and an inorganic fine powder, wherein the wax has a 0.2% by mass heating loss temperature of 200° C. or more and a 1.0% by mass heating loss temperature of 250° C. or more and has a melt viscosity at 120° C. of from 3.0 mPa·s to 15.0 mPa·s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Abe, Shinya Yachi, Kazumi Yoshizaki, Kenichi Nakayama, Shiro Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20130164664
    Abstract: The present teachings describe an apparatus for mixing developer. The apparatus includes a first loader for dispensing a predetermined amount of toner particles into a container and a second loader for dispensing a predetermined amount and carrier particles in the container. A sealer seals the container. An acoustic mixer is provided for mixing the container, toner particles and carrier particles at a resonant frequency. A method of mixing developer is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Majid Kamel, Suxia Yang, Richard P.N. Veregin, Michael S. Hawkins, Cuong Vong, Santiago Faucher
  • Publication number: 20130157188
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner composition comprising: (a) a resin; and (b) a colorant which comprises: (1) Pigment Red 269; (2) Pigment Red 185; and (3) Pigment Red 122.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Grazyna E. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz, Maura A. Sweeney, Mark E. Mang, Kirk L. Stamp, Robert D. Bayley
  • Publication number: 20130157185
    Abstract: A toner includes a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a releasing agent containing two or more kinds of alkyl monoester compounds having a different number of carbon atoms in a range of from 30 to 50 carbon atoms. The toner has a crystallinity of 10% or more as measured by x-ray diffraction and/or the binder resin is a crystalline resin in an amount of 50% by weight or more of the binder resin. The two or more kinds of alkyl monoester compounds include a component A accounting for the largest amount ranging from 30% by weight to less than 50% by weight of the releasing agent and a component B accounting for the second largest amount ranging from 10% by weight to less than 50% by weight of the releasing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Shingo SAKASHITA, Hiroshi Yamashita, Masahide Yamada, Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Yukiko Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20130157184
    Abstract: To provide a toner, including at least: a non-crystalline polyester resin; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature in a first heating Tg1st and a glass transition temperature in a second heating Tg2nd, and a difference between Tg1st and Tg2nd (Tg1st?Tg2nd) is 10° C. or greater, and wherein the crystalline polyester resin is a modified crystalline polyester resin having a urethane skeleton or a urea skeleton, or both thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Masahide Yamada, Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Shingo Sakashita
  • Publication number: 20130157183
    Abstract: A developer, including a toner including a binder resin comprising a crystalline resin; and a colorant, and a resin carrier comprising a resin; a magnetic particulate material having a magnetic anisotropy, dispersed in the resin, and having a saturated magnetization of from 16 to 30 emu/g, a coercive force of from 15 to 40 kA/m and an average particle diameter not less than 15 ?m and less than 100 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Hideyuki Santo, Masahide Yamada, Kazumi Suzuki, Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tatsuya Morita, Shingo Sakashita, Yukiko Nakajima, Keiji Makabe, Daiki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130143151
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: bright pigment particles; and a binder resin, and the electrostatic charge image developing toner has a main peak and at least one peak or shoulder that is higher in molecular weight than the main peak in a molecular weight distribution of a tetrahydrofuran-soluble component that is obtained through gel permeation chromatography measurement, and satisfies the following formula: 2?A/B?100, wherein A is reflectance at an acceptance angle of +30° that is measured when a solid image is formed using an electrostatic charge image developing toner and the image is irradiated with incident light at an incidence angle of ?45° by the use of a variable-angle photometer, and B is reflectance at an acceptance angle of ?30° that is measured when the image is irradiated with incident light at an incidence angle of ?45° by the use of a variable-angle photometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya NAKASHIMA, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Atsushi SUGITATE, Shotaro TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20130137028
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing toner carrier formed of a core and a cover thereon, including the steps of: coating the core with a liquid cover containing a solvent and a material for forming the cover on the core in a processing tank; heating the core and the cover by first microwave radiation to volatilize the solvent from the cover; and removing the solvent volatilized in the step of heating from the processing tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Matsuda, Kousuke Suzuki, Yuuki Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20130137029
    Abstract: Disclosed are a toner for electrostatic image development which is able to realize enough charge stability over a long period of time as deterioration of a toner due to mechanical stress is prevented in a developing unit, and to prevent generation of filming, and an image forming method using the same. The toner for electrostatic image development contains toner particles and an external additive. The external additive includes silica fine particles whose surface is covered with a number of projections, and a number average particle diameter of the silica fine particles is 80 to 200 nm. The external additive may include small-diameter fine particles for external additive having a number average particle diameter of 5 to 45 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Futoshi KADONOME, Yasuhiko MURAMATSU, Saburou HIRAOKA
  • Publication number: 20130137031
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner produced by mixing a dispersion of colorant particles containing a colorant and a dispersion of release agent particles containing a release agent and having a volume average particle diameter smaller than that of the colorant particles, aggregating the colorant particles and the release agent particles in the dispersion to produce first aggregates, mixing a dispersion of resin particles containing a binder resin and having a volume average particle diameter smaller than that of the release agent particles in the dispersion containing the first aggregates, and aggregating the first aggregates and the resin particles in the dispersion of the first aggregates and the resin particles to coat the first aggregates with the resin particles, producing second aggregates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
  • Publication number: 20130122411
    Abstract: A developer includes a toner containing at least a binder resin, wherein the toner has a molecular weight distribution Mz/Mw of 2.0 or smaller and a phase angle of viscoelasticity of 65° or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Oki Data Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130122408
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer, and a surface protective layer that contains fluororesin particles and a fluorinated alkyl group-containing copolymer; a charging unit that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an electrostatic latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit that accommodates a developer, and develops the electrostatic latent image with the developer to form a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image to a recording medium; and a cleaning unit that removes the remained developer, wherein when the electrophotographic photoreceptor is rotated 50,000 times by repeating the formation of an image having image sections and non-image sections and having an image density of 7%, and then the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the zinc coating ratio is in the range of from 50% to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke HARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130122412
    Abstract: An erasable electrophotographic toner includes a binder resin, a near-infrared absorbing material, a decolorizing agent and an organic white pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicants: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., CASIO ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CASIO ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING CO., L, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130115548
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes toner compositions comprising an alkyl surface-treated silica, which toners exhibit improved tribo-charging, second transfer efficiency and IQ without impacting color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suxia Yang, Richard PN Veregin, Magid Kamel, Cuong Vong, Kimberly Nosella, Eric Rotberg
  • Publication number: 20130115550
    Abstract: A toner including a core particle and projections at a surface of the core particle is provided. The core particle includes a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin includes a crystalline resin as a major component. Each of the projections consists of a fine resin particle. An average length of long sides of the projections is not less than 0.15 ?m and less than 0.5 ?m. A standard deviation of lengths of the long sides of the projections is 0.2 or less. A surface coverage of the toner with the projections is within a range of 30 to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Suzuka Amemori, Atsushi Yamamoto, Masahide Yamada, Shinya Nakayama, Hideyuki Santo, Daiki Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130115551
    Abstract: The invention relates to a toner for developing a toner image, the toner comprising a binder resin, a colorant, a first wax and a compatibilizer. The wax is finely dispersed within the toner. The compatibilizer has a melting transition, wherein the lower temperature limit of the melting transition is between 110° C. and 140° C. at the time of temperature rise in the DSC curve measured using a differential scanning calorimeter. The invention further relates to a printing system for applying the toner according to the present invention on an image receiving medium. The invention further relates to a method for preparing the toner according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: OCE TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: OCE TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
  • Publication number: 20130115549
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes toner compositions containing an additive package including one or more additives that exhibit low dielectric loss, which toners exhibit improved tribo charging, 2nd transfer efficiency and IQ without affecting color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suxia Yang, Richard P.N. Veregin, Magid Kamel, Cuong Vong, Kimberly Nosella, Eric Rotberg