Binary Ferric Or Ferrous Oxide Containing Magnetic Component Patents (Class 430/106.2)
  • Patent number: 11476019
    Abstract: The present application relates to a composition, a 3D printing method using the same, and a three-dimensional shape comprising the same, and provides a composition capable of embodying a precise formation of a three-dimensional shape using a ceramic material and a uniform curing property of the three-dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Jin Kyu Lee, Sang Bum Ahn
  • Patent number: 10545420
    Abstract: A magnetic toner is provided, which has a magnetic toner particle containing a binder resin, a wax, and a magnetic body, wherein, when Dn is a number-average particle diameter of the toner, CV1 is coefficient of variation of a brightness variance value of the toner in a particle diameter range of Dn ?0.500 to +0.500, and CV2 is coefficient of variation of a brightness variance value of the toner in a particle diameter range of Dn ?1.500 to ?0.500, a relationship CV2/CV1?1.00 is satisfied; an average brightness of the toner in the range of Dn ?0.500 to +0.500 is 30.0 to 60.0; and when, in a cross section of the toner observed using a transmission electron microscope, which is divided with a square grid having a side of 0.8 ?m, coefficient of variation CV3 of an occupied area percentage for the magnetic body is 40.0 to 80.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Yusuke Hasegawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Tomohisa Sano, Kenji Ookubo, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Takuma Ikejiri
  • Patent number: 10331053
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a toner for development of electrostatic images, including step (1): subjecting a polyhydric alcohol component and a polycarboxylic acid component to polycondensation reaction in the presence of a hydroxy group- or carboxy group-containing hydrocarbon wax (W1) to obtain a non-crystalline resin (A) containing a constitutional component derived from the hydrocarbon wax (W1) and also containing a polyester moiety; step (2): dispersing the non-crystalline resin (A) obtained in the step (1) in an aqueous medium to obtain an aqueous dispersion of resin particles (X); step (3): aggregating the resin particles (X) obtained in the step (2) in an aqueous medium in the presence of a crystalline polyester (B) to obtain aggregated particles; and step (4): coalescing the aggregated particles obtained in the step (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Murata, Hiroto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10036982
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carrier in which decrease in specific gravity is achieved and a volatile organic compound (VOC) is reduced and to provide an electrophotographic developer using the carrier. There is provided a carrier including a core material coated with a resin, the core material including a magnetic component and a nonmagnetic component, wherein the sum total of volatile organic compounds is 1 ppb or more and 1.5 ppm or less. There is also provided an electrophotographic developer using the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sawamoto, Tetsuya Uemura
  • Patent number: 9981484
    Abstract: A method for applying flame treatments to a print surface on an object in an inkjet printer includes activating a hydrogen torch within the inkjet printer to generate a flame through a nozzle of the hydrogen torch and operating an actuator to move at least one of the print surface or the nozzle in a predetermined direction to apply the flame from the nozzle to the print surface. The method further includes adjusting a rate of fuel flow to the nozzle of the hydrogen torch to change a thermal output level of the flame with reference to a change in distance between the nozzle of the hydrogen torch and the print surface during the operating of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Steven R. Moore, Douglas K. Herrmann, Alexander J. Fioravanti
  • Patent number: 9921509
    Abstract: A composite charge control agent for use in electrostatic imaging comprises porous, inorganic core particles of at least 0.08 microns in diameter, impregnated with 2% to 50% by weight of one or more charge control chemicals and up to 50% by weight of one or more additional compounds such as a polymer, a wax, a dye, or other organic chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Esprix Technologies, LP
    Inventors: John Francis Cooper, Tonya Nicole Pless, Mark William Cummings, Jana Petrova, Jeff Lee Morgan
  • Patent number: 9740129
    Abstract: Ferrite particles have, as a main component, a material represented by a composition formula MxFe3?xO4 (where M is at least one type of metal selected from a group made of Mg, Mn, Ca, Ti, Cu, Zn, Sr and Ni, 0<x<1), where the maximum height Rz of the particles falls within a range of 1.40 ?m to 1.90 ?m, and the degree of distortion Rsk of the particles falls within a range of ?0.25 to ?0.07. In this way, when the ferrite particles are used as the carrier of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, even if an image formation speed is increased, the occurrence of a failure is reduced for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD., DOWA IP CREATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Sasaki, Yohei Ishikawa, Haruka Seki
  • Patent number: 9715188
    Abstract: The toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant, an iron oxide particle and an organic-inorganic composite fine particle, wherein the organic-inorganic composite fine particle comprises a vinyl resin particle, and inorganic fine particles which are embedded in the vinyl resin particle, and at least a part of which is exposed at surface of the organic-inorganic composite fine particle; the organic-inorganic composite fine particle has convexes derived from the inorganic fine particles, and wherein: a coverage ratio of the surface of the organic-inorganic composite fine particle with the inorganic fine particle is 20-70%; and the content of the iron oxide particle present on a surface of the toner particle is 0.1-5.0 mass % based on the mass of the toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Terauchi, Koji Nishikawa, Shohei Tsuda, Yojiro Hotta, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Takayuki Itakura, Takeshi Naka, Motohide Shiozawa
  • Patent number: 9605124
    Abstract: A method for making an impact-absorptive material is introduced. The method involves mixing silicon dioxide (SiO2) particles, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and an appropriate amount of an additive, allowing the mixture to settle until tiny bubbles in the mixture are evenly distributed, thereby forming a colloidal solution raw material, adding a crosslinking agent to the colloidal solution raw material to form a colloidal solution plastic material, filling a die with the colloidal solution plastic material, heating the colloidal solution plastic material in the die such that it takes shape and forms an effective impact absorbing material, quickly and at low costs, for use in physical education, medicine, transportation, and safety-enhancing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Teh-Long Lai, Chun-Ho Chen, Chin-Wei Chun, Chin-Tsai Li
  • Patent number: 9436112
    Abstract: Provided are a toner and a two-component developer each of which: shows a small fluctuation in charge quantity and a small fluctuation in image density even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment; and does not cause any member contamination even after endurance and hence can stably output an image. The toner and the two-component developer each have a feature in that positively chargeable strontium titanate fine particles are added to toner particles having fixed thereto negatively chargeable silica fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Iwasaki, Nozomu Komatsu, Takakuni Kobori, Kohji Takenaka, Hideki Kaneko, Takeshi Hashimoto, Ichiro Kanno, Hiroyuki Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 9408912
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a suspension of agglomerates of magnetic alkoxysilane-coated metal nanoparticles, wherein an aqueous suspension of magnetic metal nanoparticles is incubated with alkoxysilane, wherein the incubation is carried out essentially in the absence of an organic solvent. The present invention further relates to suspension of agglomerates of magnetic alkoxysilane-coated metal containing nanoparticles obtainable by the method of the present invention and to a composition comprising agglomerates of magnetic alkoxysilane-coated metal nanoparticles, wherein the agglomerates have an average size of 30 to 450 nm, preferably of 50 to 350 nm and especially of 70 to 300 nm as determined by light scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: MagForce AG
    Inventors: Norbert Waldöfner, Andreas Jordan
  • Patent number: 9304428
    Abstract: Provided are a toner containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, the toner having a specific hue angle and an absorbance at a specific wavelength in reflectance spectrophotometry, and a full-color image-forming method involving the use of the toner, the method including the steps of: forming an electrostatic image on a charged electrostatic image bearing member; developing the formed electrostatic image with the toner to form a toner image; transferring the formed toner image onto a transfer material; and fixing the transferred toner image to the transfer material to form a fixed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ayaki, Shigeto Tamura
  • Patent number: 9285715
    Abstract: A method for the reduction of caking of excess liquid developer dispersion that remains present on the surface of a member after transfer of liquid developer dispersion from one member to another member in a digital printing apparatus, comprising the step of adding a dispersing composition to the excess liquid developer dispersion, wherein the dispersing composition comprises a dispersing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Xeikon IP BV
    Inventors: Dirk Marcel Constant Gijsbrechts, Werner Jozef Johan Op De Beeck, Wim Libaers, Lode Erik Dries Deprez
  • Patent number: 9280077
    Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic image developing toner less likely to cause image degradation even when used for a long period, by controlling CCA particles present on surfaces of toner particles and thereby keeping an amount of tribocharge generated between the toner and a magnetic carrier or the like constant. A charge control agent composition for external addition for controlling charge amount of toner particles includes: at least two types of carrier particles different in average particle size of primary particles; and a charge control agent (CCA), and an electrostatic image developing toner is constituted of a mixture of toner particles and the aforesaid charge control agent composition for external addition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: MORIMURA CHEMICALS LIMITED, SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Tsunemi, Toshihiko Oguchi, Atsushi Suka, Takashi Iimura, Kazuyuki Matsumura, Muneo Kudo, Masaki Tanaka, Yoshiteru Sakatsume
  • Publication number: 20150017581
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner which exhibits a high degree of blackness and high tinting strength, and in which scraping of a toner carrying member surface by the magnetic toner is not caused, and image defects such as fogging and tailing are suppressed. A magnetic toner comprising a magnetic toner particle that contains a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, wherein, the number-average particle diameter of the magnetic iron oxide particle ranges from 0.05 ?m to 0.15 ?m, and a relationship between the number-average particle diameter (?m) of the magnetic iron oxide particle and the specific surface area (m2/g) of the magnetic iron oxide particle satisfies Expression (1) below. [Number?average particle diameter]×[specific surface area]?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Naohiko Tsuchida, Wakashi Iida, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Toru Takahashi, Daisuke Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 8828633
    Abstract: To obtain a toner which has excellent charge rise and stability, tends to have a sharp charge distribution, has excellent pigment dispersion properties, exhibits no disarray in an image even during a high-speed copying operation, and can stably output high-resolution images. A toner comprising toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, resin PA, and resin PB, wherein the resin PA has unit A represented by Formula (1), the resin PB has unit B represented by Formula (2), a content “a” of the unit A in the toner particle is 2.00 ?mol/g or more, and a molar ratio b/a of the content “a” and a content “b” of the unit B in the toner particle is 0.10 or more and 10.00 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Itabashi, Takashi Kenmoku, Harumi Takada
  • Publication number: 20140178100
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner containing an external additive having a volume-average particle size of about 80 to 400 nm and an average circularity of about 0.7 to 0.85. The developer is used in an image forming apparatus including an image-carrying member having a top surface layer containing fluorocarbon resin particles, and a developer-carrying member that faces the image-carrying member and carries an electrostatic image developer, in which a value obtained by dividing the amount of developer on the developer-carrying member [g/m2] by a shortest distance between the image-carrying member and the developer-carrying member [?m] is about 0.8 to 1.8, and a peripheral velocity ratio of the developer-carrying member to the image-carrying member is about 1.5 to 5.0 or the developer-carrying member moves in a direction opposite to the image-carrying member in a facing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Sakon TAKAHASHI, Akihiro IIZUKA, Motoko SAKAI, Kunihiko SATO, Kazuhiko ARAI, Nobumasa FURUYA, Masaaki TAKAHASHI, Daisuke HARUYAMA, Koji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20140065535
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer which has an excellent durability and a stable charging property and is free from occurrence of spent toner thereonto, and a two-component system developer comprising the magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer and a toner. The present invention relates to a core material of a magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer comprising spherical composite particles comprising at least ferromagnetic iron oxide fine particles and a cured phenol resin and having an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 ?m, a resin index of the spherical composite particles being within the range of 35 to 80%, and a magnetic carrier obtained by coating a surface of respective particles of the magnetic carrier core material with a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: TODA KOGYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Kinoshita, Eiichi Kurita
  • Patent number: 8617776
    Abstract: A method and system for printing documents with one or more embedded security features is provided. Security features are embedded in the document by co-printing magnetic and non-magnetic toner on a receiver before fixation by a fixing station. The combination of magnetic and non-magnetic toners in the image results in image elements that easily show alteration or are undetectable by visual means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jason Morgan, John F. Crichton, Raymond Rossborough, Timothy G. Armstrong, Matthias H. Regelsberger
  • Publication number: 20130344428
    Abstract: The positively chargeable magnetic toner contains a binder resin and a magnetic powder with a specified octahedral shape, in which a frictional charged amount of the magnetic powder with a ferrite carrier, and a particle number of the magnetic powder exposed on a surface of the positively chargeable magnetic toner per 1 ?m2 area of the positively chargeable magnetic toner in an electron microscope image, are defined as values within predetermined ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: Akinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20130244159
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer having excellent developing performance and little change in image concentration, and achieving long-term suppression of image defects such as transfer failure and fogging. Provided is a two-component developer containing a magnetic carrier and a toner, wherein the magnetic carrier has magnetic carrier particles comprising a silicone resin B coated on the surfaces of filled core particles in which pores of porous magnetic core particles are filled with a silicone resin A, the silicone resin A is a silicone resin cured in the presence of a non-metal catalyst or without a catalyst, while the silicone resin B is a silicone resin cured in the presence of a metal catalyst having titanium or zirconium, and the toner contains a binder resin, a release agent and a colorant, and has an average circularity of 0.940 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koh Ishigami, Nozomu Komatsu, Kentaro Kamae, Yoshinobu Baba
  • Patent number: 8512925
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner capable of preventing electrostatic offset while attaining a high image quality by a high speed machine. The magnetic toner comprises magnetic toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a magnetic material, and a fine inorganic powder, in which the binder resin contains a polyester unit, and the magnetic toner has a dielectric loss factor at 40° C. and 100 kHz of 0.40 pF/m or more but 1.00 pF/m or less and a dielectric loss factor at 150° C. and 100 kHz of 0.50 pF/m or more but 4.00 pF/m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuhei Moribe, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Toru Takahashi, Daisuke Tsujimoto, Masami Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8501377
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner capable of providing a stable image by suppressing sleeve contamination even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment and under a normal-temperature and low-humidity environment and further suppressing large-particle fogging caused after the toner is left alone for a week. The magnetic toner contains toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, in which the binder resin has a polyester unit, the toner has i) a dielectric loss factor at 40° C. and 100 kHz of 0.50 pF/m or more but 0.90 pF/m or less, and ii) a true specific gravity of 1.50 g/cm3 or more but 1.85 g/cm3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Shuhei Moribe, Daisuke Tsujimoto, Masami Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20130183614
    Abstract: A porous ferrite core material for an electrophotographic developer wherein the apparent density thereof is 1.5 to 1.9 g/cm3, the shape factor SF-2 thereof is 101 to 110 and the magnetization as measured with a VSM at 1K·1000/4?·A/m is 40 to 60 Am2/kg, a resin-coated ferrite carrier for an electrophotographic developer obtained by coating the surface of the porous ferrite core material with a resin, and an electrophotographic developer using the ferrite carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130143152
    Abstract: A carrier for electrostatic image development, and a developer, an image formation method and an image formation apparatus using the carrier. The carrier is carrier particles. When the carrier particles each have a coating layer on a magnetic particle, the carrier has a total energy amount of 1500 to 3000 mJ. When the carrier particles each have a coating layer on a magnetic powder-dispersed particle, the carrier has a total energy amount of 1000 to 1500 mJ. The total energy amount is measured with a powder rheometer at a tip end speed of a rotor of 100 mm/s and a helix angle of the rotor of ?5°. The total energy amount is a value of a portion of the carrier in a measurement container which portion is contained in the region between the packed surface of the carrier and a surface disposed under the packed surface by 70 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 8426094
    Abstract: A magnetic toner has magnetic toner particles, each of the magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and an inorganic fine powder. The magnetic material is prepared by treating the surface of magnetic iron oxide with a silane compound. When the magnetic iron oxide is dispersed in an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid and dissolved until the dissolution proportion of the iron element reaches 5% by mass based on the total amount of the iron element contained in the magnetic iron oxide, the amount of silicon eluted by that point of time is 0.05% by mass or more and 0.50% by mass or less based on the magnetic iron oxide. The magnetic material has a moisture adsorption amount per unit area of 0.30 mg/m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michihisa Magome, Takashi Matsui, Tomohisa Sano, Shuichi Hiroko, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Shotaro Nomura
  • Patent number: 8399167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner composition for forming a masking pattern for use e.g. in connection with a method of building up a three-dimensional body from a large number of mutually connected layers of powder particles that are bonded to each other using radiant heat. The toner composition consists of powder particles that arc able to withstand a temperature of at least 200° C. without sticking together. It also relates to a developer that comprises the toner composition and carrier particles and a method in connection with the production of a volume body by using a toner composition or a developer according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sintermask GmbH
    Inventors: David Hermann, Ralf Larson
  • Patent number: 8354214
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides carriers for use with toner compositions. In embodiments, a carrier may include a core, having a dry powder polymer coating. In embodiments, the coating may also include a colorant, such as carbon black. Processes for coating such carriers with the dry powder polymer coatings are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Suxia Yang, Richard P. N. Veregin, Karen Ann Moffat
  • Publication number: 20120196220
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner capable of providing a stable image by suppressing sleeve contamination even under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment and under a normal-temperature and low-humidity environment and further suppressing large-particle fogging caused after the toner is left alone for a week. The magnetic toner contains toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, in which the binder resin has a polyester unit, the toner has i) a dielectric loss factor at 40° C. and 100 kHz of 0.50 pF/m or more but 0.90 pF/m or less, and ii) a true specific gravity of 1.50 g/cm3 or more but 1.85 g/cm3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Shuhei Moribe, Daisuke Tsujimoto, Masami Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20120129087
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer comprising spherical magnetic composite particles comprising a phenol resin as a binder and ferromagnetic iron oxide particles bonded to each other through the phenol resin, wherein the spherical magnetic composite particles have a ten-point mean roughness Rz of 0.3 to 2.0 ?m. The magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer according to the present invention exhibits an excellent durability against peeling-off and abrasion of coating resins formed thereon and a high stability to mechanical stress exerted onto the carrier, is free from occurrence of spent toner, can be stably held over a long period of time without occurrence of fogging and unevenness in density of toner images, and can keep high-quality images with an excellent gradation for a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Katsuji Iwami, Shigenori Harada, Eiichi Kurita, Kaori Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8137879
    Abstract: A toner including stabilized magnetic single-crystal nanoparticles, wherein the value of the magnetic anisotropy of the magnetic nanoparticles is greater than or equal to 2×104 J/m3. The magnetic nanoparticle may be a ferromagnetic nanoparticle, such as FePt. The toner includes a magnetic material that minimizes the size of the particle, resulting in excellent magnetic pigment dispersion and dispersion stability, particularly in emulsion/aggregation toner processes. The smaller sized magnetic particles of the toner also maintains excellent magnetic properties, thereby reducing the amount of magnetic particle loading required in the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Karen A. Moffat, Marcel P. Breton, Peter M. Kazmaier, Patricia A. Burns, Paul F. Smith
  • Publication number: 20120064449
    Abstract: The present invention relates to black magnetic iron oxide particles comprising magnetite as a main component, wherein when the black magnetic iron oxide particles are molded into a tablet shape, an electric resistance value of the tablet in an alternating current electric field is controlled to produce an impedance of not less than 2×106 ?cm as measured in a characteristic frequency range thereof. The black magnetic iron oxide particles according to the present invention can provide a toner capable of exhibiting a good charging performance and a uniform charging property under the high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, so that when developing an electrostatic latent image therewith, it is possible to obtain toner images having a high resolution or definition, and further the use of heavy metal elements in the black magnetic iron oxide particles can be minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Ryo Iwai, Mamoru Kamigaki, Nobuya Shimo, Naoki Uchida
  • Patent number: 8124306
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic toner enabling an image with high image density and excellent image reproducibility to be obtained, which is excellent in fluidity, charging stability, and charging uniformity, even for long-term use, and also enabling an image whose fogging, ghost, and scattering are suppressed to be obtained. The magnetic toner has at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, where, the magnetic material is an magnetic iron oxide whose dielectric breakdown voltage of the magnetic material is 160 to 1600 V/cm, and the dielectric loss tangent (tan ?) of the magnetic toner at 100 kHz and 40° C. is 2.0×10?3 to 1.0×10?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junko Hirata, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Yusuke Hasegawa, Kouji Nishikawa, Miho Okazaki, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 8101326
    Abstract: A method and system for printing documents with one or more embedded security features is provided. Security features are embedded in the document by co-printing magnetic and non-magnetic toner on a receiver before fixation by a fixing station. The combination of magnetic and non-magnetic toners in the image results in image elements that easily show alteration or are undetectable by visual means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jason Morgan, John F. Crichton, Raymond Rossborough, Timothy G. Armstrong, Matthias H. Regelsberger
  • Patent number: 8084174
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner excellent in ability to prevent electrostatic offset and fixation tailing. Provided is a toner including toner particles each containing at least a binder resin, a wax, and a magnetic iron oxide, and inorganic fine particles, in which the magnetic iron oxide contains at least a Ti component, an Al component, an Si component, and an Fe component; and the each component has some particular characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Kouji Nishikawa, Kentarou Kamae, Takashige Kasuya
  • Publication number: 20110294056
    Abstract: A magnetic toner has magnetic toner particles, each of the magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and an inorganic fine powder. The magnetic material is prepared by treating the surface of magnetic iron oxide with a silane compound. When the magnetic iron oxide is dispersed in an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid and dissolved until the dissolution proportion of the iron element reaches 5% by mass based on the total amount of the iron element contained in the magnetic iron oxide, the amount of silicon eluted by that point of time is 0.05% by mass or more and 0.50% by mass or less based on the magnetic iron oxide. The magnetic material has a moisture adsorption amount per unit area of 0.30 mg/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michihisa Magome, Takashi Matsui, Tomohisa Sano, Shuichi Hiroko, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Shotaro Nomura
  • Patent number: 8057976
    Abstract: A toner which can efficiently induce high-frequency magnetic induction heating by Neel relaxation and/or Brown relaxation is provided. A toner including a core particle containing a thermoplastic polymer material and superparamagnetic ferrite fine particles having a particle diameter of less than 100 nm which adhere to the surfaces of the core particle is manufactured by directly forming the superparamagnetic ferrite fine particles having a particle diameter of less than 100 nm on the surfaces of the core particle so that the superparamagnetic ferrite fine particles having a particle diameter of less than 100 nm are not in contact with each other. As a result, the toner is prevented from being scattered due to the influence of a magnetic field, so that a high quality image is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ueda, Masanori Abe
  • Publication number: 20110111337
    Abstract: In the formation of images by a two-component development system, provided is a magnetic carrier that can be used to output an image which has sufficient density, in which few white spots are present in a low-density portion located near the boundary between a high-density region and a low-density region, and in which the low-density portion has good graininess. The magnetic carrier contains magnetic carrier particles each of which has resin and a magnetic particle. The magnetic particle contains ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound. The ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound are combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Juun Horie, Kenta Kubo, Tomoaki Miyazawa, Takeshi Yamamoto, Manami Haraguchi, Hirokazu Usami, Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Hitoshi Oda
  • Patent number: 7939231
    Abstract: A magnetic toner is disclosed having magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide. The magnetic toner has a specific saturation magnetization and a specific residual magnetization in ascertain magnetic field. The binder resin includes a polyester component polymerized with an aromatic carboxylic acid titanium compound as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ogawa, Yusuke Hasegawa, Shinichiro Abe, Junko Nishiyama, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 7906266
    Abstract: A magnetic toner is disclosed including magnetic toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The magnetic powder contains a specific amount of phosphorus elements, and a specific amount of silicon elements, based on the iron element, with the ratio of the phosphorous element to the silicon elements being in a specific range, and has a specific volume-average particle diameter, a specific saturation magnetization in a specific magnetic field, and a specific residual magnetization. The magnetic toner can realize high image density and reduce fog and spots around line images regardless of environmental variation, and is superior in durability, and besides, can achieve small toner consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michihisa Magome, Eriko Yanase, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100310978
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer containing: a magnetic carrier obtained by coating a magnetic core with a resin; and toner, in which: the magnetic core contains at least a ferrite component and at least one kind of an oxide selected from the group consisting of SiO2 and Al2O3; the content of the oxide is 4.0 mass % or more and 40.0 mass % or less with respect to the magnetic core; the magnetic core has a specific resistance of 5.0×104 ?·cm or more and 5.0×108 ?·cm or less at the time of the application of 1,000 V/cm; the magnetic carrier has an intensity of magnetization in 79.6 kA/m of 40.0 Am2/kg or more and 65.0 Am2/kg or less, and a residual magnetization after the application of an external magnetic field of 79.6 kA/m of 3.0 Am2/kg or less; and the toner has a weight-average particle diameter (D4) of 3.0 gin or more and 10.0 ?m or less and an average circularity of 0.940 or more and 0.990 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoko Endo, Koh Ishigami, Naoki Okamoto, Yoshinobu Baba
  • Patent number: 7796926
    Abstract: A developing apparatus is provided which can suppress a fluctuation in image density in a discontinuous printing mode provided with a pause period. The developing apparatus includes a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive drum, a developer bearing member for carrying and conveying the developer and a developer layer thickness-regulating unit placed close to the developer bearing member for regulating the amount of the developer carried and conveyed by the developer bearing member, the developer layer thickness-regulating unit being. As the developer, a negatively chargeable, one-component, magnetic toner is used having magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic iron oxide particle, and has a specific saturation magnetization, specific weight-average particle diameter and specific composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuma Matsuda, Masayoshi Shimamura, Yasutaka Akashi, Satoshi Otake, Minoru Ito, Kazuhito Wakabayashi, Daisuke Yoshiba
  • Patent number: 7740998
    Abstract: A positively chargeable developer is provided which is capable of providing stable image quality without causing any image defect even in long-term use. The developer includes at least positively chargeable toner particles each containing at least a binder resin and magnetic iron oxide, silica and an inorganic fine powder. A unconfined yield strength at a major consolidation stress of 5 kPa of the developer is in the range of 0.1 to 2.5 kPa, and a unconfined yield strength at a major consolidation stress of 20 kPa of the developer is in the range of 2.5 to 5.5 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Daisuke Yoshiba, Masami Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20100143833
    Abstract: A magnetic carrier is provided which uses a toner having high coloring power and enables development to be performed at low electric field intensity and can form high quality images while keeping gradation characteristics. The magnetic carrier includes magnetic carrier particles including at least porous magnetic core particles and a resin. The electric field intensity just before the break-down of the magnetic carrier is 1,300 V/cm or more and 5,000 V/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Tomoko Endo, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Kunihiko Nakamura, Nozomu Komatsu, Chika Inoue, Takayuki Itakura
  • Patent number: 7666562
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image forming media composition including an infrared reflecting pigment. The infrared reflecting pigment may be one that substantially absorbs light in the visible spectrum of about 400-700 nanometers and reflects greater than about 5.0% of light within the wavelength of about 700-2500 nanometers. The infrared reflecting pigment may therefore be combined with pigments such as carbon black in a toner formulation and provide the ability to control toner thickness level within a device such as a toner patch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Munn Carter, Jr., Thomas George Twardeck
  • Publication number: 20100028793
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner excellent in ability to prevent electrostatic offset and fixation tailing. Provided is a toner including toner particles each containing at least a binder resin, a wax, and a magnetic iron oxide, and inorganic fine particles, in which the magnetic iron oxide contains at least a Ti component, an Al component, an Si component, and an Fe component; and the each component has some particular characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Kouji Nishikawa, Kentarou Kamae, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 7598011
    Abstract: It is contemplated to provide irregular shaped ferrite carrier which has a lower resistance, a high specific surface area, a low specific gravity and a longer operational life, and an electrophotographic developer comprising the ferrite carrier which prevents the toner scattering, has a high image density, and is responsive to high-speed and color imaging. The irregular shaped ferrite carrier is characterized in that the carrier particles are irregular shaped, and 40 percent by number or more of the particles have a rock candy sugar shape and/or an oyster shell shape, and that the shape factor (SF-1=R2/S×?/4×100, wherein R is a maximum length and S is a projected area.) is 140 to 250, and the distribution width (?) is 60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Toru Iwata, Toshio Honjo
  • Patent number: 7582400
    Abstract: Magnetic toner involves magnetic powder 1 having the particle shape of an octahedron 2 that is a convex polyhedron surrounded by eight triangles as a basis, each of the vertexes and edges of the octahedron being in a curved surface shape, and having a portion 3 that can be taken as a straight line on the outer periphery of its projected image. Therefore, the magnetic toner is superior in both two contradictory properties, that is the property of making it easy for a charging amount to quickly rise as well as improving the charging amount and the property of making it difficult for charge-up to occur, thereby making it possible to form a good image under a wide environment. In an image forming method, an electrostatic latent image is developed into a toner image by a magnetic one-component jumping developing method using the magnetic toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Yukinori Nakayama, Kouzou Teramoto, Hiroshi Mizuhata, Kousuke Satou
  • Publication number: 20090197192
    Abstract: A magnetic toner having magnetic toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, wherein, in the test of dissolution level of the magnetic material, the dissolution percentages S3 (% by mass), S15 (% by mass) and S30 (% by mass), and the dissolution level proportion Sc satisfy the following expressions: 0.5?S3?10, 40?S15?80, 1.2?Sc[=(S15?S3)/(S30?S15)]?10; and the magnetic toner has a dielectric loss factor (tan ?) at 25° C. and at a frequency 1.0×104 Hz, within the range of from 2.0×10?3 or more to 1.5×10?2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuichi Hiroko, Tadashi Dojo, Michihisa Magome, Eriko Yanase, Takashi Matsui, Tomohisa Sano, Akira Sakakibara, Yoshitaka Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20090197190
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress the adhesion of a carrier to an image bearing member and the generation of a flaw in the surface layer of the image bearing member, and to improve the dot reproducibility of an electrostatic latent image, and soon. The object is achieved by a two-component developer containing a magnetic carrier, which contains resin-containing magnetic particles, in which the packed bulk density ?1 is 0.80 to 2.40 and ?1/?2 (?2 represents true density) is 0.20 to 0.42 of the porous magnetic core particles, and a specific resistance of the porous magnetic core particles, an average breaking strength of the magnetic carrier and a toner surface tension constant in a 45-vol % aqueous solution of methanol measured by a capillary suction time method fall into the specific range, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Nozomu Komatsu, Yoshinobu Baba, Takayuki Itakura