Patents Examined by Charles Collins Sullivan, IV
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Patent number: 12204276Abstract: A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles. The aggregating includes stirring the dispersion in the aggregating at a required stirring power of 1.0 kW/m3 or more and 6.0 kW/m3 or less per unit volume, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), in which Requirement (1): a viscosity of the dispersion during the stirring is 5 Pa·s or more and 50 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1/s, where the viscosity of the dispersion is measured at a sample temperature of 25° C. using a part of the dispersion as a sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takahisa Tatekawa, Daisuke Tomita, Daisuke Noguchi, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yuji Isshiki
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Patent number: 12197169Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle, and the toner particle includes: a core particle containing a large-diameter particle having a number average particle diameter of 1 ?m or more; and a shell layer that includes at least two resin layers each containing an amorphous resin and covers a surface of the core particles, and an outermost layer of the at least two resin layers is a resin layer being made of the amorphous resin.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukiaki Nakamura, Daisuke Noguchi, Masaru Takahashi, Kazuhiko Nakamura
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Patent number: 12169390Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer containing: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle, in which the toner particle has a surface property index value of 2.0 or more and 2.8 or less; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio B/A of a surface area B to a planar view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the planar view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe, Karin Sakai, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi
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Patent number: 12158711Abstract: An electrophotographic member comprising a base layer and a surface layer, the surface layer including at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, perfluoropolyether having a specified structure and a fluorine-containing copolymer, the fluorine-containing copolymer having a first polymerized unit of at least one of methyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate, and a second polymerized unit of at least one of methyl acrylate having a fluoroalkyl group and methyl methacrylate having a fluoroalkyl group, a molar ratio between the first polymerized unit and the second polymerized unit being 7 to 12, the fluorine-containing copolymer having Mw of 80000 or more and 150000 or less, and the ratio between Mn and Mw (Mw/Mn) being 3.0 or more and 6.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keisuke Abe, Masahiro Takenaga, Kenji Onuma
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Patent number: 12153377Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer contains: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle; and the toner particle has a surface property index value of 1.0 or more and less than 2.0; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio B/A of a surface area B to a plane view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the plane view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Karin Sakai, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe
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Patent number: 12117769Abstract: A method for producing a recycled carrier includes: performing classification, the classification including separating a carrier having a coating layer from a collected developer by a centrifugal air classifier, the collected developer containing the carrier and being obtained by collecting an electrostatic charge image developer remaining after image formation; and performing recoating, the recoating including dissolving or thermally melting a coating resin of the separated and classified carrier and then coating the resulting carrier again to produce a recycled carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Takeshi Tanabe, Yosuke Tsurumi, Shintaro Anno
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Patent number: 12078959Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes aggregating at least resin particles and releasing agent particles contained in a dispersion to form aggregated particles; heating and fusing the aggregated particles to prepare a dispersion containing fused particles; and cooling the dispersion containing the fused particles to a temperature equal to or lower than a temperature 30° C. lower than an endothermic peak onset temperature derived from a releasing agent that constitutes the releasing agent particles, in which, in the cooling, the dispersion is cooled at a rate of 30° C./min or more and 130° C./min or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Daisuke Tomita, Hiroshi Nakazawa, Yuji Isshiki
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Patent number: 12078961Abstract: A toner includes a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin. A ratio of the storage modulus of the toner G? (To) at a temperature To to the storage modulus of the toner G? (To+3) at a temperature To+3 is greater than or equal to 10, in a case where the temperature To is within a range from 50° C. to 65° C.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuka Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Yamashita, Junichi Watanabe, Tomomi Harashima
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Patent number: 12072670Abstract: A method for producing a resin particle dispersion includes: preparing a phase-inverted emulsion by phase inversion emulsification of a resin using an organic solvent and an aqueous medium; and removing the organic solvent from the phase-inverted emulsion by reduced pressure distillation.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Keita Yamamoto, Takashi Inukai, Yuji Isshiki
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Patent number: 12066789Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: mixing at least one flocculant into a liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles by adding the flocculant into the liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles while circulating the liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles between a stirring vessel and a disperser that applies a mechanical shear force; forming aggregated particles by heating the liquid dispersion with the flocculant therein after reducing the viscosity of the liquid dispersion; and forming toner particles by heating the liquid dispersion containing the aggregated particles and thereby making the aggregated particles fuse and coalesce.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Daisuke Noguchi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yuji Isshiki, Hiroshi Nakazawa
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Patent number: 12055889Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle that comprises a core particle comprising a binder resin, and a shell layer comprising a thermoplastic resin on a surface of the core particle; and organosilicon polymer particles on a surface of the toner particle, wherein a peak top molecular weight of the thermoplastic resin, according to measurement by gel permeation chromatography, is 30000 to 500000, a number-average primary particle diameter of the organosilicon polymer particles is 10 nm to 500 nm, and an absolute value of a difference (?SP) between an SP value (SPSi) of the organosilicon polymer particles and an SP value (SPSh) of the thermoplastic resin present in the shell layer is not more than 2.30.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yuujirou Nagashima, Tomoya Nagaoka
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Toner, developer, toner set, toner receiving unit, image forming apparatus, and image forming method
Patent number: 12019394Abstract: A toner includes polyolefin and has an exothermic peak in a range from 40° C. to 70° C. in a cooling process of the polyolefin by the DSC after a first heating process of the polyolefin by DSC. The polyolefin does not have an exothermic peak in the cooling process of the polyolefin by the DSC after the first heating process of the polyolefin by the DSC, and has an exothermic peak in a range from 0° C. to 30° C. in a second heating process of the polyolefin by the DSC.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Toyoshi Sawada, Kazumi Suzuki, Katsunori Kurose, Akihiro Kaneko, Motoshi Iizuka -
Patent number: 11982975Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier contains a magnetic particle and a resin coating layer coating the magnetic particle, in which the resin coating layer contains inorganic particles, a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the carrier to a plan view area A of the carrier that are obtained by three-dimensional analysis of a surface of the carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, a volume average particle diameter of the magnetic particle is 25 ?m or more and 34 ?m or less, and a fluidity of the magnetic particle is 28 s/50 g or more and 36 s/50 g or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe
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Patent number: 11960243Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles that include a binder resin and a release agent and have an exposure ratio of the release agent of 15% or more and 30% or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an arithmetic average particle size of 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, the resin cover layers have an average thickness of 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces of the carrier three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe, Karin Sakai
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Patent number: 11892800Abstract: A method for producing a toner for electrostatic charge image development includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; terminating growth of the aggregated particles by adding an alkaline aqueous solution to a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to increase a pH of the dispersion containing the aggregated particles; and fusing and coalescing the aggregated particles into toner particles by heating the dispersion containing the aggregated particles. Terminating the growth of the aggregated particles includes, while stirring the dispersion containing the aggregated particles, stepwise or continuously reducing a stirring power per unit volume.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yoshimasa Fujihara, Daisuke Noguchi, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Hiroshi Nakazawa, Yuji Isshiki
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Patent number: 11841679Abstract: A cyan toner is provided. The cyan toner comprises toner particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant. From 1.0% to 20.0% by number of the toner particles have a CH rate of 7.0% or more in absolute value. The CH rate is calculated from the following formula (1): CH rate (%)=[(In?Iave)/Iave]×100??Formula (1) where, in a Raman spectrum of each toner particle, In represents an integrated intensity within a wavenumber region of from 2,600 to 3,180 cm?1 when an intensity at a wavenumber ? within a wavenumber region of from 2,600 to 2,800 cm?1 is s normalized to 1, where a total intensity of all the toner particles is maximum at the wavenumber ?; and Iave represents an average of the In.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiyori Fujino, Keisuke Tada, Shoki Matsuda, Fumihiko Chimoto, Ayumi Satoh
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Patent number: 11835874Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a binder resin and a wax, and a shell formed on a surface of the core particle, wherein the wax comprises a wax A, the shell comprises a resin comprising a functional group B, the wax A has a surface charge density DA of ?0.0080 to ?0.0025, and an absolute difference |DA?DB| between the surface charge density DA of the wax A and a surface charge density DB of the functional group B is not more than 0.0025.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Sato, Tomohisa Sano
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Patent number: 11599035Abstract: A toner having a toner particle including a toner base particle and an organosilicon polymer coating the toner base particle, wherein when S1 (?m2) is a total area of a non-coated part not coated with the organosilicon polymer on an outermost surface of the toner particle, S2 (?m2) is a total area of a coated part coated with the organosilicon polymer on the outermost surface of the toner particle, and SA1 (?m2) is a total of areas of non-coated part domains D1 with an area of not more than 0.10 ?m2 in size in the non-coated part not coated with the organosilicon polymer, formulae (1) and (2) below are satisfied. 0.45?[S2/(S1+S2)]?0.65??(1) (SA1/S1)?0.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuhei Terui, Takeshi Tsujino, Junya Asaoka, Yuu Sasano, Koki Inoue, Shohei Yamashita, Shota Amano