Patents Examined by Christopher D. Rodee
  • Patent number: 11079693
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive substrate; an undercoating layer that contains inorganic particles surface-treated with a surface treatment agent, and is provided in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoating layer, wherein, with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the conductive substrate, a proportion of an area being in contact with the inorganic particles is from 82% to 91%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Eri Kunisawa
  • Patent number: 11067914
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a liquid electrophotographic ink. The ink can include (A) a liquid vehicle; (B) at least one colorant; (C) a resin comprising an ethylene acid copolymer; (D) an ethylene/(meth)acrylic acid C1-10 alkyl ester copolymer selected from the group consisting of an ethylene/methyl acrylate copolymer and an ethylene/butyl acrylate copolymer; and (E) a condensation product of urea and aldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Getahun Biadglin, Emad Masoud, Reut Avigdor, Albert Teishev, Tehila Ben-Ezra, Igor Shutyi, Hanit Marom Tchaicheeyan
  • Patent number: 11067909
    Abstract: A compound is represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), R1 and R2 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, and a sum of the number of carbon atoms of the chemical group represented by R1 and the number of carbon atoms of the chemical group represented by R2 is 2. R3 and R4 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group, and a sum of the number of carbon atoms of the chemical group represented by R3 and the number of carbon atoms of the chemical group represented by R1 is 2. A photosensitive layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains at least a charge generating material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Azuma, Kensuke Kojima, Tomofumi Shimizu, Hideki Okada
  • Patent number: 11061341
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes, in sequence, a support, a conductive layer, an undercoat layer, a charge generation layer, and a charge transport layer. The conductive layer is a cured film, and the cured film contains titanium oxide particles doped with niobium. The undercoat layer contains a cured product of a composition that contains an electron transport material having a polymerizable functional group and a resin functionalized with a carboxylic acid derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Nishi, Takashi Anezaki, Taichi Sato, Atsushi Fujii, Kunihiko Sekido
  • Patent number: 11048184
    Abstract: A toner process including a) mixing reagents comprising at least one amorphous resin, an optional crystalline resin, an optional styrene, acrylate or styrene/acrylate, an optional wax, and an optional colorant to form an emulsion comprising a resin particle; b) adding at least one aggregating agent and aggregating said resin particle to form a nascent toner particle; c) optionally, adding one or more resins to form a shell on said nascent toner particle to yield a core-shell particle; d) adding a first chelating agent and a second chelating agent; wherein said first chelating agent and said second chelating agent are different; e) freezing particle growth to form an aggregated toner particle; f) coalescing said aggregated toner particle to form a toner particle; and g) optionally, collecting said toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Shivanthi Easwari Sriskandha, Richard P. N. Veregin, Guerino G. Sacripante, Edward G. Zwartz, Michael Steven Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11036155
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development contains: toner base particles containing at least a nonionic surfactant, a binder resin, and a release agent; and an external additive. The content of the nonionic surfactant is from 0.05% by mass to 1% by mass inclusive based on the total mass of the toner, and the external additive contains tin oxide particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yutaka Saito, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yuka Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11029618
    Abstract: There is provided a carrier including a magnetic core material having a surface coated with a surfactant-containing resin mixture of an elemental fluorine-containing resin and a polyimide resin. The carrier has an elution amount of an eluted material into water in an elution test ranging from 180 ppm to 3,500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aya Sakuta, Makoto Ishikawa, Hiroki Sawamoto, Tetsuya Uemura
  • Patent number: 11016404
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate. An outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a fluorine-based graft polymer and a fluorine-containing resin particle. The fluorine-based graft polymer includes at least a first structural unit that does not have an acidic group with a pKa of 3 or less but has a fluorine atom, a second structural unit derived from a macromonomer, and a third structural unit having the acidic group with a pKa of 3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Masahiro Iwasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Wataru Yamada, Takahiro Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 11001662
    Abstract: A composition including a three-dimensional polymeric printing powder; an organic polymeric additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the three-dimensional polymeric printing powder; wherein the organic polymeric additive is optionally cross-linked; and optionally, an inorganic additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the three-dimensional polymeric printing powder. A process for preparing a three-dimensional polymeric printing powder having an organic polymeric additive disposed thereon. A process for employing the three-dimensional polymeric printing powder including selective laser sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Nan-Xing Hu, Karen A. Moffat, Michael Steven Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11003104
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive includes a composite particle including a hydrotalcite particle covered on the surface with an organosilicon polymer fine particle, a coverage ratio of the hydrotalcite particle surface by the organosilicon polymer fine particle is from 1% to 50%, and given A (nm) as the number-average particle diameter of the primary particles of the organosilicon polymer fine particle and B (nm) as the number-average particle diameter of the primary particles of the hydrotalcite particle, the toner satisfies the following formula (I) and formula (II): A<B??(I) 20?A?350??(II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Katsura, Masamichi Sato, Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Masatake Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10996576
    Abstract: Provided are a magnetic core material for electrophotographic developer and a carrier for electrophotographic developer, which are excellent in charge characteristics and strength and with which a satisfactory image free from defects can be obtained, and a developer containing the carrier. A magnetic core material for electrophotographic developer, having a sulfur component content of from 50 to 700 ppm in terms of a sulfate ion and a BET specific surface area of from 0.06 to 0.25 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sawamoto, Tetsuya Uemura
  • Patent number: 10976677
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member that has mechanical durability, and can achieve both of suppression of an image flow and adequate electrical characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori, Shubun Kujirai
  • Patent number: 10962893
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer arranged on the conductive substrate and containing, as a charge generating material, any one material selected from the group consisting of titanyl phthalocyanines, metal-free phthalocyanines, chlorogallium phthalocyanines and hydroxygallium phthalocyanines; and, as an electron transporting material, a naphthalene tetracarboxylic acid diimide compound represented by Formula (1) below, where R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkylene group, an alkoxy group, an alkyl ester group, a phenyl group optionally having a substituent, a naphthyl group optionally having a substituent, or a halogen element; and R1 and R2 are optionally the same or different: The photoreceptor realizes a stable print density even in a low-temperature environment by suppressing a reduction in print density that is caused by potential fluctuation of the photoreceptor in the low-temperat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinjiro Suzuki, Seizo Kitagawa, Yuji Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10955764
    Abstract: A toner which is less likely to cause toner leakage and which is less likely to cause aggregation after being left to stand under a high temperature condition. A toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising colored resin particles comprising a binder resin and a colorant, and an external additive, wherein a conditioned bulk density obtained by a powder flowability analyzing device is from 0.525 g/mL to 0.565 g/mL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kojiro Akazaki, Junichi Takashima
  • Patent number: 10955765
    Abstract: A magnetic carrier comprising a magnetic carrier particle having a magnetic carrier particle having a magnetic carrier core particle and a resin coat layer formed on the magnetic carrier core particle surface, and inorganic fine particles A present on a surface of the magnetic carrier particle, wherein each of the inorganic fine particles A has a rectangular parallelepiped particle shape, the inorganic fine particles A have D1 of 10 to 60 nm, the inorganic fine particles A are inorganic particles which have been surface treated with a surface treatment agent or silane coupling agent-treated particles, SP1 of the resin coat layer and SP2 of the surface treatment agent satisfies SP1?SP2?14.00, and the coverage ratio of the magnetic carrier surface by the inorganic fine particles A as measured by ESCA is 5.0 to 20.0 atom %: and a two-component developer comprising at least the magnetic carrier and a toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Onozaki, Ichiro Kanno, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Nozomu Komatsu, Takakuni Kobori, Hiroyuki Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10948839
    Abstract: The toner contains a toner particle that has a binder resin, wherein an amount of a tetrahydrofuran THF-insoluble matter A collected when a THF dispersion of the binder resin is passed through a first filter having an average pore diameter of 8 ?m, is not more than 10 mass % of the binder resin, and an amount of a THF-insoluble matter B collected when the THF dispersion that has been passed through the first filter is passed through a second filter having an average pore diameter of 0.8 ?m, is from 5 mass % to 50 mass % of the binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichiro Tsubaki, Naoya Isono, Yasuaki Murai
  • Patent number: 10948840
    Abstract: A toner container used in an image forming apparatus including an exposure unit with a light emitting diode light source includes a container body, and a cyan toner stored in the container body. A lightness L*, a hue a*, and a hue b* of the cyan toner in a powder state satisfy 26.94?L*?34.84, ?5.13?a*?3.83, and ?47.47?b*??36.78.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventors: Hideharu Kuwabara, Shin Yamada
  • Patent number: 10948838
    Abstract: There is provided an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can achieve both of an adequately high initial sensitivity as the electrophotographic photosensitive member and reduction in the fluctuation of a light portion potential at the time of repeated use. An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support, an electroconductive layer and a photosensitive layer in this order, wherein the electroconductive layer contains a binder material and a metal oxide particle; the metal oxide particle has a core material containing a titanium oxide, and a covering layer which covers the core material and contains the titanium oxide; and when the oxygen deficiency ratio of the metal oxide particle is represented by A, the oxygen deficiency ratio of the core material is represented by B, and the oxygen deficiency ratio of the covering layer is represented by C, the Expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: A?2% (1) and 10×B<C (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Anezaki, Taichi Sato, Kunihiko Sekido, Masashi Nishi, Atsushi Fujii
  • Patent number: 10942465
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax; in a microcompression test under a maximum load condition of 1.1×10?3 N, a force applied to the toner particle when a percentage deformation of the toner particle with reference to a number-average particle diameter of the toner particle at 25° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 1.00 mN and the force applied to the toner particle when the percentage deformation at 45° C. reaches 15% is 0.10 to 0.40 mN; and when the force applied to the toner particle is a variable and the percentage deformation of the toner particle is from 15 to 30%, the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 25° C. and the rate of increase in the percentage deformation of the toner particle at 45° C. satisfy specific formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Koji Abe, Tomonori Matsunaga, Masamichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10935898
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support, an undercoat layer, a photosensitive layer, and a surface layer, the undercoat layer containing a binder resin and strontium titanate particles, the surface layer being a cured film of a composition containing at least one compound selected from a guanamine compound and a melamine compound, and a charge transport material having at least one substituent selected from —OH, —OCH3, —NH2, —SH, and —COOH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuyo Kuroiwa, Kumiko Takizawa, Tsuyoshi Shimada, Kan Tanabe, Haruhiko Mitsuda, Takanori Ueno, Tatsuya Ikezue, Wataru Kitamura