Patents Examined by Peter L. Vajda
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Patent number: 12292713Abstract: To provide a toner having both low temperature fixability and hot offset resistance and having excellent scratch resistance of a fixed image. A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, a crystalline polyester, and a calcium carbonate particle, in which the crystalline polyester includes a unit derived from an aliphatic diol and a unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, an ester group concentration Ec of the crystalline polyester is 27% by mass or more to 50% by mass or less, a content Ma of the calcium carbonate particle included in the toner particle is 3% by mass or more to 40% by mass or less, and a ratio (Ma/Mc) of the content Ma of the calcium carbonate particle included in the toner particle to a content Mc (% by mass) of the crystalline polyester included in the toner particle is 0.2 or more to 20 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisasuke Kajihara, Yuya Chimoto, Junichi Tamura, Kazuhisa Shirayama, Hayato Ida
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Patent number: 12287605Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles each including: a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on surfaces of the toner base particles. A standard deviation of a distance between the resin particles next to each other on the surfaces of the toner base particles is less than 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Ricoh Technology, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Akinori Saitoh, Akio Takei, Toma Takebayashi, Masahiro Yukikawa
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Patent number: 12287606Abstract: A resin binder composition for toners, containing a polyester resin A which is a polycondensate A of raw materials A containing an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid compound, a trivalent or higher polyvalent raw material monomer being at least any one of a trihydric or higher polyhydric alcohol and a tricarboxylic or higher polycarboxylic acid compound, and an amorphous acid modified product A of an ?-olefin polymer having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, the polyester resin A having a softening point of 120° C. to 150° C.; and a toner for electrostatic image development, containing the resin binder composition. The resin binder composition is suitable for a toner for electrostatic image development used in development of latent images formed in electrostatic image development, electrostatic recording and electrostatic printing.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kota Ijichi, Kunihiro Kano, Nobumichi Kamiyoshi
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Patent number: 12282294Abstract: A toner particle includes a core particle including a binder resin, and a plurality of fine particles that are smaller than the core particle and that are attached to a surface of the core particle. The fine particles include silica fine particles, and inorganic fine particles having a band gap energy of 2.5 to 7.0 eV and a relative permittivity of 30 to 100. The toner particle has a content of titanium dioxide of less than 1% by mass.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Akinori Terada, Takahiro Danno, Osamu Ieda
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Patent number: 12282293Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes fluorine-containing particles. The fluorine-containing particles include a fluorine atom at least in surface layers thereof. The amount of the fluorine-containing particles is at least 0.10 parts by mass and no greater than 0.50 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner mother particles. When ultrasonication is performed, a residual amount ratio of remaining fluorine-containing particles is at least 0% by mass and no greater than 20% by mass relative to the amount of the fluorine-containing particles attached to the toner mother particles before the ultrasonication.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masanori Sugahara, Naruo Yabe, Takeshi Arakawa, Takeo Mizobe, Ryota Kobayashi
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Patent number: 12282292Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin, a release agent, a divalent metal, and a trivalent metal, in which the release agent has a domain diameter of 0.5 ?m or greater and 1.5 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Takashi Inukai
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Patent number: 12276937Abstract: Provided is a magenta toner which shows sharper color and higher reflection density than ever before, which is excellent in balance between low-temperature fixability and heat-resistant shelf stability, and which has excellent printing durability. Also provided is a method for producing the magenta toner.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventor: Masashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 12276938Abstract: A toner, comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle has a core-shell structure comprising a core particle and a shell on a surface of the core particle, the shell comprises a polymer having monomer units represented by Formula (I) below, the toner comprises a specific external additive A, the external additive A is at least one selected from the group consisting of silica fine particles and organosilicon polymer fine particles, and a ratio of coverage of a surface of the toner particle with the external additive A is 0.3 area % or higher: in Formula (I), L1 represents —COO(CH2)n— (where n is an integer of 1 to 10), and carbonyl of L1 is bonded to a carbon atom of a main chain; R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group; and R2 to R10 represent each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mayumi Inoue, Takashi Kenmoku, Yoshiaki Shiotari, Shohei Kototani
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Patent number: 12276936Abstract: A resin binder composition for toners, containing a polyester resin A that is a polycondensate of an alcohol component containing 80% by mol or more of an aliphatic diol having 2 or more carbon atoms and 6 or less carbon atoms and a carboxylic acid component containing an aromatic dicarboxylic acid compound and an amorphous acid modified product A of an ?-olefin polymer having 4 or more carbon atoms and 18 or less carbon atoms; and a toner for electrostatic image development, containing these resin binder composition for toners. The resin binder composition for toners of the present invention is suitably used for a toner for electrostatic image development which is usable in development of latent images formed in, for example, electrostatic image development method, electrostatic recording method, electrostatic printing method or the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kota Ijichi, Kunihiro Kano, Nobumichi Kamiyoshi
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Patent number: 12271151Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the binder resin comprises a first resin and a second resin; the first resin is a crystalline resin having a melting point Tp of 50° C. to 90° C.; the second resin is an amorphous resin; in a cross section of the toner particle observed by a transmission electron microscope, the cross section of the toner particle has a matrix-domain structure composed of a matrix comprising the first resin and domains comprising the second resin; an area ratio of the matrix comprising the first resin in a total area of the cross section of the toner particle is 35 to 70 area %; and where a longest direction of each of the domains is taken as a longitudinal direction, a standard deviation of an angle of the longitudinal direction of the domains is 25° or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukihiro Abe, Takeshi Hashimoto, Kazuki Murata, Miki Ueda, Hayato Ida
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Patent number: 12271152Abstract: Here is described a liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising a pigment; a carrier liquid; a resin; a charge director; a fatty acid amide, and a polyalkylene wax. Methods of forming the liquid electrostatic ink compositions, and plastic substrates with the liquid electrostatic ink composition printed thereon, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Hodaya Keisar, Albert Teishev, Liora Damari, Tehila Ben-Ezra, Hanit Marom Tchaicheeyan
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Patent number: 12259683Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains toner particles containing an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin. The ratio Qs1/Qf1 is 1.1 or more and 2.0 or less, where Qf1 is the total area of all endothermic peaks detected during the first temperature rise when the toner particles are analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry after one-day storage under 50° C. conditions, and Qs1 is the total area of all endothermic peaks detected during the first temperature rise when classified toner particles are analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry after one-day storage under 50° C. conditions. The classified toner particles are a fraction of the toner particles in which toner particles having a diameter equal to or larger than the volume-average diameter D50v of the toner particles constitute 10% by number or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Daisuke Ishizuka, Shinya Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12259681Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photoconductor that is less likely to cause transfer ghosting even when mounted in an electrophotographic apparatus with high transfer voltage set for high-speed or cleanerless processes, as well as a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photoconductor, and an electrophotographic apparatus. The electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer. In the electrophotographic photoconductor, the undercoat layer contains a resin binder and a first filler; and the first filler contains zinc oxide particles that are surface-treated with an N-acylated amino acid or an N-acylated amino acid salt.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Fengqiang Zhu, Shinjiro Suzuki, Masaru Takeuchi, Kazuki Nebashi
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Patent number: 12259684Abstract: A magnetic carrier including: a magnetic core; and a coating resin that coats a surface of the magnetic core, wherein the resin coating layer has a thickness of 50 nm or more, a coating resin, which forms the resin coating layer, contains a resin S having an organosilicon polymer moiety, and when a surface and a position at a depth of 20 nm from the surface of the magnetic carrier are analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, an amount of silicon element as determined by the analysis has a ratio within a specific range at respective positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuji Murayama, Hironori Minagawa, Yuto Onozaki, Nobuhiro Yoshida
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Patent number: 12259682Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and an ester compound, wherein the binder resin contains a styrene-acrylic-based resin, the styrene-acrylic-based resin contains a specific unit, the ester compound has a specific structure, and a molar ratio of the specific unit to the ester compound is 0.5 to 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kozue Uratani, Kenta Kamikura, Kosuke Fukudome, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Takuya Mizuguchi, Yuta Komiya
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Patent number: 12253824Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle and a silica particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein an area formed by a polyester resin and an area formed by a styrene-acrylic resin are present on the surface of the toner particle; the silica particle has the number-average particle diameter of 15 to 60 nm; the silica particle has the average pore diameter of 5.0 to 20.0 nm; and the silica particle has the total pore volume of 0.20 to 1.50 cm3/g.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Nakayama, Naoya Isono, Yoshiaki Shiotari, Hirofumi Kyuushima
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Patent number: 12253823Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a plurality of layers containing at least one outermost layer, wherein at least one of the outermost layer contains a polymer having a first structure where at least one carbonyl group is bonded to an aromatic group and a second structure represented by Formula (A).Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Akira Ando, Atsushi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 12252568Abstract: An organic polymeric particle including an optional first monomer comprising a hydrophobic monomer; a second monomer comprising two or more vinyl groups; an optional third monomer comprising an amine; and a vinyl siloxane polymerizable monomer.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Kimberly D. Nosella, Raysa Rodriguez Diaz, Nan-Xing Hu, Majid Kamel, Cuong Vong
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Patent number: 12253825Abstract: The present invention relates to a ferrite particle, containing a crystal phase component containing a perovskite crystal represented by the compositional formula: RZrO3 (provided that R represents an alkaline earth metal element), and having an apparent density in a range represented by the following formula: 1.90?Y?2.45 provided that Y in the formula is the apparent density (g/cm3) of the ferrite particle.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Ishikawa, Tetsuya Uemura
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Patent number: 12248273Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wrinkles have a convex portion in which a linear shape portion having a length of 50 ?m or longer exists, the linear shape portion is parallel to any one of L1 to L150 and L1651 to L1800, and each of L1 to L1800 intersects with the convex portion at a plurality of places, and at least two of the places have different intersection angles; and when height information of the wrinkles is subjected to a frequency analysis, and a two-dimensional power spectrum is obtained, a one-dimensional radial distribution function has at least one local maximum value, and when an angular distribution is calculated from the spectrum at a frequency of the local maximum value, the power values have a particular relationship.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Tomohito Ishida, Shuhei Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Fumiyuki Hiyama, Shuntaro Watanabe