Patents Examined by Thorl Chea
  • Patent number: 9746818
    Abstract: A process of forming an image includes the steps of: developing an electrostatic latent image with a toner, the latent image being formed through charge of the surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier and exposure of the surface to light; and applying a lubricant onto the surface of the electrostatic latent image carrier. The toner includes a toner matrix particle and an external additive nanoparticle. The external additive nanoparticle comprises a silica-polymer composite nanoparticle. A percentage of atomic silicon present on the surface of the silica-polymer composite nanoparticle satisfies Condition A expressed by Expression: 15.0 atm %?percentage of atomic silicon ({Si/(C+O+Si)}×100)?30.0 atm %. The percentage of atomic silicon is determined from total amounts of atomic carbon, oxygen, and silicon present on the topmost surface of the silica-polymer composite nanoparticle and within 3 nm inwards from the topmost surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Kosuke Nakamura, Futoshi Kadonome, Koji Shibata
  • Patent number: 9738759
    Abstract: A block copolymer includes a crystalline polyester block and an amorphous polyalkylsiloxane block, the block copolymer exhibiting baroplastic behavior. The block copolymer is used in a cold pressure fix toner. A method of making a block copolymer including a crystalline polyester block and an amorphous polyalkylsiloxane block includes heating a mixture of a diacid, a diol, and a carbinol-terminated poly(alkylsiloxane).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guerino G. Sacripante, Kimberly D. Nosella
  • Patent number: 9733581
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes: a conductive holder; and at least a charge producing layer and a charge transport layer disposed on the conductive holder in order. The charge transport layer contains at least a binder resin, a charge transport agent and a p-type metal oxide particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Keiichi Inagaki, Toshiyuki Fujita, Mari Konishi, Daisuke Kodama
  • Patent number: 9733593
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic core particle, and a coating layer that coats surfaces of the magnetic core particle, wherein the coating layer includes a binder resin, thermosetting resin particles, and crosslinked resin particles, and the crosslinked resin particle contains a polymer formed by polymerizing a monomer component including the same monomer as a monomer used in the polymerization of the binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Hasegawa, Norihito Fukushima, Shintaro Anno
  • Patent number: 9709913
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method for processing a liquid electrostatic ink composition, the method comprising: providing an initial liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising chargeable toner particles dispersed in a first liquid carrier, removing at least some of the liquid carrier from the initial liquid electrostatic ink composition using supercritical fluid extraction to provide a concentrated composition comprising the chargeable toner particles, adding a second liquid carrier to the concentrated composition to form a final liquid electrostatic ink composition. Also disclosed herein is a liquid electrostatic ink composition producible according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Mark Sandler, Daniel Skvirsky, Inna Tzomik, Hannoch Ron
  • Patent number: 9709914
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes a carrier liquid and a toner particle whose surface is treated by a polyamine, wherein an amount of sodium ion to be eluted in 1 g of the toner particles is 0.04 mg or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Inaba, Takako Kobayashi, Daisuke Yoshino, Akira Imai, Masahiro Oki, Koji Horiba, Hiroyuki Moriya
  • Patent number: 9703218
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images contains a first resin and a second resin. The first resin is a crystalline polyester resin composed of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit. The first resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5000 to 100000. The second resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5000 to 60000. The second resin is a polyester resin composed of a crystalline segment and an amorphous segment. The crystalline segment has a weight average molecular weight of 200 to 3000 and is composed of a dicarboxylic acid unit and a dialcohol unit. In the toner, a specific carbon number relationship is present between each unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomomi Oshiba, Ken Ohmura, Kaori Matsushima, Noboru Ueda, Ito Koga, Noriyuki Kimpara
  • Patent number: 9703216
    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]?1.10??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiko Tsuchida, Wakashi Iida, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Toru Takahashi, Daisuke Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 9696646
    Abstract: Suspension polymerization toner of a core-shell structure with dense charges comprises core-shell composite particles prepared by mixing suspension dispersion liquid of toner core particles with shell monomer emulsion and resin-type CCA dispersion liquid, and carrying out a polymerization reaction to form rigid shell layers with dense charges coated on the soft toner core particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN LEPUTAI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhijun Liu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Huan Zhang, Xiao Yuan, Hong Meng, Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 9690224
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains a plurality of toner particles. Each of the toner particles contains, in a surface portion thereof, at least one hydrophobic salt in a state where a cation derived from a first surfactant is ionically bonded to an anion derived from a second surfactant. A ratio of a total mass of the at least one hydrophobic salt to a mass of the toner is 1 ppm or more and 5,000 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Patent number: 9665020
    Abstract: A charge transporting layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polysiloxane resin having a terminal structure represented by the formula (1), at least one selected from the group consisting of a polycarbonate resin A having a structural unit represented by the formula (A) and a polyarylate resin B having a structural unit represented by the formula (B), and a charge transporting substance, wherein the content of the siloxane structure in the polysiloxane resin is not less than 0.5% by mass and not more than 10% by mass based on the total mass of whole resin in the charge transporting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Miura, Yota Ito, Takashi Anezaki, Hirofumi Kumoi
  • Patent number: 9658545
    Abstract: Composite materials such as composite particles have a solid non-elastomeric continuous phase made of an organic polymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 25° C. Dispersed within this solid non-elastomeric continuous phase are many multi-compartment porous chemically crosslinked elastomeric particles that have a mode particle size of at least 1 ?m and up to and including 10 ?m. The composite particles can be used as toner particles in electrophotographic imaging methods to provide fused toner images and especially stacked fused toner images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Mridula Nair, Joseph Salvatore Sedita, Peter David Rollinson
  • Patent number: 9639014
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes an electrostatic charge image developing carrier containing a ferrite particle and an electrostatic charge image developing toner containing metallic particles whose resistance is from 1010 ?cm to 1013 ?cm in an electric field of 10,000 V/cm, wherein the electrostatic charge image developing carrier satisfies the following formula (1): 0.9?RB/RA?1.0 (1), wherein RA represents the resistance of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier in an electric field of 2,400 V/cm, and RB represents the resistance of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier in an electric field of 19,200 V/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Tsurumi, Motoko Sakai, Takuro Watanabe, Masaaki Usami
  • Patent number: 9639015
    Abstract: Disclosed is toner particles having controlled and tailorable fusing characteristics. In particular, there is provided toner particles comprising styrene acrylate which have specific shape characteristics that allow for tailorable fusing characteristics without generating a detrimental effect on the blocking characteristics of such toners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan A. Morales-Tirado, David J. W. Lawton, Edward G. Zwartz, Vincenzo G. Marcello, Yolanda E. Maldonado, David R. Kurceba
  • Patent number: 9632441
    Abstract: The present invention is a toner that has toner particles that have a surface layer that contains an organosilicon polymer, wherein this organosilicon polymer has a specific substructure and the ratio [ST3], in a 29Si-NMR measurement of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of the toner particles, of the peak area for this substructure to the total peak area for the organosilicon polymer satisfies the relationship ST3?0.40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Yuhei Terui, Taiji Katsura, Katsuyuki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 9625844
    Abstract: Provided is a toner containing toner particles, each of which includes a binder resin containing a polyester as a main component, a colorant, and a wax, in which the binder resin includes a block polymer in which a segment capable of forming a crystalline structure and a segment incapable of forming a crystalline structure are bonded, the toner has a maximum endothermic peak from the binder resin, as determined by differential scanning calorimetry measurement, with a peak temperature in a specific range and with an endothermic quantity in a specific range, and the wax is an ester wax having a functionality of 3 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takaaki Kaya, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Toshifumi Mori, Ayako Okamoto, Kenji Aoki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Atsushi Tani, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 9625848
    Abstract: A toner, wherein the toner is obtained by washing a toner particle dispersion liquid which is obtained by adding cellulase to a dispersion slurry, and the dispersion slurry is obtained from a dispersion liquid or an emulsion of a toner material-containing oil phase in an aqueous medium, and wherein the dispersion liquid or the emulsion contains a cellulosic dispersion stabilizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousuke Suzuki, Sayaka Yuasa, Sayuri Kojima, Takahiro Kadota, Yasuaki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 9612549
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a cartridge with a black toner of reduced dielectric loss and improved tribo charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daryl W Vanbesien, Majid Kamel, Cuong Vong, Suxia Yang, Kimberly Nosella, Richard P N Veregin, Tie Hwee Ng
  • Patent number: 9606464
    Abstract: A resin composition for a toner including a polyester resin and a colorant, wherein the polyester resin has A(10)-A(180) of 70 or greater, where A(10) (%) is a transmittance of light having a wavelength of 500 nm through a mixture of 20 parts by mass of the polyester resin added to 80 parts by mass of ethyl acetate and stirred at 25° C. for 10 minutes, and A(180) (%) is the transmittance after the mixture is left to stand for 3 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Kazumi Suzuki, Tatsuya Morita, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Asahina
  • Patent number: 9606466
    Abstract: The present invention is a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and a charge control agent, wherein the binder resin includes a resin having a polyester unit with at least one aliphatic compound condensed to the terminal thereof, the at least one aliphatic compound being selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms and aliphatic monoalcohols each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms; and the charge control agent includes a specific compound (a pyrazolone monoazo metal compound).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Yoshihiro Ogawa, Daisuke Tsujimoto, Wakashi Iida