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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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).