Patents by Inventor Erina SAITO

Erina SAITO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230108440
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner has toner particles that contain a binder resin, a release agent, and resin particles, in which a loss coefficient tan ? (1%) of the resin particles at a melting temperature Tw of the release agent and a strain of 1% and a loss coefficient tan ? (100%) of the resin particles at the melting temperature Tw of the release agent and a strain of 100% satisfy the following Expression (1) and the following Expression (2). 0.02?tan ?(1%)?0.5??Expression (1): 0.4?tan ?(100%)?tan ?(1%)?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230103824
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin and resin particles and an external additive that contains inorganic particles, in which a loss coefficient tan?a of the resin particles at 40° C. and 0.1 rad/s satisfies 0.1 < tan?a < 1.0, a loss coefficient tan?b of the resin particles at 40° C. and 10 rad/s satisfies 1.3 < tan?b < 3.0, and in a case where a strain of 0.005% is applied to the toner at 40° C., a stress relaxation time ? of the toner satisfies 5 seconds < ? < 500 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tsutomu FURUTA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230099316
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner that has a binder resin that contains a crystalline resin and toner particles that contain resin particles, in which a loss coefficient tan ?S (30) at 30° C. of the resin particles is 1 or more, and a loss coefficient tan ?S (50) at 50° C. of the resin particles is less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Tsutomu FURUTA
  • Patent number: 10935900
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ishizuka, Narumasa Sato, Yuka Kawamoto, Erina Saito, Norimasa Ozora, Kotaro Yoshihara, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20200292950
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Narumasa Sato, Yuka Kawamoto, Erina Saito, Norimasa Ozora, Kotaro Yoshihara, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10578989
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes: a toner that includes toner particles which contain a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and form a sea-island structure which includes a sea portion containing the polyester resin and an island portion containing the styrene (meth)acrylic resin on a surface of the toner particle, and has an exposure rate of the styrene (meth)acrylic resin in a range of from about 5 atom % to about 20 atom %; and an external additive, and a carrier whose fluidity and bulk density under environment of a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 50% satisfy Expression: 65.0?fluidity×bulk density?72.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Yoshihara, Daisuke Ishizuka, Narumasa Sato, Yuka Kawamoto, Erina Saito, Takahisa Tatekawa, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10520841
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle and an external additive. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent that includes a hydrocarbon wax. The binder resin includes a vinyl resin and a hybrid resin in which an amorphous resin unit other than polyester resins and a crystalline polyester resin unit are chemically bound together. The toner particle has hybrid resin domains and release agent domains. An average distance Lhyb from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the hybrid resin domains and an average distance Lwax from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the release agent domains satisfy Lwax<Lhyb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa Sato, Erina Saito, Yuka Kawamoto, Noriyuki Mizutani, Kotaro Yoshihara, Daisuke Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 10466605
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a polyester resin which includes a condensed polymer of a polyvalent carboxylic acid and a polyol which contains ethylene glycol in an amount of from about 40% by weight to about 90% by weight with respect to a total amount of the polyol, and an external additive that contains silica particles in which a product of a volume average particle diameter D50 (nm) and a BET specific surface area SA (m2/g) is from about 1.4×103 to about 5.0×103.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa Sato, Kotaro Yoshihara, Daisuke Ishizuka, Takahisa Tatekawa, Noriyuki Mizutani, Erina Saito
  • Publication number: 20190294063
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle and an external additive. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent that includes a hydrocarbon wax. The binder resin includes a vinyl resin and a hybrid resin in which an amorphous resin unit other than polyester resins and a crystalline polyester resin unit are chemically bound together. The toner particle has hybrid resin domains and release agent domains. An average distance Lhyb from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the hybrid resin domains and an average distance Lwax from the surface of the toner particle to the centers of the release agent domains satisfy Lwax<Lhyb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa SATO, Erina SAITO, Yuka KAWAMOTO, Noriyuki MIZUTANI, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 10191399
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes first toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant and second toner particles containing a binder resin and containing or not containing a colorant, wherein a content PCa of the colorant contained in the first toner particles is from 4% by weight to 20% by weight with respect to the first toner particles, a content PCb of the colorant contained in the second toner particles is from 0% by weight to 2% by weight with respect to the second toner particles, and a weight ratio of the first toner particles and the second toner particles (weight of the first toner particles/weight of the second toner particles) is from 50/50 to 98/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Mizutani, Kotaro Yoshihara, Erina Saito, Narumasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20180275541
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a polyester resin which includes a condensed polymer of a polyvalent carboxylic acid and a polyol which contains ethylene glycol in an amount of from about 40% by weight to about 90% by weight with respect to a total amount of the polyol, and an external additive that contains silica particles in which a product of a volume average particle diameter D50 (?m) and a BET specific surface area SA (m2/g) is from about 1.4×103 to about 5.0×103.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa SATO, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Noriyuki MIZUTANI, Erina SAITO
  • Publication number: 20180275543
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes: a toner that includes toner particles which contain a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and form a sea-island structure which includes a sea portion containing the polyester resin and an island portion containing the styrene (meth)acrylic resin on a surface of the toner particle, and has an exposure rate of the styrene (meth)acrylic resin in a range of from about 5 atom % to about 20 atom %; and an external additive, and a carrier whose fluidity and bulk density under environment of a temperature of 25° C. and a humidity of 50% satisfy Expression: 65.0?fluidity×bulk density?72.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Narumasa SATO, Yuka KAWAMOTO, Erina SAITO, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Noriyuki MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 9715185
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle including a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin, and an external additive including a poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particle. The amount of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles is about 0.05 parts by mass or more and about 1.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner particle. The ratio D50P/D50T of the number-average diameter D50P of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles to the number-average diameter D50T of the toner particles satisfies 0.03?D50P/D50T?0.15. The proportion of the styrene-(meth)acrylic resin in a resin component deposited on the surface of the toner particle is about 5 atom % or more and about 30 atom % or less as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuka Kawamoto, Kotaro Yoshihara, Daisuke Ishizuka, Asafumi Fujita, Narumasa Sato, Erina Saito
  • Publication number: 20170184988
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes first toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant and second toner particles containing a binder resin and containing or not containing a colorant, wherein a content PCa of the colorant contained in the first toner particles is from 4% by weight to 20% by weight with respect to the first toner particles, a content PCb of the colorant contained in the second toner particles is from 0% by weight to 2% by weight with respect to the second toner particles, and a weight ratio of the first toner particles and the second toner particles (weight of the first toner particles/weight of the second toner particles) is from 50/50 to 98/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki MIZUTANI, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Erina SAITO, Narumasa SATO
  • Patent number: 9575428
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles. The toner particles contain a binder resin, a release agent, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin. The binder resin contains a polyester resin. About 70% or more of all release agent is present within about 800 nm from surfaces of the toner particles. The styrene-(meth)acrylic resin is present in an amount of about 5 to about 25 atomic percent of the resin components in the surfaces of the toner particles as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa Sato, Kotaro Yoshihara, Daisuke Ishizuka, Asafumi Fujita, Erina Saito, Yuka Kawamoto, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20160357120
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle including a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin, and an external additive including a poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particle. The amount of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles is about 0.05 parts by mass or more and about 1.0 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner particle. The ratio D50P/D50T of the number-average diameter D50P of the poly[alkyl (meth)acrylate] particles to the number-average diameter D50T of the toner particles satisfies 0.03?D50P/D50T?0.15. The proportion of the styrene-(meth)acrylic resin in a resin component deposited on the surface of the toner particle is about 5 atom % or more and about 30 atom % or less as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuka KAWAMOTO, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Asafumi FUJITA, Narumasa SATO, Erina SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160349643
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes a toner particle that includes a binder resin including an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin and that includes a styrene-alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymer. The glass transition temperature Tg(A) of the styrene-alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymer and the glass transition temperature Tg(B) of the amorphous polyester resin satisfy Relational expression (1): Tg(B)?10?Tg(A)?Tg(B)+2.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Erina SAITO, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Yuka KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160342101
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles. The toner particles contain a binder resin, a release agent, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin. The binder resin contains a polyester resin. About 70% or more of all release agent is present within about 800 nm from surfaces of the toner particles. The styrene-(meth)acrylic resin is present in an amount of about 5 to about 25 atomic percent of the resin components in the surfaces of the toner particles as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa SATO, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Asafumi FUJITA, Erina SAITO, Yuka KAWAMOTO, Noriyuki MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20160313660
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin having a polyester resin and a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid alkyl copolymer resin, a release agent having a hydrocarbon release agent, and an oligomer which includes a styrene structure and whose content is in a range of 1% by weight to 6% by weight with respect to toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Erina SAITO, Noriyuki MIZUTANI, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Yuki TAKAMIYA, Narumasa SATO, Yuka KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9470994
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin including a polyester resin, a release agent including a hydrocarbon wax, and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin, wherein 70% or more of the release agent with respect to the entire release agent is present within 800 nm from the surface of the toner particles, wherein the styrene (meth)acrylic resin forms domains having an average diameter of 0.3 ?m to 0.8 ?m in the toner particles, and wherein a number ratio of the domains included in a range of the average diameter±0.1 ?m is less than 65%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Yoshihara, Noriyuki Mizutani, Tomoaki Tanaka, Eisuke Iwazaki, Asafumi Fujita, Narumasa Sato, Erina Saito