Patents by Inventor Futoshi Kadonome

Futoshi Kadonome 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).

  • Patent number: 10698329
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer containing toner particles and carrier particles, wherein the toner particles contain at least silica particles or alumina particles as an external additive; the carrier particles contain core material particles and a coating resin layer covering a surface of the core particles; the coating resin layer contains metal oxide particles; an element measured by XPS (photoelectron spectroscopy) of the carrier particle is at least Si or Al; and a content of Si or Al in the carrier particle is in the range of 1 to 6 at % with respect to the total elements constituting the carrier particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai, Junichi Furukawa, Ikuko Sakurada
  • Patent number: 10606183
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
  • Publication number: 20190384201
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer containing toner particles and carrier particles, wherein the toner particles contain at least silica particles or alumina particles as an external additive; the carrier particles contain core material particles and a coating resin layer covering a surface of the core particles; the coating resin layer contains metal oxide particles; an element measured by XPS (photoelectron spectroscopy) of the carrier particle is at least Si or Al; and a content of Si or Al in the carrier particle is in the range of 1 to 6 at % with respect to the total elements constituting the carrier particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Futoshi KADONOME, Keiji ARAI, Junichi FURUKAWA, Ikuko SAKURADA
  • Patent number: 10509338
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image containing: toner particles having toner mother particles and an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles; and carrier particles, wherein the external additive contains alumina particles; the alumina particles are subjected to a surface modification with a hydrophobilizing agent; among the hydrophobilizing agent existing on the surface of the alumina particles after the surface modification, a ratio of the hydrophobilizing agent in a state of being liberated from the surface is 20% or less when extraction treatment is performed under a predetermined condition; the alumina particles have a number average primary particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm; and the carrier particles have a resin covering layer, and the resin covering layer is formed with an alicyclic (meth)acrylate monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ikuko Sakurada, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190278192
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
  • Publication number: 20190243272
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image containing: toner particles having toner mother particles and an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles; and carrier particles, wherein the external additive contains alumina particles; the alumina particles are subjected to a surface modification with a hydrophobilizing agent; among the hydrophobilizing agent existing on the surface of the alumina particles after the surface modification, a ratio of the hydrophobilizing agent in a state of being liberated from the surface is 20% or less when extraction treatment is performed under a predetermined condition; the alumina particles have a number average primary particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm; and the carrier particles have a resin covering layer, and the resin covering layer is formed with an alicyclic (meth)acrylate monomer
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Ikuko SAKURADA, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai
  • Patent number: 10338489
    Abstract: The present invention provides a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic charge image, which includes a toner and a carrier, wherein the toner contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin as binder resins and an inorganic particle as external additive particle, and the carrier has a surface to which silica particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 30 nm are attached in an amount in the range of the following Equation (1): 5 at %?S1?10 at %, wherein S1 represents a concentration of Si element as measured by XPS and indicates an amount of silica on the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai, Junichi Furukawa
  • Patent number: 10168630
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images, including toner particles containing an external additive on surfaces of toner matrix particles. The external additive contains at least a lanthanum-containing titanate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome
  • Publication number: 20180364602
    Abstract: The present invention provides a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic charge image, which includes a toner and a carrier, wherein the toner contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin as binder resins and an inorganic particle as external additive particle, and the carrier has a surface to which silica particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 to 30 nm are attached in an amount in the range of the following Equation (1): 5 at %?S1?10 at %, wherein S1 represents a concentration of Si element as measured by XPS and indicates an amount of silica on the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Futoshi KADONOME, Keiji ARAI, Junichi FURUKAWA
  • Patent number: 10156803
    Abstract: Provided is a carrier for electrostatic charge image development which provides a two-component developer having a high electric charge amount, a suppressed variation in an electric charge amount caused by an environmental change, and excellent durability, even if a low temperature fixable toner is used. A carrier for electrostatic charge image development of the present invention includes: carrier particles in which a core particle surface is coated with a coating material containing a resin, wherein the coating material contains phosphorus element, and the resin contains structural units derived from an alicyclic (meth)acrylic acid ester compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Uchino, Futoshi Kadonome, Koji Shibata
  • Publication number: 20180267416
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images, including toner particles containing an external additive on surfaces of toner matrix particles. The external additive contains at least a lanthanum-containing titanate compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Satoshi UCHINO, Shinya OBARA, Futoshi KADONOME
  • Patent number: 9946180
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image includes: toner base particles containing a hybrid crystalline polyester resin having a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment chemically bonded to each other and an amorphous resin; and an external additive including fatty acid metal salt particles, wherein a volume median diameter of the fatty acid metal salt particles is from 3.0 to 5.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kadonome, Satoshi Uchino, Kosuke Nakamura, Koji Shibata
  • Patent number: 9915884
    Abstract: The toner of the present invention contains: a toner base particle, and a silica particle and a fatty acid metal salt particle adhering to a surface of the toner base particle. The toner base particle contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin. The toner particle has an average circularity of 0.945 to 0.965. The silica particle has a volume average particle size of 70 to 300 nm, and has an average circularity of 0.5 to 0.9. The fatty acid metal salt particle has a median diameter based on a volume of 0.50 to 2.00 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Noriyuki Kimpara, Ikuko Sakurada, Takuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9904194
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner of the present invention includes toner base particles and particles containing a fatty acid metal salt. The toner base particles contain a crystalline resin containing a segment of a first resin and a segment of a second resin chemically bonded to each other and an amorphous resin containing at least the second resin. The crystalline resin is a hybrid crystalline polyester resin. The first resin is a crystalline polyester resin. The second resin is an amorphous resin. The volume-based median diameter (Da) of the toner base particles and the volume-based median diameter (Db) of the particles containing the fatty acid metal salt satisfy the relations represented by Expressions (1) and (2) below: 0.5 ?m?Db?2.0 ?m??Expression (1) 0.1 Db/Da?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kimpara, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Ikuko Sakurada, Takuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9823596
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner including a toner mother particle containing a colorant and a binder resin comprising a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin; and an external additive. The external additive includes an inorganic fine particle having a number average major axis in a range of 50 to 100 nm, an average aspect ratio in a range of 3 to 10, and a volume resistivity in a range of 1×1010 to 1×1012 ?·cm in primary particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kadonome, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Noriyuki Kimpara, Ikuko Sakurada, Takuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170329248
    Abstract: Provided is a carrier for electrostatic charge image development which provides a two-component developer having a high electric charge amount, a suppressed variation in an electric charge amount caused by an environmental change, and excellent durability, even if a low temperature fixable toner is used. A carrier for electrostatic charge image development of the present invention includes: carrier particles in which a core particle surface is coated with a coating material containing a resin, wherein the coating material contains phosphorus element, and the resin contains structural units derived from an alicyclic (meth)acrylic acid ester compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kosuke NAKAMURA, Satoshi UCHINO, Futoshi KADONOME, Koji SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170307991
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image includes: toner base particles containing a hybrid crystalline polyester resin having a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment chemically bonded to each other and an amorphous resin; and an external additive including fatty acid metal salt particles, wherein a volume median diameter of the fatty acid metal salt particles is from 3.0 to 5.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Futoshi KADONOME, Satoshi Uchino, Kosuke Nakamura, Koji Shibata
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170123332
    Abstract: The toner of the present invention contains: a toner base particle, and a silica particle and a fatty acid metal salt particle adhering to a surface of the toner base particle. The toner base particle contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin. The toner particle has an average circularity of 0.945 to 0.965. The silica particle has a volume average particle size of 70 to 300 nm, and has an average circularity of 0.5 to 0.9. The fatty acid metal salt particle has a median diameter based on a volume of 0.50 to 2.00 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi UCHINO, Shinya OBARA, Futoshi KADONOME, Noriyuki KIMPARA, Ikuko SAKURADA, Takuya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20170123334
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner of the present invention includes toner base particles and particles containing a fatty acid metal salt. The toner base particles contain a crystalline resin containing a segment of a first resin and a segment of a second resin chemically bonded to each other and an amorphous resin containing at least the second resin. The crystalline resin is a hybrid crystalline polyester resin. The first resin is a crystalline polyester resin. The second resin is an amorphous resin. The volume-based median diameter (Da) of the toner base particles and the volume-based median diameter (Db) of the particles containing the fatty acid metal salt satisfy the relations represented by Expressions (1) and (2) below: 0.5 ?m?Db?2.0 ?m??Expression (1) 0.1 Db/Da?0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyuki KIMPARA, Satoshi UCHINO, Shinya OBARA, Futoshi KADONOME, Ikuko SAKURADA, Takuya TAKAHASHI