Patents by Inventor Haruhiro NISHITERA

Haruhiro NISHITERA 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: 10379453
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of first particles and a plurality of second particles. The first particles and the second particles each include a core and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The cores of the first particles contain a binder resin and a colorant. The cores of the second particles contain a releasing agent. A standard deviation of a volume-based particle size distribution of the toner is no greater than 1.28. An area ratio of regions of the cores of the second particles that are occupied by the releasing agent in a cross-sectional image of the second particles is at least 50%. A number ratio of the second particles is at least 5% and no greater than 25% relative to a total number of the first particles and the second particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Patent number: 10295923
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The shell layer contains a hydrophilic thermosetting resin and a hydrophobic thermoplastic resin. The hydrophobic thermoplastic resin is exposed at surfaces of the toner particles. In a preferable configuration of the shell layer, a plurality of blocks substantially formed from the hydrophobic thermoplastic resin are connected to one another through a junction portion substantially formed from the hydrophilic thermosetting resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Tsujihiro, Jun Hioki, Haruhiro Nishitera, Ryotaro Komada
  • Patent number: 10289015
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin. The toner particles have a cross-linking structure originating from a high-molecular cross-linking agent. A storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature of 80° C. is at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 5.0×104 Pa. A storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature of 120° C. is at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 1.0×104 Pa. A cross-linking density Nx represented by formula (1) is at least 2.9×10?7 mol/cm3 and no greater than 2.5×10?6 mol/cm3. A loss tangent tan ?x represented by formula (2) is at least 0.05 and no greater than 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: KYCOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Publication number: 20190113857
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of first particles and a plurality of second particles. The first particles and the second particles each include a core and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The cores of the first particles contain a binder resin and a colorant. The cores of the second particles contain a releasing agent. A standard deviation of a volume-based particle size distribution of the toner is no greater than 1.28. An area ratio of regions of the cores of the second particles that are occupied by the releasing agent in a cross-sectional image of the second particles is at least 50%. A number ratio of the second particles is at least 5% and no greater than 25% relative to a total number of the first particles and the second particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Patent number: 10222716
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles (10) each including a toner mother particle (11) and an external additive adhering to a surface of the toner mother particle (11). The toner mother particles (11) contain a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin. The toner particles (10) include, as the external additive, crystal nucleating agent particles (13) containing a crystal nucleating agent for promoting crystallization of the crystalline polyester resin. On a differential scanning calorimetry spectrum of the toner before fixing, an endotherm quantity of a heat absorption peak originating from a crystalline region of the crystalline polyester resin is less than 2.0 mJ/mg. On a differential scanning calorimetry spectrum of the toner after fixing, an endotherm quantity of a heat absorption peak originating from a crystalline region of the crystalline polyester resin is at least 6.0 mJ/mg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Publication number: 20180356747
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The shell layer contains a hydrophilic thermosetting resin and a hydrophobic thermoplastic resin. The hydrophobic thermoplastic resin is exposed at surfaces of the toner particles. In a preferable configuration of the shell layer, a plurality of blocks substantially formed from the hydrophobic thermoplastic resin are connected to one another through a junction portion substantially formed from the hydrophilic thermosetting resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masami TSUJIHIRO, Jun HIOKI, Haruhiro NISHITERA, Ryotaro KOMADA
  • Patent number: 10139744
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core (10) and a shell layer (20) covering a surface of the toner core (10). The shell layer (20) contains a hydrophilic thermosetting resin and a hydrophobic thermoplastic resin. The hydrophilic thermosetting resin is a resin having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of oxazoline groups, carbodiimide groups, and isocyanate groups. The hydrophobic thermoplastic resin is exposed at surfaces of the toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Hioki, Ryotaro Komada, Haruhiro Nishitera, Yusuke Washino
  • Publication number: 20180307151
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin. The toner particles have a cross-linking structure originating from a high-molecular cross-linking agent. A storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature of 80° C. is at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 5.0×104 Pa. A storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature of 120° C. is at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 1.0×104 Pa. A cross-linking density Nx represented by formula (1) is at least 2.9×10?7 mol/cm3 and no greater than 2.5×10?6 mol/cm3. A loss tangent tan ?x represented by formula (2) is at least 0.05 and no greater than 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Patent number: 10088767
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin. The binder resin has an amide bond and an ester bond. An area ratio of a peak originated from C?O stretching of the amide bond to a peak originated from C?O stretching of the ester bond is at least 0.00010 and no greater than 0.02000 in a FT-IR spectrum of the toner obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 80° C. of at least 3.5×104 Pa and no greater than 5.0×104 Pa. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 120° C. of at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 10×104 Pa. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 150° C. of at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 10×104 Pa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Patent number: 10054867
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The toner core contains a crystalline polyester resin, a crosslinked non-crystalline polyester resin, and an uncrosslinked non-crystalline polyester resin. An endothermic energy amount ?HPES is at least 0.0 mJ/mg and no greater than 1.0 mJ/mg. The shell layer contains a resin that has a repeating unit including an oxazoline group. The toner has a glass transition point of at least 10° C. and no greater than 40° C. Loss tangents tan ?60 and tan ?100 of the toner are each at least 1.00 and no greater than 4.00. Loss tangents tan ?160 and tan ?200 of the toner are each at least 0.01 and no greater than 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Publication number: 20180224764
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin. The binder resin has an amide bond and an ester bond. An area ratio of a peak originated from C?O stretching of the amide bond to a peak originated from C?O stretching of the ester bond is at least 0.00010 and no greater than 0.02000 in a FT-IR spectrum of the toner obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 80° C. of at least 3.5×104 Pa and no greater than 5.0×104 Pa. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 120° C. of at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 10×104 Pa. The toner has a storage elastic modulus at 150° C. of at least 1.0×103 Pa and no greater than 10×104 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Publication number: 20180217516
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles (10) each including a toner mother particle (11) and an external additive adhering to a surface of the toner mother particle (11). The toner mother particles (11) contain a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin. The toner particles (10) include, as the external additive, crystal nucleating agent particles (13) containing a crystal nucleating agent for promoting crystallization of the crystalline polyester resin. On a differential scanning calorimetry spectrum of the toner before fixing, an endotherm quantity of a heat absorption peak originating from a crystalline region of the crystalline polyester resin is less than 2.0 mJ/mg. On a differential scanning calorimetry spectrum of the toner after fixing, an endotherm quantity of a heat absorption peak originating from a crystalline region of the crystalline polyester resin is at least 6.0 mJ/mg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Publication number: 20180143555
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The toner core contains a crystalline polyester resin, a crosslinked non-crystalline polyester resin, and an uncrosslinked non-crystalline polyester resin. An endothermic energy amount ?HPES is at least 0.0 mJ/mg and no greater than 1.0 mJ/mg. The shell layer contains a resin that has a repeating unit including an oxazoline group. The toner has a glass transition point of at least 10° C. and no greater than 40° C. Loss tangents tan ?60 and tan ?100 of the toner are each at least 1.00 and no greater than 4.00. Loss tangents tan ?160 and tan ?200 of the toner are each at least 0.01 and no greater than 0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA
  • Patent number: 9864289
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two vinyl compounds including a compound represented by the following formula (1). The toner contains a ring unopened oxazoline group in an amount of at least 0.10 ?mol/g and no greater than 100 ?mol/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Haruhiro Nishitera, Tomoyasu Asakawa
  • Patent number: 9857712
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core and a shell layer. The shell layer is disposed over a surface of the core. The shell layer is substantially formed by a resin. The shell layer has a surface including a plurality of spot regions and a sheet region that is more hydrophobic than the spot regions. The spot regions each are more chargeable than the sheet region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Tsujihiro, Jun Hioki, Ryotaro Komada, Yusuke Washino, Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Publication number: 20170371259
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core (10) and a shell layer (20) covering a surface of the toner core (10). The shell layer (20) contains a hydrophilic thermosetting resin and a hydrophobic thermoplastic resin. The hydrophilic thermosetting resin is a resin having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of oxazoline groups, carbodiimide groups, and isocyanate groups. The hydrophobic thermoplastic resin is exposed at surfaces of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jun HIOKI, Ryotaro KOMADA, Haruhiro NISHITERA, Yusuke WASHINO
  • Patent number: 9791798
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two compounds including a compound represented by formula (1) shown below. In the formula (1), R11 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, and R12 represents an optionally substituted linear alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Patent number: 9753386
    Abstract: A positively chargeable toner contains plural toner particles each containing a core, and a shell layer disposed over the core. The shell layer contains a first resin containing at least one repeating unit having an amide group, and a second resin containing at least one repeating unit having a quaternary ammonium cation. The toner attains a charge amount Q3 after stirring for 3 minutes and attains a charge amount Q30 after stirring for 30 minutes, and “Q30?Q3” and “20 ?C/g?Q3” are both satisfied. Assuming that a second mixture of 100 parts by mass of the standard carrier and 10 parts by mass of the toner charged to a saturated charge amount is born on a development roller to measure a charge amount distribution, an arithmetic mean X and a standard deviation Y of the charge amount distribution satisfy “Y/X?3.5”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro Nishitera
  • Publication number: 20170248860
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two vinyl compounds including a compound represented by the following formula (1). The toner contains a ring unopened oxazoline group in an amount of at least 0.10 ?mol/g and no greater than 100 ?mol/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Haruhiro NISHITERA, Tomoyasu ASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170242360
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two compounds including a compound represented by formula (1) shown below. In the formula (1), R11 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, and R12 represents an optionally substituted linear alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Haruhiro NISHITERA