Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kagawa

Hiroki Kagawa 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: 20240110087
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including an aluminum substrate, and a water-repellent coating provided on a surface of the aluminum substrate, wherein the aluminum substrate has an anodized film on the surface, and the water-repellent coating is a film formed of a fluoropolyether group-containing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Michiru KAGAWA, Masamichi Morita, Ryo Inoue, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nagano, Masatoshi Nose
  • Publication number: 20240069457
    Abstract: The toner contains binder resin-containing toner particles and silica fine particle S1, wherein the weight-average particle diameter of the toner is 4.0-15.0 ?m, both inclusive, peaks originating with the silica fine particle S1 are observed in 29 Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particle S1, and, in the spectrum obtained by 29Si CP/MAS NMR or 29Si DD/MAS NMR, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D1 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, the peak area of a peak corresponding to the D2 unit structure in the silica fine particle S1, and the peak area of a peak corresponding to the Q unit structure in the silica fine particle S1 satisfy a prescribed relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: RYUJI MURAYAMA, SHIN KITAMURA, TORU TAKAHASHI, DAISUKE TSUJIMOTO, RYUICHIRO MATSUO, HITOSHI SANO, NOBUYUKI FUJITA, SHUJI YAMADA, YUKA GUNJI, TAKAKUNI KOBORI, YOSHIHIRO OGAWA, ATSUHIKO OHMORI, HIROKI KAGAWA, KEISUKE ADACHI, TOMOKO SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20230408946
    Abstract: A toner comprises a toner particle and silica fine particles, wherein, fragment ions of a D unit structure are observed in time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry measurement of the silica fine particles, in a titration operation of the silica fine particles using NaOH, the titer is within a specific range, an area of a peak from ?25 to ?15 ppm in 29Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particles is denoted by D, the sum of the areas of peaks from ?140 to 100 ppm is denoted by S, and an area of a peak from more than ?19 ppm to ?17 ppm or less is denoted by D1, the specific surface area of the silica fine particles, D, D1, and S satisfy specific relationships, and a specific amount of a specific polyvalent metal element is present on the surface of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: KAZUYUKI SATO, TOMOHISA SANO, TOHRU HIRAMATSU, HIROKI KAGAWA, SHOHEI SHIBAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230408945
    Abstract: A toner including a polyester resin-including toner particle and a silica fine particle, wherein fragment ions corresponding to a D unit structure are observed in TOF-SIMS measurement of the silica fine particle, where the silica fine particle is dispersed in a specific mixed liquid and a titration operation using sodium hydroxide is performed, the titer is within a specific range, where an area of a peak having a peak top within the range from ?25 to ?15 ppm in 29Si-NMR measurement of the silica fine particle is denoted by D and an area of a peak having a peak top within the range from more than ?19 ppm to ?17 ppm or less is denoted by D1, the specific surface area of the silica fine particle, D and D1 satisfy specific relationships, and the polyester resin is present on the surface of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: SHOHEI SHIBAHARA, TOMOHISA SANO, HIROKI KAGAWA, TOHRU HIRAMATSU, KAZUYUKI SATO
  • Publication number: 20230408942
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a magnetic body, and a silica fine particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein fragment ions corresponding to a D unit structure are observed in a specific measurement; when the silica fine particle is dispersed in a mixed solution of ethanol and aqueous solution of NaCl, followed by a titration operation using sodium hydroxide, a titer is within a specific range; in a chemical shift obtained by a specific measurement, with D as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range from ?25 to ?15 ppm, and with D1 as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range of more than ?19 ppm and ?17 ppm or less, D and D1 are in a specific ratio; and the magnetic body is present on the surface of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: HIROKI KAGAWA, TOMOHISA SANO, TOHRU HIRAMATSU, KAZUYUKI SATO, SHOHEI SHIBAHARA
  • Patent number: 11809132
    Abstract: A toner is provided, which has a toner particle that contains a binder resin, and organosilicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle. A methanol concentration a (vol %) of the organosilicon polymer particle in a wettability test and a methanol concentration b (vol %) of the toner particle in a wettability test satisfy Expression (I) below: |a?b|?25??(I), and an adhesion index of the organosilicon polymer particle on a polycarbonate film, calculated on the basis of Expression (II) below, is not more than 3.5: Adhesion index=area ratio c of the organosilicon polymer particle having migrated to the polycarbonate film/coverage ratio d of the organosilicon polymer particle on the surface of the toner particle×100??(II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Koji Nishikawa, Tomoya Nagaoka, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20230350319
    Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle including a release agent, and a silica fine particle on a surface of the toner particle. Fragment ions corresponding to a D unit structure are observed in a specific measurement; when the silica fine particle is dispersed in a mixed solution of ethanol and aqueous solution of NaCl, followed by a titration operation using sodium hydroxide a titer is within a specific range; in a chemical shift obtained by a specific measurement, with D as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range from -25 to -15 ppm, and with D1 as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range of more than -19 ppm and -17 ppm or less, D and D1 are in a specific ratio. The release agent is present on the surface of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: TOHRU HIRAMATSU, TOMOHISA SANO, HIROKI KAGAWA, KAZUYUKI SATO, SHOHEI SHIBAHARA
  • Publication number: 20230350320
    Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle, and a silica fine particle on a surface of the toner particle. Fragment ions corresponding to a D unit structure are observed in a specific measurement; when the silica fine particle is dispersed in a mixed solution of ethanol and aqueous solution of NaCl, followed by a titration operation using sodium hydroxide, a titer is within a specific range; in a chemical shift obtained by a specific measurement, with D as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range from -25 to -15 ppm, and with D1 as an area of a peak having a peak top present in a range of more than -19 ppm and -17 ppm or less, D and D1 are in a specific ratio; and a vinyl-based resin having a specific structure is present on the surface of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: TOMOHISA SANO, HIROKI KAGAWA, TOHRU HIRAMATSU, KAZUYUKI SATO, SHOHEI SHIBAHARA
  • Patent number: 11796930
    Abstract: A magnetic toner comprising a magnetic toner particle including a binder resin, a magnetic body and a crystalline polyester, wherein in cross-sectional observation of the magnetic toner particle using a transmission electron microscope, a variation coefficient CV3 of an occupied area ratio of the magnetic body when a cross section of the magnetic toner particle is divided by a square grid having a side of 0.8 ?m is from 40.0% to 80.0%, and assuming that a storage elastic modulus at 40° C. is taken as E?(40) [Pa] and a storage elastic modulus at 85° C. is taken as E?(85) [Pa], the storage elastic moduli being obtained in a powder dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the magnetic toner, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied. E?(85)?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20230122974
    Abstract: A magnetic toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a magnetic body, wherein the binder resin comprises a styrene-acrylic resin, the styrene-acrylic resin comprises a monomer unit represented by Formula (1): where, in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R2 represents a linear alkyl group having CB carbon atoms, CB being an integer from 10 to 15; the magnetic body comprises an alkyl group having CM carbon atoms, on a surface of the magnetic body, CM being an integer from 4 to 20; CB and CM satisfy Formula (3): |CM?CB|?10??(3), and in a cross-sectional observation of the magnetic toner using a transmission electron microscope, a coefficient of variation of an occupied area ratio of the magnetic body in a specific square grid, is 80.0% or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Kenta Kamikura, Kosuke Fukudome, Atsuhiko Ohmori
  • Publication number: 20220373906
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a hydrocarbon wax; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles include silica fine particles surface-treated with specific polydimethylsiloxanes, a total amount of trimethylsilanol in the silica fine particles is from 1.0 ppm to 5.0 ppm, where a standard value of an amount of ions of an ester group is measured by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, one or more peaks of the standard value are present within a range of 100 nm from the surface of the toner particle, and the maximum value A(d max) among the peaks of the standard value and the standard value A(0) on the surface of the toner particle satisfy the following relationships: 1.05?A(d max)/A(0)?5.00, A(0)?0.010.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Atsuhiko Ohmori, Hiroki Kagawa, Keisuke Adachi, Tomoko Sugita
  • Patent number: 11415902
    Abstract: A toner comprising a resin that contains an amorphous segment and a crystalline segment as a binder resin, wherein a proportion of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of a resin component is from 40% by mass to 80% by mass; in differential scanning calorimeter measurement of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter, where a temperature of a maximum endothermic peak is denoted by Tm [° C.] and an endothermic quantity is denoted by H(I) [J/g], the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: 55.0?Tm?80.0??(1) 10.0?H(I)?80.0??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20220107573
    Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle containing a resin component including a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin. In a cross-sectional observation of the toner particle, a domain-matrix structure which comprises a matrix containing the crystalline resin and domains containing the amorphous resin is observed. The maximum endothermic peak temperature Tm of the toner determined by DSC is 50° C. to 80° C. When the storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature 5° C. lower than Tm is G?(?5) (Pa), and the storage elastic modulus of the toner at a temperature 5° C. higher than Tm is G?(+5) (Pa), G?(?5) and G?(+5) satisfy inequality (1), and when the maximum loss tangent of the toner in a temperature range of from 50° C. to 130° C. is tan ? (Max), tan ? (Max) satisfies inequality (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Akiyama, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Kagawa, Shuhei Moribe
  • Publication number: 20220107574
    Abstract: A toner including toner particles having a resin component containing a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin, in which the resin component contains a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component, and the content of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component with respect to the content of the resin component is 5.0% to 80.0% by mass, wherein a maximum endothermic peak temperature of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component is 55.0 to 80.0° C., and the amount of heat absorption in the maximum endothermic peak of the tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component is 10.0 to 80.0 Pa, and toner particles have a structure which comprises a matrix containing the crystalline resin and domains containing the amorphous resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Shuhei Moribe, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20210302856
    Abstract: A toner is provided, which has a toner particle that contains a binder resin, and organosilicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle. A methanol concentration a (vol %) of the organosilicon polymer particle in a wettability test and a methanol concentration b (vol %) of the toner particle in a wettability test satisfy Expression (I) below: |a?b|?25??(I), and an adhesion index of the organosilicon polymer particle on a polycarbonate film, calculated on the basis of Expression (II) below, is not more than 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Koji Nishikawa, Tomoya Nagaoka, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 11112713
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and in viscoelasticity measurement of the toner with Tp being a peak temperature of an endothermic peak derived from the crystalline resin in DSC of the toner, given G?(Tp?5, 0.01 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp?5° C. and a frequency of 0.01 Hz, G?(Tp?5, 10 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp?5° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz, and G?(Tp?30, 10 Hz) as a storage modulus at a temperature of Tp?30° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz, the following formulae are satisfied: G?(Tp?30,10 Hz)/G?(Tp?5,0.01 Hz)?1.40 G?(Tp?5,10 Hz)/G?(Tp?5,0.01 Hz)?2.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Akiyama, Shuhei Moribe, Hiroyuki Tomono, Tatsuya Saeki, Hiroki Kagawa, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Katsuhisa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11112709
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, the storage elastic modulus Gt? (150) of the toner at 150° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa, the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first monomer unit derived from a first polymerizable monomer and a second monomer unit derived from a second polymerizable monomer different from the first polymerizable monomer, the first polymerizable monomer is selected from specific (meth)acrylic acid esters, the contents of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit in the polymer A are within specific ranges, and the SP values of the first monomer unit and second monomer unit are within specific ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuya Saeki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa, Takashi Matsui
  • Publication number: 20210255557
    Abstract: A magnetic toner comprising a magnetic toner particle including a binder resin, a magnetic body and a crystalline polyester, wherein in cross-sectional observation of the magnetic toner particle using a transmission electron microscope, a variation coefficient CV3 of an occupied area ratio of the magnetic body when a cross section of the magnetic toner particle is divided by a square grid having a side of 0.8 ?m is from 40.0% to 80.0%, and assuming that a storage elastic modulus at 40° C. is taken as E?(40) [Pa] and a storage elastic modulus at 85° C. is taken as E?(85) [Pa], the storage elastic moduli being obtained in a powder dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the magnetic toner, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied. E?(85)?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Hiroki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 11078824
    Abstract: A cooling system includes an electric pump, a cooling target temperature sensor, a coolant temperature sensor, and an electronic control unit. The electric pump pumps a coolant to a circulation channel connected to an inlet and an outlet of a cooling channel in which heat is exchanged with a cooling target. The cooling target temperature sensor detects a cooling target temperature. The coolant temperature sensor is arranged upstream of the inlet in the circulation channel, and detects a coolant temperature. The electronic control unit controls driving of the electric pump so that a discharge flow rate of the electric pump matches a target flow rate, and sets the target flow rate using an equation based on a reference value obtained by dividing a difference between the cooling target temperature and a target cooling temperature of the cooling target by a difference between the cooling target temperature and the coolant temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 10969704
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a magnetic body, wherein the binder resin contains a polymer A having a first monomer unit and a second monomer unit, the first polymerizable monomer is at least one selected from the group consisting of the (meth)acrylic acid esters having C18-36 alkyl groups, a content of the first monomer unit and a content of the second monomer unit based on the total moles of all monomer units in the polymer A are respectively 5.0 to 60.0 mol % and 20.0 to 95.0 mol %, and assuming that an SP value of the first monomer unit and the second monomer unit are taken as SP11 (J/cm3)0.5 and SP21(J/cm3)0.5, respectively, 3.00?(SP21?SP11)?25.00 is satisfied, and an oil absorption of the magnetic body is 5 to 40 ml/100 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kagawa, Shuntaro Watanabe, Hiroki Akiyama, Tatsuya Saeki, Takashi Matsui