Patents by Inventor Hiroko Kobayashi

Hiroko Kobayashi 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: 20250102930
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an outermost layer that contains a charge transport material and a binder resin, in which the binder resin includes a polyester resin PA having an elastic deformation rate XA of 53.0% or greater and a polycarbonate resin PB having an elastic deformation rate XB that is less than the elastic deformation rate XA of the polyester resin PA by a range of 5% or greater and 12% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Kenta IDE, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yoichi KIGOSHI, Yuki OYAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250102929
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, in which an outermost surface layer is a layer containing a charge transport material and a binder resin and having a breaking energy of 10 mJ/mm3 or greater, and an outer peripheral surface has a dynamic friction coefficient of 0.5 or greater and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoichi KIGOSHI, Keisuke KUSANO, Yuki OYAMADA, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Kenta IDE
  • Publication number: 20240419091
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer has an average thickness of 30 ?m or greater, the charge transport layer contains a polyarylate resin, and an absorption spectrum measured by peeling off the photosensitive layer and dissolving the photosensitive layer in tetrahydrofuran satisfies Expression (1) and Expression (2), Iu ? 0.95 × I ? m Expression ? ( 1 ) 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20240411237
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer, in which the undercoat layer contains a binder resin and at least one perinone compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by Formula (1) and a compound represented by Formula (2), the photosensitive layer contains a polyester resin (1) having at least one dicarboxylic acid unit (A) selected from the group consisting of a dicarboxylic acid unit (A2) represented by Formula (A2), a dicarboxylic acid unit (A3) represented by Formula (A3), and a dicarboxylic acid unit (A4) represented by Formula (A4), and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), and a mass proportion of the polyester resin (1) in the photosensitive layer is 15% by mass or greater, in Formula (1), R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, and R18 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aralkyl g
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Ryosuke FUJII, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yuki Oyamada, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20240411236
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin having a constitutional unit containing biphenyl represented by Formula (1), and an amount of an aromatic carboxylic acid halide in the charge transport layer is 15×10?8 mol/g or less per unit mass of the charge transport layer, in Formula (1), j represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, j pieces of R11's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, k represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, and k pieces of R12's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJII, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Patent number: 12117741
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive base body and a multilayered photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive base body and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, wherein the charge transport layer is an uppermost surface layer and contains a charge transport material, a polyester resin, and a compound (T) represented by Formula (T) below, the polyester resin includes a polyester resin (1) including at least one selected from the group consisting of a diol unit (P1) represented by Formula (P1), a diol unit (P2) represented by Formula (P2), a diol unit (P3) represented by Formula (P3), a diol unit (P5) represented by Formula (P5), and a diol unit (P6) represented by Formula (P6), the polyester resin (1) further includes a unit including a biphenyl skeleton, and end groups of the polyester resin (1) do not include fluorine atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20240329558
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive base body and a multilayered photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive base body and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, wherein the charge transport layer is an uppermost surface layer and contains a charge transport material, a polyester resin, and a compound (T) represented by Formula (T) below, the polyester resin includes a polyester resin (1) including at least one selected from the group consisting of a diol unit (P1) represented by Formula (P1), a diol unit (P2) represented by Formula (P2), a diol unit (P3) represented by Formula (P3), a diol unit (P5) represented by Formula (P5), and a diol unit (P6) represented by Formula (P6), the polyester resin (1) further includes a unit including a biphenyl skeleton, and end groups of the polyester resin (1) do not include fluorine atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20240288788
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin (1) having a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), and an amount of a diol represented by Formula (1) in the charge transport layer is 10 ppm or less, in Formula (A), n1 represents 1, 2, or 3, n1 pieces of m1's each independently represent 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, m1 pieces of Ra1's each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 or more and 10 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 12 or less carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1 or more and 6 or less carbon atoms, in Formula (B), Rb1 and Rb2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 12 or less
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke FUJII
  • Publication number: 20240248419
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, at least one of a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit containing biphenyl represented by Formula (1), and an aromatic dicarboxylic acid represented by Formula (2), in Formula (1), j represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, j pieces of R11's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, k represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, and k pieces of R12's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, in Formula (2), p represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, p pieces of R21's each independently represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, q represents an integer of 0 or greater and 4 or less, q pieces of R22's each in
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJII, Tomoya Sasaki, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Patent number: 12043722
    Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive paste which leaves less fine undissolved matter when dissolved in an organic solvent and thus can be easily filtrated, which has excellent printability, and which can exhibit excellent surface smoothness after printing. Provided is a conductive paste used for forming an electrode of a multilayer ceramic capacitor, the conductive paste containing: a polyvinyl acetal resin; an organic solvent; and a conductive powder, the polyvinyl acetal resin having a wave number A (cm?1) of a peak within a range of 3,100 to 3,700 cm?1 in an IR absorption spectrum measured using an infrared spectrophotometer; and a hydroxy group content (mol %), the wavenumber A of the peak and the hydroxy group content satisfying relations of the following formulas (1) and (2): [(3,470?A)/Hydroxy group content]?5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobayashi, Kazuto Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240085818
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that accommodates a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles and an external additive, and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the el
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiteru YAMADA, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240077809
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, at least one of a polyester resin (PEz) or a polycarbonate resin (PCz) that has at least one of a structure (Z1) represented by Formula (Z1) or a structure (Z2) represented by Formula (Z2) at at least one terminal, and a resin (X) that has at least one of a unit (X1) represented by Formula (X1) or a unit (X2) represented by Formula (X2), a mass proportion of the resin (X) in a total amount of the polyester resin (PEz), the polycarbonate resin (PCz), and the resin (X) in the charge transport layer is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20240053689
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer or a single layer type photosensitive layer that is a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, in which the charge transport layer or the single layer type photosensitive layer is an outermost layer and contains a charge transport material and a binder resin containing a polyester resin having an aromatic ring, the charge transport layer or the single layer type photosensitive layer has an average thickness of 28 ?m or greater and 50 ?m or less, and a weight reduction ratio of the charge transport layer or the single layer type photosensitive layer from 30° C. to 175° C. in thermogravimetric analysis is 0.1% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, kosuke NARITA, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Ryosuke FUJII
  • Patent number: 11892780
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that accommodates a developer containing a toner which contains toner particles and an external additive, and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that includes a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the el
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Yamada, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20240036488
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material, a polyester resin, and a polycarbonate resin, and the polyester resin includes the following polyester resin (1), polyester resin (1): a polyester resin having at least one selected from the group including a diol unit (B3) represented by Formula (B3), a diol unit (B5) represented by Formula (B5), a diol unit (B6) represented by Formula (B6), a diol unit (B7) represented by Formula (B7), a diol unit (B8) represented by Formula (B8), a diol unit (B9) represented by Formula (B9), a diol unit (B10) represented by Formula (B10), and a diol unit (B11) represented by Formula (B11), in Formula (B3), Rb113 and Rb213 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a linear alkyl group having 1 or more and 3 or less
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Yuto Okazaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20240036487
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer or a single layer type photosensitive layer that is a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, in which the charge transport layer or the single layer type photosensitive layer is an outermost layer and contains a charge transport material, a polyester resin having a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A), and a compound that has a molecular weight of 255 or greater, has a phenol skeleton in which a primary carbon atom or a secondary carbon atom is bonded to one ortho position and a tertiary carbon atom or a quaternary carbon atom is bonded to the other ortho position, and has no linear alkylene structure having 4 or more carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJII, Tomoya SASAKI, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Yuto OKAZAKI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20230288824
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin having a structure represented by Formula (1) at a terminal and a charge transport material, and in a case where a weight-average molecular weight Mw of the polyester resin is defined as A (×10,000), a value of a ratio M1/M2 of a mass M1 of the charge transport material to a mass M2 of an entire charge transport layer is defined as Cs, and an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as Ds (?m), expressions of 7?A?40, 0.28?Cs?0.55, 27?Ds?50, and 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, Tomoya SASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Kohei HASHIMOTO, Hiroko KOBAYASHI, Kosuke NARITA
  • Publication number: 20230288847
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer in this order, in which the charge transport layer contains at least one resin selected from a polyester resin or a polycarbonate resin, and in a case where a Martens hardness and an indentation hardness, which are acquired by an indentation test performed on the charge transport layer to a depth of 0.5 ?m, are respectively defined as HM (N/mm2) and nIT (N/mm2), Relational Equation (0) is satisfied, an elastic deformation modulus is 45% or greater and 70% or less, and a tensile elastic modulus of the charge transport layer is 2,300 MPa or greater and 5,000 MPa or less, nIT=a×HM?b(a=2±0.2,b=100±20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroko Kobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Kohei Hashimoto, Ryosuke Fujii, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20230280668
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a charge transport material and a polyester resin, and in a case where an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as As (?m) and an average thickness of the undercoat layer is defined as Bs (?m), expressions 27?As?50, 10?Bs?40, and 0.70?As/Bs?4.80 are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomoya SASAKI, Kohei Hashimoto, Ryosuke Fujii, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki, Kosuke Narita
  • Publication number: 20230266684
    Abstract: An image forming unit includes a photoreceptor and a charging member that comes into contact with a surface of the photoreceptor and charges the photoreceptor, in which the photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a lamination type photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate and including a charge generation layer and a charge transport layer, the charge transport layer contains at least one of a polyester resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring or a polycarbonate resin that has a constitutional unit having an aromatic ring, the charging member includes a support member and an elastic layer disposed on the support member, and the elastic layer has a storage elastic modulus G? of 5.0 MPa or less at a frequency of 100 Hz in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement under a temperature condition of 24° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke NARITA, Tomoya Sasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Kohei Hashimoto, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yuto Okazaki