Patents by Inventor Kazutsuna SASAKI

Kazutsuna SASAKI 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: 11960243
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles that include a binder resin and a release agent and have an exposure ratio of the release agent of 15% or more and 30% or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an arithmetic average particle size of 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, the resin cover layers have an average thickness of 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces of the carrier three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe, Karin Sakai
  • Publication number: 20240094651
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a core material and a resin coating layer that contains strontium titanate particles and coats the core material, in which a content of the strontium titanate particles is 10% by mass or more and 55% by mass or less with respect to a total mass of the resin coating layer, and a proportion of strontium atoms within a surface of the resin coating layer, the proportion being determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 0.2 at % or more and 1.0 at % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230314977
    Abstract: A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a resin coating layer that contains nitrogen-containing silica particles and nitrogen-containing resin fine particles and covers the core material. The content of the nitrogen-containing silica particles is from 10% by mass to 55% by mass inclusive based on the total mass of the resin coating layer. The nitrogen-containing resin fine particles have a volume average particle diameter of from 100 nm to 250 nm inclusive. The mass ratio P/S of the mass P of the nitrogen-containing resin fine particles to the mass S of the nitrogen-containing silica particles is from 0.15 to 0.55 inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11747744
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, an average thickness of the resin layer is 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jumpei Iwasaki, Yasuo Kadokura, Shintaro Anno, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Satoshi Miura
  • Publication number: 20230259049
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: performing first aggregation involving aggregating at least resin particles and releasing agent particles to prepare a dispersion A that contains first aggregated particles that will form a core; performing second aggregation involving adding, to the dispersion A, a dispersion B that contains shell resin particles that will form a shell so as to cause the shell resin particles to adhere to the first aggregated particles and form second aggregated particles; and performing fusion involving heating and fusing the second aggregated particles to form toner particles, in which a solid component concentration (A) of the dispersion A and a solid component concentration (B) of the dispersion B satisfy a relationship, (A)<(B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazutsuna SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230098900
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a release agent. In sections of the toner particles in which the sections of the toner particles have an area St in total and, among sections of domains of the release agent, sections of domains having long diameters of 10 nm or more and 500 nm or less have a total area Sa and sections of domains having long diameters of 1500 nm or more and 3000 nm or less have a total area Sb, an area fraction Sa/St is 2% or more and an area fraction Sb/St is 20% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna SASAKI, Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Takashi Inukai
  • Publication number: 20230098553
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin, a release agent, a divalent metal, and a trivalent metal, in which the release agent has a domain diameter of 0.5 ?m or greater and 1.5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yoshimasa FUJIHARA, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Takashi INUKAI
  • Patent number: 11561483
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an exposed area ratio of the magnetic particles is 0.1% or more and 4.0% or less, an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yasuo Kadokura, Shintaro Anno, Satoshi Miura, Jumpei Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11556071
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle, and an amount of the coating resin layer that is peeled off from the magnetic particle when the carrier dispersed in water is irradiated with ultrasonic waves, relative to a coating amount of the coating resin layer before ultrasonic irradiation, is 800 mass ppm or more and 2,000 mass ppm or less, and a difference between an initial coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having no travel history and a coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having a travel history and being taken out from an electrostatic charge image developer, relative to the initial coating amount of the coating resin layer, is 0 mass ppm or more and 3,000 mass ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro Watanabe, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Karin Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220373924
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles and an external additive, wherein an amount of the external additive that is loose relative to a total mass of the external additive is 5 mass % or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sakiko TAKEUCHI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Takuro WATANABE, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220373921
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles that include a binder resin and a release agent and have an exposure ratio of the release agent of 15% or more and 30% or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an arithmetic average particle size of 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, the resin cover layers have an average thickness of 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces of the carrier three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220373920
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes core particles provided by dispersing a magnetic powder in a resin and resin cover layers covering the core particles, wherein the resin cover layers have a surface coverage of 96 area % or more, the resin cover layers include 10 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less of inorganic particles relative to a total mass of the resin cover layers, and the inorganic particles in surfaces of the carrier have a surface exposure ratio of 6 atomic % or more and 15 atomic % or less determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220373923
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer containing: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle, in which the toner particle has a surface property index value of 2.0 or more and 2.8 or less; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio BIA of a surface area B to a planar view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the planar view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE, Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20220373922
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer contains: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle; and the toner particle has a surface property index value of 1.0 or more and less than 2.0; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio B/A of a surface area B to a plane view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the plane view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220308492
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier, contains: a magnetic particle; and a coating resin layer coating the magnetic particle and containing inorganic particles, in which an area ratio of the inorganic particles that is a ratio of a total area of the inorganic particles to an area of the coating resin layer in a cut surface of the coating resin layer along a thickness direction of the coating resin layer is 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220308485
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains a silica particle, and a ratio of Si on a surface of the coating resin layer, determined by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 6 atom % or more and 12 atom % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Karin Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220308493
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle, and an amount of the coating resin layer that is peeled off from the magnetic particle when the carrier dispersed in water is irradiated with ultrasonic waves, relative to a coating amount of the coating resin layer before ultrasonic irradiation, is 800 mass ppm or more and 2,000 mass ppm or less, and a difference between an initial coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having no travel history and a coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having a travel history and being taken out from an electrostatic charge image developer, relative to the initial coating amount of the coating resin layer, is 0 mass ppm or more and 3,000 mass ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro Watanabe, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Karin Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220308491
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains an inorganic particle, and the following relation 1 is satisfied: 0<(C?A)/(B?A)?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220299898
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: performing first aggregation that involves aggregating at least resin particles and releasing agent particles contained in a dispersion to prepare a dispersion A containing first aggregated particles; performing second aggregation that involves adding a dispersion B containing shell resin particles to the dispersion A and aggregating the shell resin particles to form second aggregated particles; and heating and fusing the second aggregated particles to form fused particles. A total of 40 mmol or more and 190 mmol or less of a basic compound is added, per kilogram of toner particles to be obtained, from a time aggregation starts to terminate in the second aggregation to a time a temperature is elevated to a fusion temperature in the heating and fusing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna SASAKI, Daisuke NOGUCHI, Kazuhiko NAKAMURA, Hiroshi NAKAZAWA, Yuji ISSHIKI
  • Publication number: 20220299904
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: performing first aggregation by aggregating at least resin particles and releasing agent particles contained in a dispersion so as to prepare a dispersion A containing first aggregated particles; performing second aggregation by adding a dispersion B containing shell resin particles to the dispersion A and aggregating the shell resin particles to form second aggregated particles; and heating and fusing the second aggregated particles so as to form fused particles. Here, pH(A) and pH(B) satisfy pH(A)<pH(B), where pH(A) and pH(B) respectively represent a pH of the dispersion A and a pH of the dispersion B in the second aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna SASAKI, Daisuke NOGUCHI, Kazuhiko NAKAMURA, Hiroshi NAKAZAWA