Patents by Inventor Keiji Karube

Keiji Karube 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: 11669027
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt including at least a base layer and a surface layer on or above the base layer, the surface layer including a binder resin and perfluoropolyether (PFPE), having a thickness of 2 ?m or more. PFPE is removed to obtain a PFPE-removed surface layer, the PFPE-removed surface layer has pores having openings at an outer surface thereof. When assuming that the PFPE-removed surface layer is a solid-surface layer, a ratio of a total volume of the pores contained in the PFPE-removed surface layer to a volume of the solid-surface layer is 8 to 25%. A ratio of a sum of areas of the openings to a unit area (1 ?m2) of the outer surface of the PFPE-removed surface layer is 10 to 35%, and the number of the openings per unit area (1 ?m2) of the outer surface of the PFPE-removed surface layer is 10 to 500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Karube, Keisuke Abe, Masahiro Takenaga, Kenji Onuma
  • Publication number: 20230081479
    Abstract: An electrophotographic belt including at least a base layer and a surface layer on or above the base layer, the surface layer including a binder resin and perfluoropolyether (PFPE), having a thickness of 2 ?m or more. PFPE is removed to obtain a PFPE-removed surface layer, the PFPE-removed surface layer has pores having openings at an outer surface thereof. When assuming that the PFPE-removed surface layer is a solid-surface layer, a ratio of a total volume of the pores contained in the PFPE-removed surface layer to a volume of the solid-surface layer is 8 to 25%. A ratio of a sum of areas of the openings to a unit area (1 ?m2) of the outer surface of the PFPE-removed surface layer is 10 to 35%, and the number of the openings per unit area (1 ?m2) of the outer surface of the PFPE-removed surface layer is 10 to 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Keiji Karube, Keisuke Abe, Masahiro Takenaga, Kenji Onuma
  • Patent number: 10831134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic belt which contributes to stable formation of an electrophotographic image of high quality. The electrophotographic belt includes a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer contains a binder resin, a perfluoropolyether and a comb-shaped graft copolymer, the comb-shaped graft copolymer is a copolymer of an acrylate or methacrylate having a fluoroalkyl group and a methacrylate macromonomer having a polymethyl methacrylate as a side chain, the comb-shaped graft copolymer has a number average molecular weight of 11000 or higher and 15000 or lower, and the comb-shaped graft copolymer has a peak-top molecular weight of 24000 or higher and 40000 or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiji Karube
  • Publication number: 20190004454
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic belt which contributes to stable formation of an electrophotographic image of high quality. The electrophotographic belt includes a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer contains a binder resin, a perfluoropolyether and a comb-shaped graft copolymer, the comb-shaped graft copolymer is a copolymer of an acrylate or methacrylate having a fluoroalkyl group and a methacrylate macromonomer having a polymethyl methacrylate as a side chain, the comb-shaped graft copolymer has a number average molecular weight of 11000 or higher and 15000 or lower, and the comb-shaped graft copolymer has a peak-top molecular weight of 24000 or higher and 40000 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: KEIJI KARUBE
  • Patent number: 9250546
    Abstract: A member for electrophotography having a multilayer structure or a single-layer structure, including an outermost layer which satisfies the following A, B and C: A: the outermost layer has perfluoropolyether and a binder resin, and in the outermost layer, the ratio of the number of fluorine atoms to the number of carbon atoms is 0.10 or more and 0.40 or less; B: in a 19F-NMR spectrum of the outermost layer, the relaxation time T2 of a peak derived from CF2 moieties of perfluoropolyether is 13 milliseconds or more at 22° C.; and C: the total sum of the contents of CF3 moieties, CF2 moieties, and CF moieties in the binder resin is 5% by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Kameyama, Kenji Onuma, Rieko Sakamoto, Yasushi Shimizu, Koichi Sato, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Akira Watanabe, Maho Tanaka, Shigeki Takishita, Hiroshi Tominaga, Keiji Karube, Takenori Sueoka
  • Publication number: 20140377695
    Abstract: A member for electrophotography having a multilayer structure or a single-layer structure, including an outermost layer which satisfies the following A, B and C: A: the outermost layer has perfluoropolyether and a binder resin, and in the outermost layer, the ratio of the number of fluorine atoms to the number of carbon atoms is 0.10 or more and 0.40 or less; B: in a 19F-NMR spectrum of the outermost layer, the relaxation time T2 of a peak derived from CF2 moieties of perfluoropolyether is 13 milliseconds or more at 22° C.; and C: the total sum of the contents of CF3 moieties, CF2 moieties, and CF moieties in the binder resin is 5% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Naoto Kameyama, Kenji Onuma, Rieko Sakamoto, Yasushi Shimizu, Koichi Sato, Kimihiro Yoshimura, Akira Watanabe, Maho Tanaka, Shigeki Takishita, Hiroshi Tominaga, Keiji Karube, Takenori Sueoka
  • Publication number: 20120043882
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a rear plate and a face plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiji Karube