Patents by Inventor Kozue Uratani

Kozue Uratani 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: 10310397
    Abstract: The toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the release agent contains an ester wax, and the peak top temperature of the maximum endothermic peak of the ester wax as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter is from 65° C. to 85° C., the ester wax satisfies specific conditions and the crystalline polyester satisfies specific conditions, the toner contains from 3.0 parts by mass to 20.0 parts by mass of the crystalline polyester per 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and the mass ratio of the ester wax to crystalline polyester is from 25/75 to 75/25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sano, Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
  • Publication number: 20190155181
    Abstract: Provided is a toner containing a toner particle including a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant. The softening point of the toner is at least 80° C. and not more than 140° C. The average circularity of the toner is at least 0.940. The integrated value of stress in the toner at 150° C. which is measured by using a tackiness tester is at least 78 g·m/sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani
  • Patent number: 10228627
    Abstract: Provided is a toner containing a toner particle including a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant. The softening point of the toner is at least 80° C. and not more than 140° C. The average circularity of the toner is at least 0.940. The integrated value of stress in the toner at 150° C. which is measured by using a tackiness tester is at least 78 g·m/sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani
  • Publication number: 20190041762
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a colorant: and an external additive, wherein (1) the average circularity of the toner is at least 0.960; (2) the fixing ratio of the external additive on the toner particle is from 75% to 100%; and (3) in a differential curve obtained by the differentiation, by load, of a load-displacement curve where the horizontal axis is load (mN) and the vertical axis is displacement (?m), the load-displacement curve being provided by measurement of the strength of the toner by a nanoindentation procedure, a load A that provides a maximum value in the differential curve in a load region from 0.20 mN to 2.30 mN is from 1.15 mN to 1.50 mN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshiba, Shohei Tsuda, Mariko Yamashita, Kozue Uratani, Ryo Nagata
  • Publication number: 20190041763
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein (1) an average circularity of the toner is at least 0.960, (2) an onset temperature T? (° C.) of a storage elastic modulus E? of the toner, as determined by a powder dynamic viscoelastic measurement, is from 50° C. to 70° C., and (3) in a differential curve obtained by differentiation, by load, of a load-displacement curve provided by measurement of the strength of the toner by a nanoindentation procedure, with the horizontal axis being load (mN) and the vertical axis being displacement (?m), the load X that provides the maximum value in the differential curve in the load region from 0.20 mN to 2.30 mN is from 1.00 mN to 1.50 mN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Shohei Tsuda, Daisuke Yoshiba, Kozue Uratani, Mariko Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9964874
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a release agent, wherein a cross-sectional image of the toner is observed using a scanning transmission electron microscope, domains of the crystalline polyester are present in the cross-sectional image of the toner, the domains have a number-average major diameter of at least 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, the number of the domains is at least 8 and not more than 500, and the domains are present at least 60 number % and not more than 100 number % from an outline of the cross-sectional image to 25% of the distance between the outline and the centroid of the cross-sectional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9857707
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including: a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an inorganic fine particle, in which the toner particle has an average circularity of 0.960 or more, and in which the toner satisfies the formula (1) and the formula (2). Fp(A)?25.0 nN??Formula (1) (Fp(B)?Fp(A))/Fp(A)?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Tsuda, Takashi Matsui, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani, Keisuke Tanaka, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9841692
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a wax, and a crystalline polyester, wherein two or more peak tops for crystallization peaks are present in a temperature range from 40° C. to 80° C. in a first DSC curve obtained by a process or cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 0.5° C./min, and using ?H(0.5) for the exothermic quantity for the peak on the lowest temperature side of these crystallization peaks and using ?H(100) for the exothermic quantity of the crystallization peak on the lowest temperature side in a second DSC curve obtained by a process of cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 100° C./min, the ratio [?H(100)/?H(0.5)] is at least 2.0 and not more than 6.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9804514
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a toner, the method including a treatment process of treating a coloring particle including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a wax in an aqueous medium, wherein, the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pp) in the crystalline polyester is denoted by Tp (° C.) and the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pw) in the wax is denoted by Tw (° C.), the Tp and Tw satisfy a specific relationship, and the treatment process has a specific cooling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
  • Publication number: 20170160662
    Abstract: Provided is a toner containing a toner particle including a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant. The softening point of the toner is at least 80° C. and not more than 140° C. The average circularity of the toner is at least 0.940. The integrated value of stress in the toner at 150° C. which is measured by using a tackiness tester is at least 78 g·m/sec.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani
  • Publication number: 20170160661
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a release agent, wherein a cross-sectional image of the toner is observed using a scanning transmission electron microscope, domains of the crystalline polyester are present in the cross-sectional image of the toner, the domains have a number-average major diameter of at least 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, the number of the domains is at least 8 and not more than 500, and the domains are present at at least 60 number % and not more than 100 number % from an outline of the cross-sectional image to 25% of the distance between the outline and the centroid of the cross-sectional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20170160657
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a toner, the method including a treatment process of treating a coloring particle including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a wax in an aqueous medium, wherein, the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pp) in the crystalline polyester is denoted by Tp (° C.) and the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pw) in the wax is denoted by Tw (° C.), the Tp and Tw satisfy a specific relationship, and the treatment process has a specific cooling step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
  • Publication number: 20170160660
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a wax, and a crystalline polyester, wherein two or more peak tops for crystallization peaks are present in a temperature range from 40° C. to 80° C. in a first DSC curve obtained by a process or cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 0.5° C./min, and using ?H(0.5) for the exothermic quantity for the peak on the lowest temperature side of these crystallization peaks and using ?H(100) for the exothermic quantity of the crystallization peak on the lowest temperature side in a second DSC curve obtained by a process of cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 100° C./min, the ratio [?H(100)/?H(0.5)] is at least 2.0 and not more than 6.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9658546
    Abstract: Provided is toner comprising toner particle containing binder resin and colorant and silica fine particle, wherein: the silica fine particle contains silica fine particle A and silica fine particle B; silica fine particle A has a number average particle diameter of primary particle of 5 nm or more and 20 nm or less; silica fine particle B has a number average particle diameter of primary particle of 80 nm or more and 200 nm or less; and silica fine particle B has a half width of a peak of primary particle of 25 nm or less, in a weight-based particle size distribution, and wherein when the toner is measured by adhesive force-measuring method by using polycarbonate thin film, an adhesion of the silica fine particle A is 0.5% by area or less relative to 100% by area of the total area of the polycarbonate thin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Tanaka, Takashi Matsui, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani, Shohei Tsuda, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9625842
    Abstract: A magnetic toner including: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin, a magnetic body, and a release agent; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain metal oxide fine particles, the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles, wherein the magnetic toner has a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles and a coverage ratio B of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles fixed to the magnetic toner particles' surface that reside in prescribed numerical value ranges; the binder resin contains a styrene resin; the re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kozue Uratani, Michihisa Magome, Yusuke Hasegawa, Shuichi Hiroko
  • Publication number: 20160378003
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having improved durability. The magnetic toner includes magnetic toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, in which a deformation amount when a load of 9.8×10?4 N is applied to one particle of the magnetic toner in a microcompression test is 3.0 ?m or less, in which the magnetic toner has a surface free energy of 5 mJ/m2 or more and 20 mJ/m2 or less, and in which the magnetic toner has a melt viscosity ?? at 100° C. of 5.0×103 Pa·s or more and 1.0×105 Pa·s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi Arimura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20160334723
    Abstract: A magnetic toner including: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin, a magnetic body, and a release agent; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain metal oxide fine particles, the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles, wherein the magnetic toner has a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles and a coverage ratio B of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles fixed to the magnetic toner particles' surface that reside in prescribed numerical value ranges; the binder resin contains a styrene resin; the re
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kozue Uratani, Michihisa Magome, Yusuke Hasegawa, Shuichi Hiroko
  • Publication number: 20160266509
    Abstract: The toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the release agent contains an ester wax, and the peak top temperature of the maximum endothermic peak of the ester wax as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter is from 65° C. to 85° C., the ester wax satisfies specific conditions and the crystalline polyester satisfies specific conditions, the toner contains from 3.0 parts by mass to 20.0 parts by mass of the crystalline polyester per 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and the mass ratio of the ester wax to crystalline polyester is from 25/75 to 75/25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sano, Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
  • Patent number: 9442416
    Abstract: Provided is a developing apparatus, including toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, a toner carrier for carrying the toner, and a regulating member for regulating a layer thickness of the toner carried by the toner carrier. The toner carrier is placed to be brought into contact with the electrostatic latent image bearing member. The toner carrier includes a substrate, an elastic layer, and a surface layer containing a urethane resin. The urethane resin has a partial structure derived from a reaction between a compound represented by the structural formula (1) and a polyisocyanate. The toner contains toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine particles. The toner has a weight average particle diameter (D4) of from 9.5 ?m to 14.0 ?m. The toner has a porosity of 50 or more and 56 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michihisa Magome, Takashi Matsui, Kozue Uratani, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Masaki Yamada, Minoru Ito
  • Patent number: 9423711
    Abstract: A magnetic toner including: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin, a magnetic body, and a release agent; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain metal oxide fine particles, the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles, wherein the magnetic toner has a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles and a coverage ratio B of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles fixed to the magnetic toner particles' surface that reside in prescribed numerical value ranges; the binder resin contains a styrene resin; the re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kozue Uratani, Michihisa Magome, Yusuke Hasegawa, Shuichi Hiroko