Patents by Inventor Megumi Shino

Megumi Shino 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: 20230314972
    Abstract: A toner, comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein in a viscoelasticity measurement performed on a molded sample resulting from compression molding of the toner to a disc shape, and in which a strain in the molded sample is caused to vary, at 90° C., a storage elastic modulus G?(1) of the molded sample at 1% strain is 7500 to 30000 Pa, and a storage elastic modulus G?(50) of the molded sample at 50% strain is 950 to 6000 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: TAKESHI HASHIMOTO, MEGUMI SHINO, HAYATO IDA
  • Patent number: 11762307
    Abstract: A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a styrene-acrylic resin, the toner being characterized in that the styrene-acrylic resin is a graft polymer having an aliphatic hydrocarbon compound segment and a styrene-acrylic segment, the styrene-acrylic segment has a specific monomer unit, the melting point of the styrene-acrylic segment is from 30° C. to 80° C., and when the toner is measured using a FT-IR ATR method, the intensity assigned to the styrene-acrylic resin and the intensity assigned to the binder resin satisfy a specific relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Tamura, Takaho Shibata, Ryuji Murayama, Kenta Mitsuiki, Megumi Shino, Hironori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20220413406
    Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an organic silicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and when the toner particle is pelletized and a Young's modulus of the toner measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by TE (MPa) and when one organic silicon polymer particle is separated from the toner and a Young's modulus of the one organic silicon polymer particle measured in a micro compression test at 25° C. is represented by SiE (MPa), TE and SiE satisfies 800?TE?2500 and 1.5?SiE/TE?10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Megumi Shino, Takeshi Hashimoto, Yukihiro Abe, Miki Ueda, Hayato Ida, Kazuki Murata
  • Publication number: 20220404727
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, the crystalline resin has a first monomer unit represented by the following formula (1), the inorganic fine particle is at least one inorganic fine particle selected from the group consisting of a particle containing CaCO3, a particle containing BaSO4, a particle containing Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, and a particle containing Al2Si2O5(OH)4, the inorganic fine particle is treated with a fatty acid, and a content B of the inorganic fine particle in the toner particle is 1.0 mass % or more to 15.0 mass % or less, wherein RZ1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R1 represents an alkyl group having 18 to 36 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Miki Ueda, Takeshi Hashimoto, Kazuki Murata, Megumi Shino, Yukihiro Abe, Hayato Ida
  • Publication number: 20210389688
    Abstract: A negative-charging toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and an organic-inorganic composite fine particle comprising resin fine particles and inorganic fine particles A, wherein the organic-inorganic composite fine particle is negative charging, the organic-inorganic composite fine particle has a structure in which at least a part of the inorganic fine particle A is embedded in the resin fine particle, a number average particle diameter Db of the organic-inorganic composite fine particle is 50 to 350 nm, and a plurality of convex portions derived from the inorganic fine particles A are present on the surface of the organic-inorganic composite fine particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takaho Shibata, Ryuji Murayama, Ryuichiro Matsuo, Yuto Onozaki, Kenta Mitsuiki, Megumi Shino, Hironori Minagawa
  • Patent number: 11131939
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the inorganic fine particle contains aggregated particles; the aggregated particles contain primary particles of at least one metal salt selected from the group consisting of titanate metal salts and zirconate metal salts; the primary particles have a number-average particle diameter of from 15 nm to 55 nm; the aggregated particles have an aggregation diameter of from 80 nm to 300 nm, the aggregated particles have a volume resistivity of from 2×109 ?·cm to 2×1013 ?·cm; and the aggregated particles cover a surface of the toner particle, and a coverage ratio of the aggregated particles with respect to the surface of the toner particle is from 0.3 area % to 10.0 area %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Hama, Yuto Onozaki, Takeshi Hashimoto, Megumi Shino, Ichiro Kanno, Nozomu Komatsu, Hiroyuki Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11131938
    Abstract: A toner comprises a toner particle including a binder resin, and inorganic fine particles A and silica particles B, wherein the inorganic fine particle A has a rectangular parallelepiped shape; an amount of the inorganic fine particles A is 0.3 to 3.0 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the toner particles; a number average particle diameter of the silica particles B is 80 to 200 nm; a fixing ratio of the inorganic fine particle A is 25% to 70%; where a separation amount of the inorganic fine particles A is denoted by YA (mg), and a separation amount of the silica particles is denoted by YB (mg), YA is 3.00 to 18.0, YA and YB satisfy the following formula, YA/YB>0.75, and a surface potential difference C in a rubbing test using the inorganic fine particle A and the binder resin is ?70 V to +70 V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji Murayama, Takaho Shibata, Junichi Tamura, Kenta Mitsuiki, Megumi Shino, Hironori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20210055668
    Abstract: A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a styrene-acrylic resin, the toner being characterized in that the styrene-acrylic resin is a graft polymer having an aliphatic hydrocarbon compound segment and a styrene-acrylic segment, the styrene-acrylic segment has a specific monomer unit, the melting point of the styrene-acrylic segment is from 30° C. to 80° C., and when the toner is measured using a FT-IR ATR method, the intensity assigned to the styrene-acrylic resin and the intensity assigned to the binder resin satisfy a specific relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Junichi Tamura, Takaho Shibata, Ryuji Murayama, Kenta Mitsuiki, Megumi Shino, Hironori Minagawa
  • Publication number: 20200073263
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, and an inorganic fine particle, wherein the inorganic fine particle contains aggregated particles; the aggregated particles contain primary particles of at least one metal salt selected from the group consisting of titanate metal salts and zirconate metal salts; the primary particles have a number-average particle diameter of from 15 nm to 55 nm; the aggregated particles have an aggregation diameter of from 80 nm to 300 nm, the aggregated particles have a volume resistivity of from 2×109 ?·cm to 2×1013 ?·cm; and the aggregated particles cover a surface of the toner particle, and a coverage ratio of the aggregated particles with respect to the surface of the toner particle is from 0.3 area % to 10.0 area %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Masayuki Hama, Yuto Onozaki, Takeshi Hashimoto, Megumi Shino, Ichiro Kanno, Nozomu Komatsu, Hiroyuki Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20200064751
    Abstract: A toner comprises a toner particle including a binder resin, and inorganic fine particles A and silica particles B, wherein the inorganic fine particle A has a rectangular parallelepiped shape; an amount of the inorganic fine particles A is 0.3 to 3.0 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the toner particles; a number average particle diameter of the silica particles B is 80 to 200 nm; a fixing ratio of the inorganic fine particle A is 25% to 70%; where a separation amount of the inorganic fine particles A is denoted by YA (mg), and a separation amount of the silica particles is denoted by YB (mg), YA is 3.00 to 18.0, YA and YB satisfy the following formula, YA/YB>0.75, and a surface potential difference C in a rubbing test using the inorganic fine particle A and the binder resin is ?70 V to +70 V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ryuji Murayama, Takaho Shibata, Junichi Tamura, Kenta Mitsuiki, Megumi Shino, Hironori Minagawa