Patents by Inventor Naoki Yoshie

Naoki Yoshie 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: 20160085170
    Abstract: A liquid developer contains an insulating liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulating liquid. The toner particles have a resin and a coloring agent. The resin contains at least 10 mass % and at most 40 mass % of an aliphatic polyester resin and at least 60 mass % and at most 90 mass % of an aromatic polyester resin. The resin has an acid value not less than 20 mgKOH/g and not more than 100 mgKOH/g. A difference in acid value between the aliphatic polyester resin and the aromatic polyester resin is not less than 0 mgKOH/g and not more than 10 mgKOH/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Keiko MOMOTANI, Masahiro ANNO, Naoki YOSHIE
  • Patent number: 9169414
    Abstract: Toner particles contained in a liquid developer have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin satisfies Equations (1) to (2) below. In Equations (1) to (2) below, x represents a number average molecular weight of the second resin and y represents a urethane group concentration (mass %) in the second resin. ?0.00003x+2.03?y??0.00003x+6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukiko Uno, Satoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yoshie, Kenji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9152068
    Abstract: In a liquid developer in which toner particles are dispersed in an insulating liquid, the toner particles have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin particles further contain a pigment and a dispersant for pigment, and solubility of the dispersant for pigment in the insulating liquid is not higher than 10 mass % at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Sho Kim, Satoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yoshie, Kenji Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150277257
    Abstract: A liquid developer in which toner particles are dispersed in an insulating liquid, the toner particles having such a core-shell structure that shell particles containing a shell resin are attached to or cover surfaces of core particles containing a core resin, the core resin having an acid group and an acid dissociation constant not smaller than 2.90 and not greater than 8.00, and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The toner particles can have a volume average particle size not smaller than 0.01 ?m and not greater than 100 ?m and a coefficient of variation of volume distribution not lower than 1% and not higher than 100%. This liquid developer has excellent fixability which allows adaptation to various recording materials, can be fixed in a wide temperature range, and is extremely low in deterioration in fixability during storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukiko Uno, Satoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yoshie, Miyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20150253683
    Abstract: An image formation method includes a step of preparing an electrostatic latent image developer, a transferring step, and a fixation step. The step of preparing an electrostatic latent image developer includes a step of preparing an electrostatic latent image developer containing toner particles having prescribed viscoelasticity characteristics. The fixation step includes steps of heating a recording medium and fixing the toner particles to the recording medium at a pressure not lower than 200 kPa and not higher than 800 kPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunitomo SASAKI, Naoki YOSHIE, Masahiro ANNO
  • Publication number: 20150093700
    Abstract: A liquid developer set of the present invention includes a first liquid developer including an insulating liquid and first toner particles and a second liquid developer including an insulating liquid and second toner particles, the first toner particles include carbon black and a first resin, the second toner particles include a coloring agent other than carbon black and a second resin, without including carbon black, the first resin and the second resin each include a hydrocarbon long chain which is a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 8 to 30, and a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the first toner particles is higher than a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the second toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiko MOMOTANI, Naoki YOSHIE, Yukiko UNO, Masaaki OKA
  • Publication number: 20150086920
    Abstract: A resin in a liquid developer contains a first resin which is a urethane-modified polyester resin resulting from increase in chain length of a component derived from a polyester resin by a compound containing an isocyanate group and a second resin. The first resin is contained by not lower than 70 mass % with respect to a total of the first resin and the second resin. The component derived from the polyester resin includes a constitutional unit derived from an acid component and a constitutional unit derived from an alcohol component. A ratio of a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic monomer occupied in the constitutional unit derived from the acid component and the constitutional unit derived from the alcohol component is not lower than 80 mass %. Relation of 2.3?Mw/Mn?4(10000?Mn?50000) is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150086919
    Abstract: A resin in a liquid developer contains 80 mass % or more of a urethane-modified polyester resin. A component derived from a polyester resin contains a constitutional unit derived from an acid component and a constitutional unit derived from an alcohol component. A ratio of a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic monomer occupied in the constitutional unit derived from the acid component and the constitutional unit derived from the alcohol component is not lower than 90 mass %. Relation of |Tm1?Tm5|?20° C. (70° C.?Tm1?170° C., 60° C.?Tm5?120° C.) is satisfied, where Tm1 (° C.) represents a softening temperature T1/2 of toner particles measured with a flow tester under a load of 1 kg and Tm5 (° C.) represents a softening temperature T1/2 of toner particles measured with a flow tester under a load of 5 kg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Keiichiro HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20150072288
    Abstract: A liquid developer is obtained by dispersing toner particles containing a core resin, a shell resin different from the core resin, and a coloring agent in an insulating liquid. The core resin contains a crystalline urethane-modified polyester resin. A solid content of the liquid developer corresponding to a portion of the liquid developer excluding the insulating liquid has a storage elastic modulus at 80° C., not lower than 1×104 Pa and not higher than 5×106 Pa. A lowest temperature at the time when an absolute value of an amount of change in a logarithmic value (log(G?)) of a storage elastic modulus (G?) of the solid content of the liquid developer with respect to a temperature T (° C.) (|? log(G?)/?T|) satisfies an Equation (1) below is not lower than 45° C.: |? log(G?)/?T|>0.1??Equation (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Nofumi MIZUMOTO, Naoki YOSHIE, Yuya IWAGOE, Satoshi MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 8974996
    Abstract: A liquid developer used for wet-type image forming apparatuses includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin, a pigment, and a pigment dispersant, the pigment includes a pigment having an acid group, and the pigment dispersant is a basic polymer dispersant including units derived from ?-caprolactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshie, Kenji Hayashi, Chiaki Yamada, Keiko Momotani, Masahiro Anno, Yuya Kubo, Miyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20140370436
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulating liquid. The insulating liquid has a flash point not lower than 100° C. The toner particles contain a resin, and the resin contains 80 mass % or more of a first resin containing a component derived from a polyester resin. A solid content of the liquid developer corresponding to a portion of the liquid developer excluding the insulating liquid satisfies relation of G?(T0)/G?(T0+10)?10 (50° C.?T0?70° C.), where G?(T0) represents a storage elastic modulus at a temperature T0 (° C.) and G?(T0+10) represents a storage elastic modulus at a temperature (T0+10) (° C.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Masahiro Anno, Yukiko Uno, Masaaki Oka
  • Publication number: 20140234769
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and a plurality of toner particles. The plurality of toner particles has a median size not smaller than 1 ?m and not greater than 3 ?m as a whole. In the plurality of toner particles, average circularity is not smaller than 0.90 and not greater than 0.96, and a standard deviation of circularity is not smaller than 0.02 and not greater than 0.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Masahiro ANNO, Keiko MOMOTANI, Miyuki HOTTA, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Sho KIM, Yukiko UNO
  • Publication number: 20140234770
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and a plurality of toner particles. The plurality of toner particles has a volume-based median size not smaller than 0.5 ?m and not greater than 3 ?m as a whole, and a volume-based coefficient of variation not lower than 40% and not higher than 130%. The plurality of toner particles includes a first toner particle group of the toner particles having a particle size not greater than 1 ?m. The number of toner particles constituting the first toner particle group occupies not lower than 20% of the total number of toner particles. The toner particles in the first toner particle group have an average circularity not smaller than 0.945.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Miyuki HOTTA, Masahiro Anno, Naoki Yoshie, Keiko Momotani, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno, Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140087302
    Abstract: In a liquid developer in which toner particles are dispersed in an insulating liquid, the toner particles have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin particles further contain a pigment and a dispersant for pigment, and solubility of the dispersant for pigment in the insulating liquid is not higher than 10 mass % at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Sho KIM, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Naoki YOSHIE, Kenji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140087300
    Abstract: Toner particles contained in a liquid developer have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin satisfies Equations (1) to (2) below. In Equations (1) to (2) below, x represents a number average molecular weight of the second resin and y represents a urethane group concentration (mass %) in the second resin. ?0.00003x+2.03?y??0.00003x+6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko UNO, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Naoki YOSHIE, Kenji HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140087304
    Abstract: Toner particles have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. Heat of fusion with differential scanning calorimetry of the second resin satisfies Equations (1) to (2) below. In Equations (1) to (2) below, H1 and H2 represent heats of fusion (J/g) at initial temperature increase and second temperature increase with differential scanning calorimetry of the second resin, respectively. 5?H1?70??Equation (1) 0.2?H2/H1?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko Uno, Satoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yoshie, Chiaki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8630568
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid development apparatus having a constitution in which liquid developer containing carrier liquid with toner dispersed therein is supplied from a liquid developer/cleaning liquid supply member on a pool forming member arranged facing to a supply roller so as to form a pool of the liquid developer, from which pool the liquid developer is supplied to the supply roller, wherein a liquid developer/cleaning liquid supply member supplies cleaning liquid on a pool forming member to form a suitable pooling portion of the cleaning liquid and the liquid developer remaining on the surface of the supply roller is removed and cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshie, Yuji Kamoda, Keiko Momotani, Kazuko Fukumoto, Yasuo Shirodai, Eiji Tabata
  • Patent number: 8617782
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes at least toner particles and an insulating liquid. The toner particles include a resin and a color material dispersed in the resin. 90 mass % or more of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 16, and 20 to 60 mass % of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiko Momotani, Yuya Kubo, Masahiro Anno, Naoki Yoshie, Kenji Hayashi, Chiaki Yamada, Miyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20130115552
    Abstract: A liquid developer used for wet-type image forming apparatuses includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin, a pigment, and a pigment dispersant, the pigment includes a pigment having an acid group, and the pigment dispersant is a basic polymer dispersant including units derived from ?-caprolactone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Kenji HAYASHI, Chiaki YAMADA, Keiko MOMOTANI, Masahiro ANNO, Yuya KUBO, Miyuki HOTTA
  • Publication number: 20130065176
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes at least toner particles and an insulating liquid. The toner particles include a resin and a color material dispersed in the resin. 90 mass % or more of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 16, and 20 to 60 mass % of the insulating liquid is aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 11 to 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Keiko MOMOTANI, Yuya KUBO, Masahiro ANNO, Naoki YOSHIE, Kenji HAYASHI, Chiaki YAMADA, Miyuki HOTTA