Patents by Inventor Naoya Isono

Naoya Isono 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: 20130252163
    Abstract: Provided is a toner capable of suppressing the bleeding of wax to the surface of the toner to maintain a high electrophotograph property while maintaining a broad fixing temperature range and capable of reducing interior contamination in long-term use. The toner includes toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax. The toner has a softening point of 75° C. or more and 110° C. or less measured by a constant-pressure-extrusion-type capillary rheometer. The wax is a hydrocarbon wax composed of a hydrocarbon compound. The hydrocarbon wax has specific abundance ratios each corresponding to a specific carbon number range of hydrocarbon compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Kenichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8497054
    Abstract: Provided is a toner in which faulty transfer under an extremely-low-temperature, low-humidity environment hardly occurs, including toner particles and a zeolite as an external additive, in which a ratio of the alminium atoms to a total of the silicon atoms and the aluminium atoms contained in the zeolite is 0.2 to 24.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Sugiyama, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Naoya Isono, Yuhei Terui
  • Patent number: 8440382
    Abstract: A method of stably producing a toner is provided. This method provides a long-term stabilization of material dispersion in a colorant-dispersed solution and inhibits segregation of the material and provides a more microfine and more uniform dispersion of the colorant in the toner, and moreover produces a toner that has a sharp toner particle diameter distribution. This method of producing toner has at least a colorant dispersion step of obtaining a colorant-dispersed solution by dispersing a pigment-containing colorant in a liquid mixture that contains the colorant and a dissolved resin solution or a polymerizable monomer, wherein the liquid mixture contains a nonionic surfactant and the nonionic surfactant has at least an oxyalkylene group and has a hydrophile-lipophile balance value (HLB value) of 9.0 or more and 17.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui
  • Patent number: 8367289
    Abstract: A toner is provided which is excellent in development stability in both a low-temperature, low-humidity environment and a high-temperature, high-humidity environment over a long time period. The toner includes toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, and a fatty acid metal salt. The fatty acid metal salt has a volume-based median diameter (D50s) of 0.15 ?m or more and 0.65 ?m or less, and the liberation ratio of the fatty acid metal salt in the toner is 1.0% or more and 25.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Satoshi Handa, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui
  • Publication number: 20120315574
    Abstract: A toner is provided that exhibits a high long-term image stability even during high-speed printing and that also exhibits an excellent environmental stability. The toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the nonionic surfactant has an oxyethylene group (EO) and an oxypropylene group (PO) and has a ratio of the number of moles of the oxypropylene group to the number of moles of the oxyethylene group (PO/EO) of at least 0.01 and not more than 5.00; and when A (?g/g) is defined as a nonionic surfactant content on the surface of the toner that can be extracted by methanol from 1 g of the toner and B (m2/g) is defined as a theoretical specific surface area determined from a toner particle diameter distribution obtained by a precision particle diameter distribution analyzer that operates based on an aperture electrical resistance method, a ratio A/B is at least 100 ?g/m2 and not more than 9000 ?g/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Nonaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Naoya Isono, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui
  • Publication number: 20110305989
    Abstract: A method of stably producing a toner is provided. This method provides a long-term stabilization of material dispersion in a colorant-dispersed solution and inhibits segregation of the material and provides a more microfine and more uniform dispersion of the colorant in the toner, and moreover produces a toner that has a sharp toner particle diameter distribution. This method of producing toner has at least a colorant dispersion step of obtaining a colorant-dispersed solution by dispersing a pigment-containing colorant in a liquid mixture that contains the colorant and a dissolved resin solution or a polymerizable monomer, wherein the liquid mixture contains a nonionic surfactant and the nonionic surfactant has at least an oxyalkylene group and has a hydrophile-lipophile balance value (HLB value) of 9.0 or more and 17.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui
  • Publication number: 20110097657
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner in which the problems in the techniques described are solved. That is, the object is to provide a toner which has an excellent charging characteristic regardless of the environment and which achieves high image quality over a long period of time. A toner includes toner particles including at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, and at least one inorganic fine powder, the toner being characterized in that, in a thermally stimulated current spectrum of the toner measured with a thermally stimulated current measurement apparatus, the thermally stimulated current spectrum of the toner has a specific shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei Terui, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Naoya Isono, Akira Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20110097660
    Abstract: Provided is a toner in which faulty transfer under an extremely-low-temperature, low-humidity environment hardly occurs, including toner particles and a zeolite as an external additive, in which a ratio of the alminium atoms to a total of the silicon atoms and the aluminium atoms contained in the zeolite is 0.2 to 24.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sugiyama, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Naoya Isono, Yuhei Terui
  • Publication number: 20110053073
    Abstract: A toner is provided which is excellent in development stability in both a low-temperature, low-humidity environment and a high-temperature, high-humidity environment over a long time period. The toner includes toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, and a fatty acid metal salt. The fatty acid metal salt has a volume-based median diameter (D50s) of 0.15 ?m or more and 0.65 ?m or less, and the liberation ratio of the fatty acid metal salt in the toner is 1.0% or more and 25.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Satoshi Handa, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui
  • Publication number: 20090130582
    Abstract: A toner which has i) toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant and ii) a fatty acid metal salt composition as an external additive. The fatty acid metal salt composition contains a nonionic surface-active agent and a fatty acid metal salt. This toner and an image forming process making use of the toner can keep the toner from adhering to a toner carrying member throughout running, promise a stable chargeability of the toner and can keep any deterioration of halftone image quality from being caused by excess charging of the toner and any image fog from being caused by insufficient charging of the toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Handa, Naoya Isono, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Akira Sugiyama, Yuhei Terui