Patents by Inventor Naruo Yabe

Naruo Yabe 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: 11880163
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes specific external additive particles. The specific external additive particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 30 nm and no greater than 305 nm. The specific external additive particles include antimony-doped tin oxide particles or indium tin oxide particles. A ratio (MSb/(MSn+MSb)) of a mass (MSb) of an antimony atom to a total of the mass (MSb) of the antimony atom and a mass (MSn) of a tin atom in the antimony-doped tin oxide particles is at least 0.04 and no greater than 0.46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota Kobayashi, Naruo Yabe, Takeshi Arakawa, Takeo Mizobe, Masanori Sugahara
  • Publication number: 20220163901
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes fluorine-containing particles. The fluorine-containing particles include a fluorine atom at least in surface layers thereof. The amount of the fluorine-containing particles is at least 0.10 parts by mass and no greater than 0.50 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner mother particles. When ultrasonication is performed, a residual amount ratio of remaining fluorine-containing particles is at least 0% by mass and no greater than 20% by mass relative to the amount of the fluorine-containing particles attached to the toner mother particles before the ultrasonication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masanori SUGAHARA, Naruo YABE, Takeshi ARAKAWA, Takeo MIZOBE, Ryota KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220113644
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes specific external additive particles. The specific external additive particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 30 nm and no greater than 305 nm. The specific external additive particles include antimony-doped tin oxide particles or indium tin oxide particles. A ratio (MSb/(MSn+MSb)) of a mass (MSb) of an antimony atom to a total of the mass (MSb) of the antimony atom and a mass (MSn) of a tin atom in the antimony-doped tin oxide particles is at least 4% by mass and no greater than 46% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota KOBAYASHI, Naruo YABE, Takeshi ARAKAWA, Takeo MIZOBE, Masanori SUGAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220035263
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes fluororesin particles. The fluororesin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 100 nm and no greater than 300 nm. An area ratio of a region of the surface of the toner mother particle that is covered with the fluororesin particles is at least 0.70% and no greater than 2.20% in the surface of the toner mother particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo MIZOBE, Naruo YABE, Takeshi ARAKAWA, Masanori SUGAHARA, Ryota KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11092907
    Abstract: A toner contains toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive contains titanate compound particles doped with lanthanum and a group 5 element in the periodic table as external additive particles. The amount of the lanthanum is at least 1.50% by mass relative to the total mass of the titanate compound particles. The amount of the group 5 element in the periodic table is at least 0.01% by mass and no greater than 0.60% by mass relative to the total mass of the titanate compound particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Mizobe, Takeshi Arakawa, Masanori Sugahara, Ryota Kobayashi, Kazuki Ono, Naruo Yabe
  • Publication number: 20200341399
    Abstract: A toner contains toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive contains titanate compound particles doped with lanthanum and a group 5 element in the periodic table as external additive particles. The amount of the lanthanum is at least 1.50% by mass relative to the total mass of the titanate compound particles. The amount of the group 5 element in the periodic table is at least 0.01% by mass and no greater than 0.60% by mass relative to the total mass of the titanate compound particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo MIZOBE, Takeshi ARAKAWA, Masanori SUGAHARA, Ryota KOBAYASHI, Kazuki ONO, Naruo YABE
  • Patent number: 9329509
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains toner particles each including a toner core containing a binder resin, and a shell layer coating the surface of the tore core. The shell layer contains a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin, and a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin. The resin contained in the shell layer has a unit derived from one or more monomers of thermosetting resins selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ozawa, Naruo Yabe, Masami Tsujihiro, Ryotaro Komada
  • Publication number: 20150004540
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains toner particles each including a toner core containing a binder resin, and a shell layer coating the surface of the tore core. The shell layer contains a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin, and a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin. The resin contained in the shell layer has a unit derived from one or more monomers of thermosetting resins selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yoshio OZAWA, Naruo YABE, Masami TSUJIHIRO, Ryotaro KOMADA
  • Patent number: 7455946
    Abstract: A two-component developing agent retained on the periphery surface of a magnetic roller 11 and a development roller 12 are brought in contact with each other, the nonmagnetic toner in the two-component developing agent is electrostatically adhered to the periphery surface of the development roller 12, and the nonmagnetic toner on the development roller 12 is sprayed on the periphery surface of a photosensitive drum 13, thereby causing an image of an electrostatic latent image to appear on the photosensitive drum 13 as a toner image. The two-component developing agent for an image forming device thus configured comprises a nonmagnetic toner comprising color particles, and a magnetic carrier, wherein the magnetic carrier has a resin coating layer on the magnetic particle surface, and the critical surface tension of this resin coating layer is 25 dyn/cm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Kouzou Teramoto, Norio Kubo, Takeo Mizobe
  • Publication number: 20080286677
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner for a developer comprising cylindrical toner particles formed of a toner composition containing at least a binder resin and a releasant as toner components, and an external additive, wherein the cylindrical toner particles have an average circularity of 0.880 or more and 0.930 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Takanori Tanaka, Akira Tanaka, Kousuke Satou, Yukinori Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20070248900
    Abstract: A developer used for an image forming apparatus including the step of forming a color image by using a single photoreceptor and removing a toner remaining on the photoreceptor after the transfer step with a cleaning blade, which developer is composed of a black toner having a circularity of 0.96 or less and a color toner having a circularity of 0.96 or more, in which at least inorganic particles containing Si compound particles and Ti compound particles are externally added to both of the black toner and the color toner, and the amount of the inorganic particles externally added to the black toner and the color toner satisfies the expressions (1) and (2). {Si(C)+Ti(C)}?1.5×{Si(Bk)+Ti(Bk)}??(1) Ti(C)?1.5×Ti(Bk)??(2) (In the expressions, Si(C), Ti(C), Si(Bk) and Ti(Bk) are as described in the specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Kouzou Teramoto, Tomohiko Kubo, Akinori Koyama
  • Publication number: 20070212629
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner for use in an image forming apparatus using an amorphous silicon photoconductor as a latent image carrier, and having a cleaning blade for removing the toner remaining on the photoconductor after a transfer step. The toner has a friction coefficient with the photoconductor in a range of 0.3 to 0.6. At least inorganic fine particles such as titanium oxide are externally added to the toner. The inorganic fine particles have a number-average primary particle size of 30 nm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Kousuke Satou
  • Publication number: 20070202425
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner used for an image forming apparatus, comprising an organic photoreceptor as a latent image supporting material and a cleaning blade for removing a residual toner on the organic photoreceptor after a transfer process, wherein the friction coefficient between the organic photoreceptor and the toner is from 0.30 to 0.65, the toner contains at least one kind of inorganic fine particles on the surface, and one of the inorganic fine particles is made of silica.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Kousuke Satou, Naruo Yabe
  • Publication number: 20070099104
    Abstract: A two-component developing agent retained on the periphery surface of a magnetic roller 11 and a development roller 12 are brought in contact with each other, the nonmagnetic toner in the two-component developing agent is electrostatically adhered to the periphery surface of the development roller 12, and the nonmagnetic toner on the development roller 12 is sprayed on the periphery surface of a photosensitive drum 13, thereby causing an image of an electrostatic latent image to appear on the photosensitive drum 13 as a toner image. The two-component developing agent for an image forming device thus configured comprises a nonmagnetic toner comprising color particles, and a magnetic carrier, wherein the magnetic carrier has a resin coating layer on the magnetic particle surface, and the critical surface tension of this resin coating layer is 25 dyn/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Kouzou Teramoto, Norio Kubo, Takeo Mizobe
  • Publication number: 20070072104
    Abstract: When a titanium oxide surface-treated with a titanate-based coupling agent is used as an external additive on the surface of toner particles, titanium oxides are likely to be aggregated with each other and aggregated titanium oxide particles are likely to fall off from the surface of the toner. As a result, since toner particles do not support a required amount of titanium oxide particles, poor charging of the toner may occur and fog increases. Therefore, when a toner for electrostatic latent image development comprises color particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, and titanium oxide, as an external additive, formed on the surface of the color particles, the titanium oxide being surface-treated with a titanate-based coupling agent containing 30% or less of a solvent soluble component, aggregation of titanium oxides can be reduced and stable charging of the toner can be achieved, and thus the resulting image is stable for a long period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Kouzou Teramoto, Kousuke Sato, Tomohiko Kubo
  • Patent number: 5629119
    Abstract: A two-component binder-type magnetic carrier for developing agent comprising a magnetic powder and a binder resin. The carrier particles contain dispersed therein a release agent of the type of a metal soap and have abrasive or collapsible surfaces. By using the developing agent which contains this carrier, the magnetic powder peels off the carrier particle surfaces maintaining a controlled particle diameter and amount. Therefore, the carrier particles possess fresh surfaces at all times, whereby the occurrence of spent toner is effectively prevented and the charging amount of the toner is stably maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyotsune Inoue, Naruo Yabe, Hiroshi Shimoyama, Takuya Kadota, Toshiro Okae
  • Patent number: 5376489
    Abstract: The developer in accordance with the present invention includes toner, and a carrier having a core material the surface of which is coated with a coating layer made of a polymer, the coating layer having a resistance value sufficient to minimize the counter electric charge remaining in the coating layer, and the toner having any of characteristic values required for preventing a counter electric charge remaining in the coating layer from being increased. The use of the developer of the present invention not only prevents the occurrence of so-called carrier scattering, to thereby prevent blanking, but also produces an image of high quality having a high initial image density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naruo Yabe, Tetsuya Nakano, Masahide Inoue, Teruaki Teratani, Koichi Tsuyama, Yoshitake Shimizu, Seijiro Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 5360690
    Abstract: A two-component developer comprising a magnetic carrier having a carbon black-containing resin-coating layer and a toner composed of a carbon black-containing resin composition is disclosed. A styrene resin, an acrylic resin or a styrene-acrylic copolymer resin is selected as each of the carrier-coating resin and the toner-forming resin, and the carbon black content A in the carrier-coating layer and the carbon black content B in the toner-forming layer satisfy requirements represented by the following formulae: ##STR1## Namely, by adjusting the carbon black contents A and B within specific ranges relatively to each other, a two-component developer which is well-balanced between the frictional chargeability characteristic and the electric resistance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakano, Mikiko Tamori, Naruo Yabe, Masahide Inoue, Kouichi Tsuyama, Yoshitake Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5296328
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic brush developing method using a two-component developer, characterized in that the development is carried out under such conditions that at the position where the sliding contact of the magnetic brush with the surface of the photosensitive material drum terminates, the following requirement is satisfied:P.sub.x .gtoreq.430, orP.sub.x <430 and P.sub.y .gtoreq.-P.sub.x +800,wherein P.sub.x represents the magnetic force (Gauss) acting in the tangential direction on the surface of the developing sleeve, and P.sub.y represents the magnetic force (Gauss) acting in the normal line direction on the surface of the developing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Fuji, Akira Nakakuma, Naruo Yabe, Akihiro Watanabe, Yoshihisa Kuramae, Toshio Nishio, Noriaki Tsubota, Masahiko Kubo, Kazuhisa Edahiro
  • Patent number: 5281505
    Abstract: A toner composition comprising a binder resin having dispersed therein additives including a colorant and a charge control agent, wherein said additives are present as agglomerates having an average sectional area of from 1.4 to 1.7 .mu.m.sup.2 in a section of toner particles, the total sectional area of the agglomerates in the section of toner particles ranging from 1.5 to 1.8%, or wherein said colorant and charge control agent are present as agglomerates having an average sectional area of from 1.4 to 1.7 .mu.m.sup.2 in a section of toner particles, and said composition has such rheological characteristics that a dissipation factor (tan .delta.) is from 0.95 to 1.25 when a storage elastic modulus (G') is 10.sup.4 dyne/cm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1994
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Inoue, Tetsuya Nakano, Naruo Yabe, Teruaki Teratani, Koichi Tsuyama, Yoshitake Shimizu, Seijirou Ishimaru