Patents by Inventor Noboru Ueda

Noboru Ueda 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: 20220350269
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including: toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material; and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin; and the external additive contains strontium titanate particles doped with metal elements other than titanium and strontium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya KUBO, Takanari KAYAMORI, Naoya TONEGAWA, Noboru UEDA
  • Patent number: 11312865
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming method capable of coating a photocurable varnish without unevenness on a toner image formed using an electrostatic latent image developing toner, and further having good adhesion between a varnish layer and the toner image. The image forming method of the present invention comprises: forming a toner image on a recording medium using an electrostatic latent image developing toner containing a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a release agent; and forming a varnish layer on the toner image by applying and curing a photocurable varnish comprising a photocurable compound. The binder resin comprised in the electrostatic latent image developing toner contains a crystalline polyester resin. The photocurable compound comprised in the photocurable varnish comprises a diol di(meth)acrylate having a straight hydrocarbon chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takaki Kawamura, Noboru Ueda, Natsuki Ito, Yusuke Takigaura, Ami Motohashi
  • Publication number: 20220011685
    Abstract: The toner for developing an electrostatic charge image of the present invention contains a toner base particle comprising a binder resin, at least two kinds of organic pigments and carbon black, and strontium titanate as an external additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yuya KUBO, Takanari KAYAMORI, Noboru UEDA
  • Publication number: 20210095134
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming method capable of coating a photocurable varnish without unevenness on a toner image formed using an electrostatic latent image developing toner, and further having good adhesion between a varnish layer and the toner image. The image forming method of the present invention comprises: forming a toner image on a recording medium using an electrostatic latent image developing toner containing a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a release agent; and forming a varnish layer on the toner image by applying and curing a photocurable varnish comprising a photocurable compound. The binder resin comprised in the electrostatic latent image developing toner contains a crystalline polyester resin. The photocurable compound comprised in the photocurable varnish comprises a diol di(meth)acrylate having a straight hydrocarbon chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Takaki Kawamura, Noboru Ueda, Natsuki Ito, Yusuke Takigaura, Ami Motohashi
  • Publication number: 20210063905
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner set of the present invention is an electrostatic latent image developing toner set including at least a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, wherein when exothermic peak top temperatures during decreasing temperature in differential scanning calorimetry of the yellow toner, the magenta toner, and the cyan toner are assumed to be P(Y), P(M), and P(C), respectively, the exothermic peak top temperatures satisfy the following expression (1). 70?P(Y)?P(M)?P(C)?90(° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Takaki KAWAMURA, Noboru UEDA, Natsuki ITO, Yusuke TAKIGAURA, Ami MOTOHASHI
  • Patent number: 10901333
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Anju Hori, Noboru Ueda
  • Publication number: 20200379365
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new electrostatic latent image developing toner capable of suppressing adhesiveness of a release agent to a member such as a roller or the like and capable of suppressing gloss unevenness and gloss memory. An electrostatic latent image developing toner containing a binder resin, a release agent, and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, the release agent contains a hydrocarbon wax having a branching degree of 3 to 52%, and a top temperature of an exothermic peak during cooling of the electrostatic latent image developing toner measured by a differential scanning calorimetry is within a range of 60 to 85° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Aya SHIRAI, Noboru UEDA, Takaki KAWAMURA, Yusuke TAKIGAURA, Natsuki ITO, Ami MOTOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200379364
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner capable of preventing a release agent from adhering to a member such as a paper conveying roller or the like. An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, wherein the release agent contains at least an ester wax and the ester wax is an ester wax having a total carbon number of 45 or more and 71 or less, and a top temperature of an exothermic peak during cooling of the electrostatic latent image developing toner measured by a differential scanning calorimetry is within a range of 60° C. or higher and 85° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Noboru UEDA, Aya SHIRAI, Takaki KAWAMURA, Natsuki ITO, Yusuke TAKIGAURA, Ami MOTOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190294064
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Anju Hori, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 10379452
    Abstract: Provided is a color image forming process using colorant-containing toners of multiple colors containing colorants respectively having different resistances, wherein each of the colorant-containing toners contains an amorphous resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a mold release agent, at least the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance contains a hybrid crystalline polyester resin formed by bonding a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment, and the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the hybrid crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance is greater than the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowes
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Natsuki Ito, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Kenshi Miyajima, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Patent number: 10353309
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Anju Hori, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 10254672
    Abstract: Provided is a means to exhibit excellent low temperature fixability and to improve all of the heat-resistant storage property of a toner, charging uniformity, and transferability under a high temperature and high humidity condition. A toner for developing electrostatic charge image which contains at least a binder resin, in which the binder resin has a core-shell structure having a core portion which contains a hybrid crystalline polyester resin formed by chemical bonds of a crystalline polyester resin unit with an amorphous resin unit other than a polyester resin and an amorphous resin and a shell portion which contains a hybrid amorphous polyester resin formed by chemical bonds of an amorphous polyester resin unit with an amorphous resin unit other than a polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC
    Inventors: Noboru Ueda, Shiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 10203621
    Abstract: An image forming method includes using yellow toner, magenta toner, cyan toner, and black toner in which each of the yellow toner, the magenta toner, the cyan toner, and the black toner includes a crystalline polyester resin having a constitutional unit derived from a linear chain aliphatic diol, an amorphous resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent. A carbon number of a linear chain aliphatic diol component forming the crystalline polyester resin contained in the black toner is 6 or more, and a carbon number of a linear chain aliphatic diol component forming the crystalline polyester resin contained in each of the yellow toner, the magenta toner, and the cyan toner is 3 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenshi Miyajima, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Natsuki Ito, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Publication number: 20190018329
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Kouji SUGAMA, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Anju Hori, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 10168631
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic image developing toner containing toner mother particles, wherein the toner mother particle is formed by being provided with a plurality of convex portions on a toner mother particle precursor; the toner mother particle precursor contains a vinyl resin, a crystalline resin, and a mold release agent; the convex portion is formed with a hybrid amorphous polyester resin which is formed with a vinyl type polymerization segment and a polyester type polymerization segment both bonded together; and the hybrid amorphous polyester resin contains constituting units of a bisphenol A-propylene oxide adduct and a bisphenol A-ethylene oxide adduct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hidehito Haruki, Kouji Sugama, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 10133200
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Hiroshi Nagasawa, Anju Hori, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 10126668
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic charge image development contains a binder resin and a releasing agent. The binder resin contains an amorphous polyester resin as a main component and a vinyl resin, the vinyl resin contains a constitutional unit derived from a specific monomer. The releasing agent has a melting point of from 65 to 90° C. and contains an ester wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Shiro Hirano, Noboru Ueda, Kaori Matsushima
  • Patent number: 10120296
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles which comprises a binder resin and a releasing agent. A main component of the binder resin is a polyester resin. The binder resin comprises a crystalline polyester resin, an amorphous polyester resin and a hybrid vinyl resin. The hybrid vinyl resin is composed of a vinyl polymer segment and at least one segment selected from a polyester polymer segment, an urethane polymer segment and an urea polymer segment which is chemically bound to the vinyl polymer segment. A main component of the hybrid vinyl resin is the vinyl polymer segment which comprises a structural unit derived from a monomer having a specific structure. A tetrahydrofuran-soluble fraction of the toner has a main peak of a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography within the range of 11000 to 30000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori Matsushima, Noboru Ueda, Shiro Hirano, Kouji Sugama
  • Publication number: 20180307152
    Abstract: Provided is a color image forming process using colorant-containing toners of multiple colors containing colorants respectively having different resistances, wherein each of the colorant-containing toners contains an amorphous resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and a mold release agent, at least the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance contains a hybrid crystalline polyester resin formed by bonding a crystalline polyester polymerized segment and an amorphous polymerized segment, and the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the hybrid crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner other than the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowest resistance is greater than the content of the amorphous polymerized segment in the crystalline polyester resin contained in the colorant-containing toner containing a colorant having the lowes
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Natsuki Ito, Noboru Ueda, Kouji Sugama, Kenshi Miyajima, Yohei Ohno, Hidehito Haruki, Keisuke Asano
  • Patent number: 9996017
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic latent image developing toner containing: a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin; an endothermic peak top temperature of the electrostatic latent image developing toner is 70° C. or more measured with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in a heating-up period of the toner; and a heat value ?Hc(L) is 15% or less with respect to a heat value ?Hc, wherein the heat value ?Hc(L) is a heat value in the range of (an exothermic peak top temperature rc?7° C.) or less; and the heat value ?Hc is a heat value of the total exothermic peak measured with DSC in a heating-down period of the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Aya Shirai, Kouji Sugama, Shiro Hirano, Noboru Ueda