Patents by Inventor Noriko Suzumura

Noriko Suzumura 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: 10191404
    Abstract: A charging member is provided having an electroconductive substrate, and a resin layer on the substrate, in which the charging member has an area on the surface of the charging member, the area including a compound represented by the following formula (1),
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamauchi, Masataka Kodama, Noriko Suzumura
  • Patent number: 10078286
    Abstract: A charging member which has high charging ability and prevents generation of abnormal discharge is provided. The charging member includes a support and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymetalloxane having a specific structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kineo Takeno, Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Masataka Kodama, Noriyuki Doi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Noriko Suzumura, Hiroki Masu
  • Patent number: 10036971
    Abstract: Provided is a charging member that suppresses the occurrence of abnormal discharge under low temperature and low humidity. The charging member includes a support and a surface layer on the support, and the surface layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (a), (b), (c), or (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Doi, Kineo Takeno, Noriko Suzumura, Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Masataka Kodama, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu
  • Patent number: 9897931
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography having a stable charging ability. The electroconductive member includes, in this order, an electroconductive substrate, an electroconductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymer having a urethane linkage. The polymer has, in the molecule, structures included in at least two groups selected from: Group A of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (1); Group B of at least one of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (2) or structures each represented by a structural formula (3); and Group C of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (4). The surface layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×1010 ?·cm or more and 1.0×1016 ?·cm or less, and the surface layer has a universal hardness at a depth 1 ?m from the surface thereof of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Nishioka, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Patent number: 9740133
    Abstract: An electrophotographic charging member in which the adhesion of contamination is more suppressed is provided. The electrophotographic charging member includes an electro-conductive support and an electro-conductive elastic layer on the electro-conductive support, the electro-conductive elastic layer includes 10% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less of an aggregate of crosslinked rubber particles, the aggregate of the crosslinked rubber particles has a circle-equivalent diameter of 10 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less, the crosslinked rubber particles have one of an acrylic resin and a styrene acrylic resin chemically bonded to a surface thereof, the charging member has a protrusion derived from the aggregate of the crosslinked rubber particles on a surface thereof, and the protrusion has an average height of 50 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20170090329
    Abstract: An electrophotographic charging member in which the adhesion of contamination is more suppressed is provided. The electrophotographic charging member includes an electro-conductive support and an electro-conductive elastic layer on the electro-conductive support, the electro-conductive elastic layer includes 10% by mass or more and 50% by mass or less of an aggregate of crosslinked rubber particles, the aggregate of the crosslinked rubber particles has a circle-equivalent diameter of 10 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less, the crosslinked rubber particles have one of an acrylic resin and a styrene acrylic resin chemically bonded to a surface thereof, the charging member has a protrusion derived from the aggregate of the crosslinked rubber particles on a surface thereof, and the protrusion has an average height of 50 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Patent number: 9556359
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a member for electrophotography capable of providing a high-quality electrophotographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriko Suzumura, Noriyuki Doi, Hiroki Masu, Masataka Kodama, Masahiro Kurachi, Noriaki Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20160299450
    Abstract: A charging member which has high charging ability and prevents generation of abnormal discharge is provided. The charging member includes a support and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymetalloxane having a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Kineo Takeno, Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Masataka Kodama, Noriyuki Doi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Noriko Suzumura, Hiroki Masu
  • Publication number: 20160299451
    Abstract: Provided is a charging member exhibiting a stable charging performance even by long-term use. The charging member includes a support and a surface layer on the support, and the surface layer contains a magnesium oxide particle, and a compound having a specified structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Masataka Kodama, Noriyuki Doi, Kineo Takeno, Noriko Suzumura, Hiroki Masu
  • Patent number: 9442408
    Abstract: A member for electrophotography for use in forming a high quality electrophotographic image for a long period is provided. The member for electrophotography includes a support, an elastic layer on the support, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The elastic layer includes a quaternary ammonium salt and an epichlorohydrin rubber. The surface layer includes a material having a specific structure. A universal hardness a surface of the surface layer is 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 5.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Patent number: 9442451
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography which is suppressed in adhesion of a contaminant to a surface thereof. The electroconductive member for electrophotography includes, in this order, an electroconductive support, an electroconductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a binder resin and electroconductive fine particles having a number average particle diameter of 5.0 nm or more and 50.0 nm or less. At least part of the electroconductive fine particles are exposed from the surface layer. The surface layer has, on a surface thereof, protruded portions derived from exposed portions of the electroconductive fine particles. The surface layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×1010 ?cm or more and 1.0×1016 ?cm or less and a universal hardness at a depth of 1 ?m from the surface thereof of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Patent number: 9360789
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a member for electrophotography that can inhibit the adhesion of dirt to the outer surface. The member for electrophotography has a substrate, an elastic layer on the substrate, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a binder resin and first particles, the surface of the surface layer has first convexes derived from the first particles, the first particles resulting in the first convex has an average inter-particle surface distance of 50 nm or less, the first particles have a number-average particle diameter of 200 nm or more and 1000 nm or less, and the surface of the surface layer has a universal hardness of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Masu, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Kenichi Yamauchi, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160154336
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a member for electrophotography that can inhibit the adhesion of dirt to the outer surface. The member for electrophotography has a substrate, an elastic layer on the substrate, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a binder resin and first particles, the surface of the surface layer has first convexes derived from the first particles, the first particles resulting in the first convex has an average inter-particle surface distance of 50 nm or less, the first particles have a number-average particle diameter of 200 nm or more and 1000 nm or less, and the surface of the surface layer has a universal hardness of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki Masu, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Kenichi Yamauchi, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160154323
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography having a stable charging ability. The electroconductive member includes, in this order, an electroconductive substrate, an electroconductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a polymer having a urethane linkage. The polymer has, in the molecule, structures included in at least two groups selected from: Group A of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (1); Group B of at least one of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (2) or structures each represented by a structural formula (3); and Group C of structures each represented by a specific structural formula (4). The surface layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×1010 ?·cm or more and 1.0×1016 ?·cm or less, and the surface layer has a universal hardness at a depth 1 ?m from the surface thereof of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Satoru Nishioka, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160154335
    Abstract: A member for electrophotography for use in forming a high quality electrophotographic image for a long period is provided. The member for electrophotography includes a support, an elastic layer on the support, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The elastic layer includes a quaternary ammonium salt and an epichlorohydrin rubber. The surface layer includes a material having a specific structure. A universal hardness a surface of the surface layer is 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 5.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Kenichi Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160154366
    Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive member for electrophotography which is suppressed in adhesion of a contaminant to a surface thereof. The electroconductive member for electrophotography includes, in this order, an electroconductive support, an electroconductive elastic layer, and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a binder resin and electroconductive fine particles having a number average particle diameter of 5.0 nm or more and 50.0 nm or less. At least part of the electroconductive fine particles are exposed from the surface layer. The surface layer has, on a surface thereof, protruded portions derived from exposed portions of the electroconductive fine particles. The surface layer has a volume resistivity of 1.0×1010 ?cm or more and 1.0×1016 ?cm or less and a universal hardness at a depth of 1 ?m from the surface thereof of 1.0 N/mm2 or more and 7.0 N/mm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoru Nishioka, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160116857
    Abstract: A charging member is provided having an electroconductive substrate, and a resin layer on the substrate, in which the charging member has an area on the surface of the charging member, the area including a compound represented by the following formula (1),
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi Yamauchi, Masataka Kodama, Noriko Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20160041490
    Abstract: A charging member includes a support and a surface layer. The surface layer contains a first compound and a second compound different from the first compound. The first compound is a polysiloxane having at least one unit selected from the group consisting of SiO4/2(Q) unit, SiO3/2(T) unit, and SiO2/2(D) unit. The second compound is an acrylic polymer having a quaternary ammonium group and a group having an organosiloxane bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Noriko Suzumura, Noriyuki Doi, Masataka Kodama, Hiroki Masu
  • Publication number: 20150331348
    Abstract: Provided is a charging member that suppresses the occurrence of abnormal discharge under low temperature and low humidity. The charging member includes a support and a surface layer on the support, and the surface layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (a), (b), (c), or (d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki Doi, Kineo Takeno, Noriko Suzumura, Hiroshi Mayuzumi, Masataka Kodama, Kenichi Yamauchi, Hiroki Masu
  • Patent number: 9081321
    Abstract: There is provided a charging member having charging performance that is not easily changed even by long-term use. The charging member includes an electro-conductive support, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. The elastic layer contains particles in such a manner that at least a part of the particles are exposed from the elastic layer, and thus a surface of the elastic layer is roughened. The particles are high-molecular-weight polyethylene particles. The surface of the elastic layer is covered with the surface layer in such a manner that the surface shape of the elastic layer is reflected in the surface shape of the charging member. The surface layer contains a high-molecular compound having a specific constitutional unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masataka Kodama, Taichi Sato, Noriko Suzumura, Noriyuki Doi, Masahiro Kurachi, Hiroki Masu, Noriaki Kuroda