Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hiraoka

Satoshi Hiraoka 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: 8568950
    Abstract: There is provided a polyester resin for a toner, including: a polycondensate of a polyvalent carboxylic acid component and a polyhydric alcoholic component, wherein the polyhydric alcoholic component contains a rosin diol represented by the following Formula (1) and a content of the rosin diol is 80 mole % to 100 mole % based on the total polyhydric alcoholic component. wherein, each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; L1 represents a divalent linking group having the following Formula (I); each of L2 and L3 independently represents a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl groups, carboxyl groups, ether groups, sulfonyl groups, substituted or unsubstituted chained alkylene groups, substituted or unsubstituted cyclic alkylene groups, substituted or unsubstituted arylene groups, and combinations thereof; and each of A1 and A2 independently represents a rosin ester group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Shiozaki, Sumiaki Yamasaki, Satoshi Hiraoka, Yuki Sasaki, Susumu Yoshino, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Emi Miyata
  • Publication number: 20130244170
    Abstract: A polyester resin for a toner is a polycondensate of a carboxylic acid component and an alcohol component including rosin diol that is represented by the following formula (1) and has an alicyclic structure (alicyclic alcohol), wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents hydrogen or a methyl group, L1 represents a divalent linking group having an alicyclic structure, L2 and L3 each independently represents a divalent linking group selected from a group consisting of a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an ether group, a sulfonyl group, a chain-like alkylene group which may have a substituent, a cyclic alkylene group, a phenylene group, and combinations thereof, and A1 and A2 represent a rosin ester group, provided that a divalent linking group having the alicyclic structure represented by L1 may be a divalent linking group having an alicyclic structure formed through linking with any of R1, R2, L2 or L3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Emi MIYATA, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Yuki SASAKI, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20130236831
    Abstract: A polyurethane resin which is an addition polymer, includes an isocyanate compound containing at least a compound having two or more isocyanate groups; and an alcohol compound containing rosin diol represented by Formula (1): wherein in Formula (1), R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, L1, L2, and L3 each independently represent a carbonyl group, an ester group, an ether group, a sulfonyl group, a chain alkylene group which may have a substituent, a cyclic alkylene group which may have a substituent, an arylene group which may have a substituent, and a divalent linking group selected from a group consisting of combinations of the above-described groups, wherein L1 and L2 or L1 and L3 may form a ring together, and A1 and A2 represent a rosin ester group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUOKA, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Yuki SASAKI, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI, Emi MIYATA
  • Patent number: 8507168
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner that includes a toner particle including a binder resin containing a resin selected from an acrylic resin, a styrene-acrylic resin, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid ester copolymer. The resin has a crosslinked structure formed by using at least one of boric acid and boric acid derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hiraoka, Sumiaki Yamasaki, Susumu Yoshino, Shigeru Seitoku, Hirofumi Shiozaki, Kazuhiko Yanagida
  • Publication number: 20130071784
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes an aliphatic polyester resin and a polyester resin having a repeating unit derived from rosin diol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka MATSUOKA, Yuki SASAKI, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Satoshi HIRAOKA
  • Patent number: 8338067
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer is provided, the electrostatic image developer including: a carrier for an electrostatic image developer, the carrier including a core particle which has a plurality of projections on a surface of the core particle; and electrostatic image developing toners, wherein the electrostatic image developer satisfies following relationships of formulae (1) and (2): 0.5t<H??(1) 21/2t<L<5t??(2) wherein t represents a volume average particle diameter (?m) of the toners; H represents an average height difference (?m) in the recesses and projections of the core particle; and L represents an average distance (?m) between the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Yoshino, Hideo Maehata, Satoshi Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20120264041
    Abstract: A polyester resin for a toner containing: a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid component; and a repeating unit derived from a diol component represented by Formula (1): wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, each of L1, L2 and L3 independently represents a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of carbonyl groups, ester groups, ether groups, sulfonyl groups, substituted or unsubstituted chained alkylene groups, substituted or unsubstituted cyclic alkylene groups, substituted or unsubstituted arylene groups, and combinations thereof, L1 and L2 or L1 and L3 optionally forms a ring, and each of A1 and A2 independently represents a rosin ester group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Yuki SASAKI, Susumu YOSHINO, Hirotaka MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 8288071
    Abstract: A resin particle liquid dispersion for an electrostatic image developing toner, comprising: an aqueous medium; and a resin particle dispersed in the aqueous medium to have a median diameter of 0.05 to 2.0 ?m, the resin particle comprising a polycondensable polymer obtained by polycondensing polycondensable monomers, wherein a storage modulus GL(30) of the resin particle at 30° C. is 1×107 Pa or more, and a melting point of the polycondensable polymer is from 45 to 110° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Satoshi Hiraoka, Fumiaki Mera, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8263303
    Abstract: A method for producing a colored resin particle dispersion liquid comprises: polycondensing a polyester-forming monomer in a nonaqueous solvent to produce an unsaturated polyester; graft-polymerizing an ethylenic unsaturated monomer to the unsaturated polyester in a nonaqueous solvent to produce a modified polyester resin; and dispersing a colorant and the modified polyester resin to produce a colored resin particle dispersion liquid, the polycondensing and the graft-polymerizing being carried out at a temperature of 150° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Matsuoka, Yuki Sasaki, Satoshi Hiraoka, Fumiaki Mera, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20120216541
    Abstract: A pressure bulkhead has a plurality of holes and divides a low-pressure chamber at low pressure in the vertical direction. A cooling-tube bank is located in an upper section of the low-pressure chamber and performs heat exchange with low-pressure steam guided to the low-pressure chamber by introducing coolant therein to condense the low-pressure steam to low-pressure steam condensate. A reheat chamber serves as a lower section of the low-pressure chamber and stores the low-pressure steam condensate falling from the holes in the pressure bulkhead. A high-pressure-steam introducing unit introduces high-pressure steam within a high-pressure chamber at high pressure to the reheat chamber. A plurality of plate members are parallel to each other below the pressure bulkhead and extend in a falling direction of the condensate falling from the holes in the pressure bulkhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Issaku Fujita, Satoshi Hiraoka, Jiro Kasahara, Seiho Utsumi, Koichi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 8200536
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image display medium comprising a pair of substrates facing each other; and a particle group comprising two or more types of particles sealed in a space between the substrates, at least one of the two or more types of particles being positively chargeable by an external stimulus and at least one other of the two or more types of particles being negatively chargeable by an external stimulus, and the positively chargeable and negatively chargeable particles having, respectively, colors different from each other, wherein the positively chargeable and negatively chargeable particles have particle size distributions satisfying 0.4<Ds/Dl<0.9. Ds represents the particle size distribution of at least one type of particles charged with one polarity and Dl represents that of at least one other type of particles charged with the other polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yamamoto, Satoshi Hiraoka, Hidehiko Soyama, Takeshi Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20120052430
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a core particle containing a binder resin and a coating layer on the core particle. The coating layer contains a resin having a crosslinked structure formed by using at least one of boric acid and derivatives thereof, and the resin having the crosslinked structure is obtained by polymerizing monomers in the presence of the core particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Kazuhiko YANAGIDA, Susumu YOSHINO, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20120040284
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner that includes a toner particle including a binder resin containing a resin selected from an acrylic resin, a styrene-acrylic resin, and a styrene-(meth)acrylic acid ester copolymer. The resin has a crosslinked structure formed by using at least one of boric acid and boric acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi HIRAOKA, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Susumu YOSHINO, Shigeru SEITOKU, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI, Kazuhiko YANAGIDA
  • Publication number: 20120015291
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a core particle and a coating layer on the core particle. The coating layer contains a resin having a crosslinked structure formed by using at least one compound selected from boric acid and boric acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu YOSHINO, Sumiaki YAMASAKI, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Shigeru SEITOKU, Hirofumi SHIOZAKI, Kazuhiko YANAGIDA
  • Publication number: 20110269066
    Abstract: Methods and compositions including a compound represented by formula (I): wherein n represents an integer of from 1 to 4, RHL('s) each independently represents Cl or F, and R1 represents an alkyl group having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Satoshi Hiraoka, Fumiaki Mera, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8039186
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image comprises: a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises a polycondensation resin obtained by polycondensing a polycondensation monomer in the presence of a polycondensation catalyst, the releasing agent comprises a condensation compound obtained by condensing a condensation monomer in the presence of a condensation catalyst, the toner contains a metallic element derived from the polycondensation catalyst and the condensation catalyst in an amount of from 0 to 10 ppm, and the toner contains a sulfur component in an amount of from 100 to 20,000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Fumiaki Mera, Satoshi Hiraoka, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8003821
    Abstract: A Brønsted acid is a compound represented by formula (I): wherein n represents an integer of from 1 to 4, RHL('s) each independently represents Cl or F, and R1 represents an alkyl group having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Satoshi Hiraoka, Fumiaki Mera, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20110020746
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer is provided, the electrostatic image developer including: a carrier for an electrostatic image developer, the carrier including a core particle which has a plurality of projections on a surface of the core particle; and electrostatic image developing toners, wherein the electrostatic image developer satisfies following relationships of formulae (1) and (2): 0.5t<H??(1) 21/2t<L<5t??(2) wherein t represents a volume average particle diameter (?m) of the toners; H represents an average height difference (?m) in the recesses and projections of the core particle; and L represents an average distance (?m) between the projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu YOSHINO, Hideo Maehata, Satoshi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 7864406
    Abstract: The present invention provides display device particles that have positive or negative chargeability and have color and are produced using at least a calcium compound, in which a concentration of the calcium compound in the display device particle is 0.05% by weight or less in terms of a calcium element content, a process for producing the display device particles, as well as an image-display medium and an image-forming device each using the display device particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Soyama, Satoshi Hiraoka, Yasuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7776994
    Abstract: A resin particle dispersion liquid comprises: resin particles comprising polyester having terminal carboxyl groups, the polyester being obtained by polycondensation of a polycondensable monomer, wherein the polyester has the terminal carboxyl groups that are partially neutralized to form carboxyl anions, the resin particles in the resin particle dispersion liquid having a value of (da/(da+dc)) of from approximately 0.30 to approximately 0.90, when in an absorption spectrum of the resin particles measured with an infrared spectrometer, dc represents a peak intensity of the terminal carboxyl group in a range of from 1,780 to 1,680 cm?1, and da represents a peak intensity of the neutralized carboxyl anion in a range of from 1,670 to 1,550 cm?1, the polyester has an acid value of approximately 1 mg·KOH/g or more and less than approximately 15 mg·KOH/g before neutralization, the resin particles dispersion liquid comprises a divalent or higher organic acid in an amount of from approximately 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Mera, Hirotaka Matsuoka, Satoshi Hiraoka, Yuki Sasaki, Yasuo Matsumura