Abstract: Toner housing container includes: container body mountable on toner conveying device and housing toner supplied into toner conveying device; conveying portion provided in container body and conveying toner from longer direction one end of container body to other end at which container opening portion is provided; pipe receiving port provided at container opening portion and receiving conveying pipe fixed to toner conveying device; and uplifting portion to move toner conveyed by conveying portion toward toner receiving port of conveying pipe. Toner has loose apparent density of 0.28 g/cm3 to 0.53 g/cm3. Container body includes protruding portion protruding from container body interior side of container opening portion toward one end. Uplifting portion includes uplifting wall surface extending from internal wall surface of container body toward protruding portion, and curving portion curving to conform to protruding portion.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner including: a binder resin; a colorant; and a wax, wherein the intensity ratio of an absorbance at 2,850 cm?1 derived from the wax to an absorbance at 828 cm?1 derived from the binder resin, represented by “absorbance derived from the wax/absorbance derived from the binder resin”, is in the range of 0.1 to 0.5, where the absorbances are measured by FTIR-ATR, and the intensity ratio serves as a value for determining the amount of the wax present within 0.3 ?m in depth from surfaces of particles of the toner after the toner has been heated to 140° C. and then cooled, and wherein the toner has a storage elastic modulus of 5,000 Pa or greater at 140° C.

Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner, including: toner base particles including a polyester resin as a binder resin; and an external additive on the surface of the toner base particles. The external additive includes silica. The silica is produced by sol-gel method, and is aspherical. The percentage of change in the specific surface area of the toner when it is stored under high-temperature, high-humidity conditions is from 25% to 45%.

Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains silica particles containing first silica particles, and second silica particles, wherein the toner is a toner produced by depositing the silica particles on surfaces of base particles, the first silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 75 nm to 250 nm, the second silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm, a mass ratio of the first silica particles to the base particles is 0.010 to 0.040, a mass ratio of the second silica particles to the base particles is 0.005 to 0.030, a liberation ratio of the silica particles from the toner by a ultrasonic vibration method is 5% by mass to 20% by mass, and an amount of particles having primary particle diameters of 30 nm or smaller in the silica particles librated from the toner by the ultrasonic vibration method is 20% by number or less.

Abstract: An image forming toner, including a mother particle including a paraffin wax having a melting point of from 60 to 90° C. and a binder resin, wherein the mother particle has an endothermic peak of the paraffin wax of from 2.0 J/g to 5.5 J/g when measured by a DSC and an aspect ratio of from 0.8 to 0.90.

Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm2) G?(Tfb) satisfying G?(Tfb)?1×104 where Tfb is a flow onset temperature (° C.) of the low molecular weight resin component as measured by a capillary rheometer: A=|[(r1)?ln G?(r2)]/(T1?T2)|??Formula (1) (where T1 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r1) is 1×105 (dyne/cm2) and T2 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r2) is 1×103 (dyne/cm2) as measured by means of a viscoelasticity measuring device with measuring frequency of 1 Hz, and measuring distortion of 1 deg; and | | represents an absolute value.).

Abstract: To provide an image forming method including conveying a toner by means of a toner supply device that supplies the toner from inside a toner housing container into a developer housing section of a developing device with the use of a screw pump, and forming an image on a recording medium by developing a latent image on a latent image bearing member to form a toner image with the use of a developer and by transferring the toner image to the recording medium by means of a transfer device, wherein the toner is formed by adding small particle size silica to toner base particles, and wherein when A represents the average degree of circularity of the toner, and B, expressed as percent by mass, represents the amount of the small particle size silica relative to the mass of the toner base particles, the expression ?18A+17.92?B??34A+33.96 is satisfied.

Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent has an endothermic peak temperature of 60° C. to 80° C. at the second temperature rising in differential scanning calorimetry, and wherein the releasing agent is an ester wax which satisfies the following expressions (1) and (2): 1.1 Pa·s??*a?2.0 Pa·s . . . Expression (1) 0.001??*b/?*a?1.00 . . . Expression (2) where in Expressions (1) and (2), ?*a denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 6.28 rad/s, and ?*b denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 62.8 rad/s.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having a structure analogous to firefly luciferin. In particular, the invention relates to a heterocycle compound which produces a luminescence at a light wavelength different from that of firefly luciferin in nature. The present invention provides a heterocycle compound of following general formula I. In the above general formula, R1, R2 and R3 can be each independently H or C1-4-alkyl. In the above general formula, X and Y can be each independently C, N, S or O. In the above general formula, the olefin chain part expressed as “n” can be changed to desired length.

Abstract: A developing device, including: a developer bearing member, which is disposed opposite to an electrostatic latent image bearing member and which bears thereon a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image bearing member and conveys the developer to a developing region, wherein the developer includes a toner and a carrier, the toner containing: a toner base containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains coalescent particles each made up of a plurality of coalescing primary particles, and wherein a work function Wc of the carrier and a work function Ws of the developer bearing member satisfy a relationship of the following formula (1): Ws?Wc?0.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the toner includes the inorganic fine particles as an external additive on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the toner base particles have a BET specific surface area of 2.5 m2/g to 5.0 m2/g, and wherein the inorganic fine particles comprise inorganic fine particles (A) which are each a secondary particle where a plurality of primary particles are coalesced together.

Abstract: A toner including: toner base particles; and external additive, the toner base particles each comprising binder resin and colorant, wherein the external additive comprises coalesced particles, the coalesced particles are each a non-spherical secondary particle in which primary particles are coalesced together, and an index of a particle size distribution of the coalesced particles is expressed by Formula (1): Db 50 Db 10 ? 1.

Abstract: A toner including: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the external additive comprises non-spherical particles and spherical particles, wherein the non-spherical particles are each a secondary particle in which spherical primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the non-spherical particles and the spherical particles in the external additive satisfy a relationship expressed by the following formula (1): 3Ca(%)<Cb(%)??Formula (1) where Ca is greater than 10% but smaller than 20% and Cb is greater than 40% but smaller than 70%, and Ca and Cb are values given by: Ca = ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( % ? ? by ? ? mass ) / 100 ) × ( a ? ? projected ? ? area ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( cm 2 ? / ? g ) ) ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ?

Abstract: A toner set, including: a transparent toner including a binder resin a, a releasing agent a and no colorant; and one or more color toners, each including a binder resin b, a colorant b and a releasing agent b, wherein the binder resin a includes a non-crystalline resin ? and a crystalline resin ?, the binder resin b includes a non-crystalline resin ? and a crystalline resin ?, the releasing agent a has an average particle diameter as a long diameter of 0.2 ?m to 2.0 ?m, and there is a relationship of 1<A/B<1.5, where A is an area of the releasing agent a in a transparent toner cross-section from a surface thereof to a ?-depth of a volume-average particle diameter, and B is an area of the releasing agent b in a color-toner cross-section from a surface thereof to a ?-depth of a volume-average particle diameter.

Abstract: Electrostatic image developing toner particles including: a crystalline polyester resin; a non-crystalline polyester resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the electrostatic image developing toner particles have a glass transition temperature of 40° C. to 60° C. where the glass transition temperature is measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and wherein the electrostatic image developing toner particles have an adhesive force between the toner particles of 1.4 mN to 2.2 mN where the adhesive force between the toner particles is measured after the electrostatic image developing toner particles have been stored at 50° C.

Abstract: A toner containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the colorant contains a mixed crystal of a C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185 and a C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139, and wherein a mass ratio of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185 to the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139 (mass of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185/mass of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139) in the toner is 95/5 to 50/50.

Abstract: The toner includes a binder resin; a colorant; and a release agent. The first inter-particle force Fp(A) of the toner, which is measured under an environmental condition of 23° C. and 60% RH after the toner is pressed for 1 minute at 25° C. under a compression stress of 15 kg/cm2, is from 1.0×10?9 (N) to 1.0×10?6 (N). The difference (Fp(B)?Fp(A)) between the second inter-particle force Fp(B) of the toner, which is measured under the environmental condition of 23° C. and 60% RH after the toner is pressed for 1 minute at 50° C. under a compression stress of 15 kg/cm2, and the first inter-particle force Fp(A) is 0 (N) to 1.0×10?7 (N).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrophotographic photosensitive member using plasma CVD includes steps of placing a cylindrical base member in a reactor which can be evacuated, the reactor having an electrode therein, so as to be spaced apart from the electrode, introducing a raw material gas for deposited film formation into the reactor, and applying an alternating voltage of a rectangular wave having a frequency in the range of 3 kHz to 300 kHz between the electrode and the cylindrical base member so that a potential at one of the electrode and the cylindrical base member with respect to a potential at the other becomes alternately positive and negative, to decompose the raw material gas, and forming a deposited film on the cylindrical base member. The magnitude of the potential difference between the electrode and the cylindrical base member is selectively controlled.

Abstract: An image forming method including charging an image bearing member by applying combination of DC voltage and AC voltage with frequency of 6.5 to 8.5 cycle/mm; irradiating the image bearing member with light to form an electrostatic image; developing the electrostatic image with a developer including toner to form a toner image; transferring the toner image onto a receiving material; fixing the toner image; cleaning the image bearing member with a blade; then applying a lubricant to the image bearing member; and then spreading the lubricant with a spreading member countering the image bearing member. The toner includes toner particles granulated in an aqueous medium; and at least three kinds of external additives including a first particulate hydrophobic silica, a particulate hydrophobic titanium oxide and a second particulate hydrophobic silica respectively having BET specific surface areas of 20 to 40 m2/g, 40 to 80 m2/g, and 130 to 300 m2/g.

Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm2) G?(Tfb) satisfying G?(Tfb)?1×104 where Tfb is a flow onset temperature (° C.) of the low molecular weight resin component as measured by a capillary rheometer: A=|[ln G?(r1)?ln G?(r2)]/(T1?T2)|??Formula (1) (where T1 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r1) is 1×105 (dyne/cm2) and T2 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r2) is 1×103 (dyne/cm2) as measured by means of a viscoelasticity measuring device with measuring frequency of 1 Hz, and measuring distortion of 1 deg; and ? represents an absolute value.