Patents by Inventor Shinya Obara

Shinya Obara 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: 20220397838
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including: toner base particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment; and an external additive, wherein silica particles are contained as the external additive, and the following relational expression (1) is satisfied, Relational expression (1): 0.70?Wh_Si(B)/Wh_Si(A)?0.95, in the above relational expression (1), Wh_Si (A) represents an NET intensity of a Si element contained in the white electrostatic latent image developing toner measured by wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and Wh_Si (B) represents an NET intensity of a Si element contained in the white electrostatic latent image developing toner that has been ultrasonically dispersed in water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Junya UEDA, Yohei MARUYAMA, Shinya OBARA
  • Publication number: 20220390873
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development including: toner particles containing toner base particles and an external additive disposed on a surface of the toner base particles; and carrier particles having a core material particle and a shell portion disposed on a surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles surface-modified with a surface modifier represented by the following Formula (1); and a value of an iron element content (atomic %) measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on a surface of the carrier particles satisfies the following Expression (1), (R1)4-n—Si—(X)n??Formula (1): 4.0?{AFe/(Ac+Ao+AFe)}×100?15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya OBARA, Koji SHIBATA, Ikuko SAKURADA
  • Patent number: 11079694
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic charge image development is a toner for electrostatic charge image development including toner particles containing a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin, the external additive includes Al—Si composite oxide particles, and a Si element content of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 50 to 90 mass % and a Si element ratio on surfaces of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 3 to 35 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenshi Miyajima, Shinya Obara, Ikuko Sakurada
  • Publication number: 20200292952
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic charge image development is a toner for electrostatic charge image development including toner particles containing a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin, the external additive includes Al—Si composite oxide particles, and a Si element content of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 50 to 90 mass % and a Si element ratio on surfaces of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 3 to 35 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kenshi MIYAJIMA, Shinya OBARA, Ikuko SAKURADA
  • Patent number: 10698331
    Abstract: To provide a two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development, the two-component developer enabling a high image quality to be kept and enabling the occurrence of fogging to be suppressed even in continuous printing of an image high in coverage rate. The two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development includes a toner particle including a toner base particle and an external additive disposed on the surface of the toner base particle, and a carrier particle including a core material particle and a covering section disposed on the surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive includes an alumina particle, and the percentage of exposed area of the core material particle is 4.0% or more and 15.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Obara, Koji Shibata, Junya Ueda, Takuya Takahashi, Satoshi Uchino
  • Publication number: 20200174388
    Abstract: It is a two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development, which contains toner containing at least a binder resin and an external additive on a surface and a carrier containing a resin layer at least on a surface of a core material. The binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin, the external additive contains alumina particles, and the resin layer contains a silicone resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Koji SHIBATA, Shinya OBARA, Junya UEDA, Takuya TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10606183
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
  • Patent number: 10585368
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner containing toner mother particles having external additives on a surface of the mother particle, wherein the external additives contains calcium titanate particles having an average primary particle size in the range of 50 to 150 nm, and alumina particles; and an average primary particle size of the alumina particles is less than the average primary particle size of the calcium titanate particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Junya Ueda, Shinya Obara, Takuya Takahashi, Ikuko Sakurada, Satoshi Uchino
  • Patent number: 10509338
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image containing: toner particles having toner mother particles and an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles; and carrier particles, wherein the external additive contains alumina particles; the alumina particles are subjected to a surface modification with a hydrophobilizing agent; among the hydrophobilizing agent existing on the surface of the alumina particles after the surface modification, a ratio of the hydrophobilizing agent in a state of being liberated from the surface is 20% or less when extraction treatment is performed under a predetermined condition; the alumina particles have a number average primary particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm; and the carrier particles have a resin covering layer, and the resin covering layer is formed with an alicyclic (meth)acrylate monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ikuko Sakurada, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190354032
    Abstract: To provide a two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development, the two-component developer enabling a high image quality to be kept and enabling the occurrence of fogging to be suppressed even in continuous printing of an image high in coverage rate. The two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development includes a toner particle including a toner base particle and an external additive disposed on the surface of the toner base particle, and a carrier particle including a core material particle and a covering section disposed on the surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive includes an alumina particle, and the percentage of exposed area of the core material particle is 4.0% or more and 15.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shinya OBARA, Koji SHIBATA, Junya UEDA, Takuya TAKAHASHI, Satoshi UCHINO
  • Patent number: 10437166
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image incorporating: toner particles each containing a toner mother particle having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particle; and carrier particles each having a core material particle and a covering layer containing a resin on a surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles; the inorganic particles are subjected to surface modification with silicone oil; a carbon content remained on a surface of the inorganic particle after the surface modification is within 3.0 to 10.0 mass %; a free carbon ratio on the surface of the inorganic particle is 70.0% or more; the carrier particles have a resistance in the range of 1.0×109 to 5.0×1010 ?·cm; and the resin in the covering layer contains a resin formed from a monomer containing an alicyclic methacrylic acid ester monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Shinya Obara, Satoshi Uchino
  • Publication number: 20190278192
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
  • Patent number: 10409189
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns an electrostatic latent image developer including: a toner having toner base particles and an external additive; and a carrier, wherein the external additive contains silicone oil-treated silica and titanium oxide, Net intensity of titanium (Ti) in the toner to be measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.5 to 5 kcps, the carrier has a resin coating layer coating core material particles, and the resin coating layer has a constituent unit formed from an alicyclic (meth)acrylic acid ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Junya Ueda, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Takuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190243272
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image containing: toner particles having toner mother particles and an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles; and carrier particles, wherein the external additive contains alumina particles; the alumina particles are subjected to a surface modification with a hydrophobilizing agent; among the hydrophobilizing agent existing on the surface of the alumina particles after the surface modification, a ratio of the hydrophobilizing agent in a state of being liberated from the surface is 20% or less when extraction treatment is performed under a predetermined condition; the alumina particles have a number average primary particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm; and the carrier particles have a resin covering layer, and the resin covering layer is formed with an alicyclic (meth)acrylate monomer
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Ikuko SAKURADA, Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai
  • Publication number: 20190212666
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner containing toner mother particles having external additives on a surface of the mother particle, wherein the external additives contains calcium titanate particles having an average primary particle size in the range of 50 to 150 nm, and alumina particles; and an average primary particle size of the alumina particles is less than the average primary particle size of the calcium titanate particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Junya UEDA, Shinya Obara, Takuya Takahashi, Ikuko Sakurada, Satoshi Uchino
  • Publication number: 20190137902
    Abstract: Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image incorporating: toner particles each containing a toner mother particle having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particle; and carrier particles each having a core material particle and a covering layer containing a resin on a surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles; the inorganic particles are subjected to surface modification with silicone oil; a carbon content remained on a surface of the inorganic particle after the surface modification is within 3.0 to 10.0 mass %; a free carbon ratio on the surface of the inorganic particle is 70.0% or more; the carrier particles have a resistance in the range of 1.0×109 to 5.0×1010 ?·cm; and the resin in the covering layer contains a resin formed from a monomer containing an alicyclic methacrylic acid ester monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Shinya Obara, Satoshi Uchino
  • Patent number: 10241432
    Abstract: An electrostatically charged image developing toner includes a particulate toner matrix containing an external additive on the surface of the particulate toner matrix. The external additive includes silica particles A and silica particles B. The silica particles A have a number average primary-particle diameter in the range of 40 to 100 nm and an average circularity in the range of 0.50 to 0.90, and are surface-modified with silicone oil. The silica particles B have a number average primary-particle diameter of 25 nm or more and smaller than the number average primary-particle diameter of the silica particles A, and are surface-modified with alkylalkoxysilane having a specific structure or silazane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Obara, Satoshi Uchino, Junya Ueda, Takuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10234778
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including a particulate toner matrix and an external additive adhering to a surface of the particulate toner matrix. The particulate toner matrix includes a crystalline polyester resin. The external additive includes silica particles. The silica particles are secondary particles including primary particles having a diameter in the range of 30 to 90 nm. The secondary particles have an average circularity in the range of 0.25 to 0.50. The secondary particles have an average aspect ratio of 3.0 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Junya Ueda, Takuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190056679
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles having silica particles as an external additive on surfaces of toner base particles, wherein surfaces of a part or all of the silica particles are modified with silicone oil, and the following relational formula (1) is satisfied. 0.30?Si(B)/Si(A)?0.65??relational formula (1) [In the relational formula (1), Si(A) represents a NET intensity of a Si element contained in the electrostatic latent image developing toner, measured by a wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyzer. Si(B) represents a NET intensity of a Si element contained in the electrostatic latent image developing toner ultrasonically dispersed in water, measured by a wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Junya UEDA, Satoshi UCHINO, Shinya OBARA, Takuya TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10168630
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images, including toner particles containing an external additive on surfaces of toner matrix particles. The external additive contains at least a lanthanum-containing titanate compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Shinya Obara, Futoshi Kadonome