Patents by Inventor Sho Kim

Sho Kim 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: 10180635
    Abstract: A liquid developer is characterized in that it includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the pigment includes a first pigment and a second pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Masahiro Anno, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno
  • Patent number: 9152068
    Abstract: In a liquid developer in which toner particles are dispersed in an insulating liquid, the toner particles have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin particles further contain a pigment and a dispersant for pigment, and solubility of the dispersant for pigment in the insulating liquid is not higher than 10 mass % at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Sho Kim, Satoshi Matsumoto, Naoki Yoshie, Kenji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9146488
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the resin includes a crystalline resin, the pigment includes a first pigment, a second pigment, and a third pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, the third pigment is nigrosine, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Chiaki Yamada, Masahiro Anno, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno
  • Publication number: 20140234769
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and a plurality of toner particles. The plurality of toner particles has a median size not smaller than 1 ?m and not greater than 3 ?m as a whole. In the plurality of toner particles, average circularity is not smaller than 0.90 and not greater than 0.96, and a standard deviation of circularity is not smaller than 0.02 and not greater than 0.10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIE, Masahiro ANNO, Keiko MOMOTANI, Miyuki HOTTA, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Sho KIM, Yukiko UNO
  • Publication number: 20140234770
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and a plurality of toner particles. The plurality of toner particles has a volume-based median size not smaller than 0.5 ?m and not greater than 3 ?m as a whole, and a volume-based coefficient of variation not lower than 40% and not higher than 130%. The plurality of toner particles includes a first toner particle group of the toner particles having a particle size not greater than 1 ?m. The number of toner particles constituting the first toner particle group occupies not lower than 20% of the total number of toner particles. The toner particles in the first toner particle group have an average circularity not smaller than 0.945.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Miyuki HOTTA, Masahiro Anno, Naoki Yoshie, Keiko Momotani, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno, Satoshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140134536
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the resin includes a crystalline resin, the pigment includes a first pigment, a second pigment, and a third pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, the third pigment is nigrosine, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiaki YAMADA, Masahiro Anno, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno
  • Publication number: 20140134537
    Abstract: A liquid developer is characterized in that it includes toner particles and an insulating liquid, the toner particles include a resin and a pigment, the pigment includes a first pigment and a second pigment, the first pigment is carbon black, the second pigment is C.I. Pigment Brown 23 and/or C.I. Pigment Brown 25, and 20 to 60% by mass of the pigment is included relative to the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiaki YAMADA, Masahiro Anno, Sho Kim, Yukiko Uno
  • Publication number: 20140087302
    Abstract: In a liquid developer in which toner particles are dispersed in an insulating liquid, the toner particles have a core-shell structure that first resin particles containing a first resin are attached to or cover surfaces of second resin particles containing a second resin. The second resin particles further contain a pigment and a dispersant for pigment, and solubility of the dispersant for pigment in the insulating liquid is not higher than 10 mass % at 25° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Sho KIM, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Naoki YOSHIE, Kenji HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8362198
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin particle capable of unprecedentedly realizing both excellent heat resistant keeping property and melting property. The present invention is a method for producing a resin particle (X) comprising the step of treating a resin particle (B) containing a resin (A) composed of a crystalline part (a) containing, as an essential constitutional component, a polyester (p1) not containing an aromatic ring or a polyester (p2) containing an aromatic ring, and produced by polycondensation of a polyol component and a polycarboxylic acid component, and a noncrystalline part (b), with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide (C), and removing (C), wherein a heat of fusion measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the obtained (X) satisfies the following relational formula (1): 0?H2/H1?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shindo, Sho Kim
  • Patent number: 8362197
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin particle capable of unprecedentedly realizing both excellent heat resistant keeping property and melting property. The present invention is a method for producing a resin particle (X) comprising the step of treating a resin particle (B) containing a resin (A) composed of a crystalline part (a) containing, as an essential constitutional component, a polyester (p1) not containing an aromatic ring or a polyester (p2) containing an aromatic ring, and produced by polycondensation of a polyol component and a polycarboxylic acid component, and a noncrystalline part (b), with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide (C), and removing (C), wherein a heat of fusion measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the obtained (X) satisfies the following relational formula (1): 0?H2/H1?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shindo, Sho Kim
  • Publication number: 20110144287
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin particle capable of unprecedentedly realizing both excellent heat resistant keeping property and melting property. The present invention is a method for producing a resin particle (X) comprising the step of treating a resin particle (B) containing a resin (A) composed of a crystalline part (a) containing, as an essential constitutional component, a polyester (p1) not containing an aromatic ring or a polyester (p2) containing an aromatic ring, and produced by polycondensation of a polyol component and a polycarboxylic acid component, and a noncrystalline part (b), with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide (C), and removing (C), wherein a heat of fusion measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the obtained (X) satisfies the following relational formula (1): 0?H2/H1?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shindo, Sho Kim
  • Publication number: 20110060110
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a resin particle capable of unprecedentedly realizing both excellent heat resistant keeping property and melting property. The present invention is a method for producing a resin particle (X) comprising the step of treating a resin particle (B) containing a resin (A) composed of a crystalline part (a) containing, as an essential constitutional component, a polyester (p1) not containing an aromatic ring or a polyester (p2) containing an aromatic ring, and produced by polycondensation of a polyol component and a polycarboxylic acid component, and a noncrystalline part (b), with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide (C), and removing (C), wherein a heat of fusion measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of the obtained (X) satisfies the following relational formula (1): 0?H2/H1?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shindo, Sho Kim