Patents by Inventor Sho SUMIOKA

Sho SUMIOKA 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: 11262667
    Abstract: A magnetic toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particles contain a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The external additive includes resin particles as external additive particles. The resin particles have a blocking rate of no greater than 40% by mass. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 40 nm and no greater than 120 nm. A resin constituting the resin particles is a vinyl resin including repeating units represented by general formulas (1) and (2), and a repeating unit derived from a sulfo group-containing vinyl compound. The content of the repeating unit derived from the sulfo group-containing vinyl compound in the vinyl resin is at least 0.1 mol % and no greater than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Takatsuna, Sho Sumioka
  • Patent number: 11119422
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive. The external additive includes resin particles. The toner mother particles have a chargeability opposite to a chargeability of the resin particles. Each of the resin particles has an embedded portion embedded in a surface portion of the toner mother particle and a protruding portion protruding outward from the toner mother particle in a radial direction of the toner mother particle. In a cross section of the resin particle, a relationship 0.60?LA/(LA+LB)?0.80 is satisfied where LA represents a maximum length of the embedded portion in the radial direction of the toner mother particle and LB represents a maximum length of the protruding portion in the radial direction of the toner mother particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Publication number: 20210041798
    Abstract: A magnetic toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particles contain a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The external additive includes resin particles as external additive particles. The resin particles have a blocking rate of no greater than 40% by mass. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 40 nm and no greater than 120 nm. A resin constituting the resin particles is a vinyl resin including repeating units represented by general formulas (1) and (2), and a repeating unit derived from a sulfo group-containing vinyl compound. The content of the repeating unit derived from the sulfo group-containing vinyl compound in the vinyl resin is at least 0.1 mol % and no greater than 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Toru TAKATSUNA, Sho SUMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20200174389
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive. The external additive includes resin particles. The toner mother particles have a chargeability opposite to a chargeability of the resin particles. Each of the resin particles has an embedded portion embedded in a surface portion of the toner mother particle and a protruding portion protruding outward from the toner mother particle in a radial direction of the toner mother particle. In a cross section of the resin particle, a relationship 0.60?LA/(LA+LB)?0.80 is satisfied where LA represents a maximum length of the embedded portion in the radial direction of the toner mother particle and LB represents a maximum length of the protruding portion in the radial direction of the toner mother particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA
  • Patent number: 10474048
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a core, a shell layer, and an external additive. The core contains a first thermoplastic resin as a binder resin. The shell layer partially covers a surface of the core. The external additive is attached to regions of the surface of the core that are not covered with the shell layer. The external additive includes external additive particles. The external additive particles protrude outward in radial directions of the core further than a surface of the shell layer. At least part of surfaces of the external additive particles is exposed from the shell layer. The shell layer contains a second thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin. The second thermoplastic resin has a higher softening point than the core. The shell layer has a thickness of at least 5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Publication number: 20190265604
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a core, a shell layer, and an external additive. The core contains a first thermoplastic resin as a binder resin. The shell layer partially covers a surface of the core. The external additive is attached to regions of the surface of the core that are not covered with the shell layer. The external additive includes external additive particles. The external additive particles protrude outward in radial directions of the core further than a surface of the shell layer. At least part of surfaces of the external additive particles is exposed from the shell layer. The shell layer contains a second thermoplastic resin or a thermosetting resin. The second thermoplastic resin has a higher softening point than the core. The shell layer has a thickness of at least 5 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA
  • Patent number: 10345729
    Abstract: Toner particles each include a toner mother particle and a plurality of C/S external additive particles. The toner mother particle contains a polyester resin. The C/S external additive particles each adhere to a surface of the toner mother particle and include a core particle and a plurality of shell particles. The shell particles each adhere to a surface of the core particle. The shell particles have a number average primary particle diameter of no greater than 0.40 times a number average primary particle diameter of the core particles. The core particles and the shell particles each contain a resin. The core particles have a hydrophobicity degree of at least 30%. The shell particles have a hydrophobicity degree of no greater than 5%. The C/S external additive particles have a hydrophobicity degree of at least 15% and no greater than 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Publication number: 20190004443
    Abstract: Toner particles each include a toner mother particle and a plurality of C/S external additive particles. The toner mother particle contains a polyester resin. The C/S external additive particles each adhere to a surface of the toner mother particle and include a core particle and a plurality of shell particles. The shell particles each adhere to a surface of the core particle. The shell particles have a number average primary particle diameter of no greater than 0.40 times a number average primary particle diameter of the core particles. The core particles and the shell particles each contain a resin. The core particles have a hydrophobicity degree of at least 30%. The shell particles have a hydrophobicity degree of no greater than 5%. The C/S external additive particles have a hydrophobicity degree of at least 15% and no greater than 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA
  • Patent number: 10082745
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer. The shell layer is a collection of resin particles having the same composition (primary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the resin particles: 20 nm-30 nm). The shell layer includes a first shell layer, which is a film including the resin particles in a non-aggregated state, and a second shell layer, which is a plurality of particle aggregates (secondary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the particle aggregates: 100 nm-150 nm). The particle aggregates each include the resin particles in an aggregated state. The surface of the core is entirely covered with the shell layer. The second shell layer is present in a surface of the toner particle in a proportion of at least 5% by area and no greater than 15% by area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Patent number: 10007204
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface of the core. The shell layer contains first resin particles having a number average particle diameter of 60 nm to 100 nm and second resin particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm. A particle diameter difference obtained by subtracting the number average particle diameter of the second resin particles from the number average particle diameter of the first resin particles is +20 nm to +50 nm. The first resin particles contain a charge control agent. The first resin particles have a higher softening point than the second resin particles. A ratio of a mass of the first resin particles to a sum of the mass of the first resin particles and a mass of the second resin particles is 0.7 to 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Patent number: 9964885
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. Each of the plurality of toner particles includes a toner core and a shell layer covering the toner core. The shell layer contains a thermosetting resin. A content ratio of a toner component insoluble in tetrahydrofuran is at least 90 mass % relative to mass of the toner. Melt viscosity of the toner at 75° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa·s and no greater than 1.0×105 Pa·s. The thermosetting resin is preferably a melamine resin or a urea resin. The toner core preferably contains a binder resin, and the binder resin has a softening point (Tm) of at least 85° C. and no greater than 95° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho Sumioka
  • Publication number: 20170371258
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer. The shell layer is a collection of resin particles having the same composition (primary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the resin particles: 20 nm-30 nm). The shell layer includes a first shell layer, which is a film including the resin particles in a non-aggregated state, and a second shell layer, which is a plurality of particle aggregates (secondary particle diameter of at least 90% by number of the particle aggregates: 100 nm-150 nm). The particle aggregates each include the resin particles in an aggregated state. The surface of the core is entirely covered with the shell layer. The second shell layer is present in a surface of the toner particle in a proportion of at least 5% by area and no greater than 15% by area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20170115587
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface of the core. The shell layer contains first resin particles having a number average particle diameter of 60 nm to 100 nm and second resin particles having a number average particle diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm. A particle diameter difference obtained by subtracting the number average particle diameter of the second resin particles from the number average particle diameter of the first resin particles is +20 nm to +50 nm. The first resin particles contain a charge control agent. The first resin particles have a higher softening point than the second resin particles. A ratio of a mass of the first resin particles to a sum of the mass of the first resin particles and a mass of the second resin particles is 0.7 to 0.9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA
  • Publication number: 20170010552
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. Each of the plurality of toner particles includes a toner core and a shell layer covering the toner core. The shell layer contains a thermosetting resin. A content ratio of a toner component insoluble in tetrahydrofuran is at least 90 mass % relative to mass of the toner. Melt viscosity of the toner at 75° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa·s and no greater than 1.0×105 Pa·s. The thermosetting resin is preferably a melamine resin or a urea resin. The toner core preferably contains a binder resin, and the binder resin has a softening point (Tm) of at least 85° C. and no greater than 95° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Sho SUMIOKA