Patents by Inventor TADANORI KANO

TADANORI KANO 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: 20240045349
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having low-temperature fixability and excellent heat-resistant storage stability, controlling charge reduction of a developer due to development stress, and being able to maintain high image quality throughout the product life (life), and the method for producing the toner, and the developer containing the toner and the image forming device using the developer. The toner includes: toner core particles containing at least a binder resin and a release agent; and external additives externally added to surfaces of the toner core particles. The binder resin contains a crystalline polyester-based resin, the toner core particles have a viscosity at 90° C. of 100000 to 250000 Pa·s, the external additives are small size silica particles hydrophobized and barium titanate particles hydrophobized, and the barium titanate particles have an average primary particle size of 20 to 40 nm and a coverage of 2 to 7% for the toner core particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: TADANORI KANO
  • Patent number: 11835920
    Abstract: Provided is a toner characterized by including at least a negatively-charged toner master particle, and an external additive externally added onto the surface of the toner master particle, wherein the external additive includes a fine powder and a small particle size silica having an average first particle diameter smaller than that of the fine powder, and wherein the fine powder is a composition containing at least aluminum hydroxide and silica and has a surface treated with silane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadanori Kano
  • Publication number: 20220113646
    Abstract: The toner includes an external additive adhering to the surface of a toner particle. The external additive contains fine powder in which the surface of a core derived by addition of silica to strontium titanate is hydrophobized with a silane compound, and silica.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: TADANORI KANO, Takao YAMADA, HIROKI MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210255560
    Abstract: Provided is a toner characterized by including at least a negatively-charged toner master particle, and an external additive externally added onto the surface of the toner master particle, wherein the external additive includes a fine powder and a small particle size silica having an average first particle diameter smaller than that of the fine powder, and wherein the fine powder is a composition containing at least aluminum hydroxide and silica and has a surface treated with silane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: TADANORI KANO
  • Patent number: 10732531
    Abstract: A toner contains at least a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous linear polyester resin that uses diethylene glycol as an alcohol component, and a monoester wax and a montan ester wax as release agent components, wherein 6???8 and 14?mw/?<30 are satisfied, where ? represents an amount of the crystalline polyester resin added relative to 100 parts by weight of the amorphous linear polyester resin and mw represents an amount of the montan ester wax added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichi Kikawa, Yoritaka Tsubaki, Takeshi Katoh, Osamu Wada, Tadanori Kano, Yuya Kondo, Shoji Nakai, Hiroki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10725396
    Abstract: A developing device includes a first toner and a second toner that have different hues, an image carrier, a charging unit that charges the image carrier, and a potential controller that controls a potential of the charging unit. A first developing characteristic of the first toner and a second developing characteristic of the second toner have different slopes and intersect each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadanori Kano
  • Publication number: 20190361369
    Abstract: A developing device includes a first toner and a second toner that have different hues, an image carrier, a charging unit that charges the image carrier, and a potential controller that controls a potential of the charging unit. A first developing characteristic of the first toner and a second developing characteristic of the second toner have different slopes and intersect each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: TADANORI KANO
  • Publication number: 20190317418
    Abstract: A toner contains at least a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous linear polyester resin that uses diethylene glycol as an alcohol component, and a monoester wax and a montan ester wax as release agent components, wherein 6???8 and 14?mw/?<30 are satisfied, where ? represents an amount of the crystalline polyester resin added relative to 100 parts by weight of the amorphous linear polyester resin and mw represents an amount of the montan ester wax added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: KEIICHI KIKAWA, YORITAKA TSUBAKI, TAKESHI KATOH, OSAMU WADA, TADANORI KANO, YUYA KONDO, SHOJI NAKAI, HIROKI MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10185244
    Abstract: A developing device includes a magnet roller, a developing sleeve that revolves in a predetermined direction of revolution around the magnet roller, a developer tank having an opening that forms a development region by opening a part of a surface of the developing sleeve in a circumferential direction, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of a developer on the surface of the developing sleeve, and a toner residue reduction member that reduces a residue of a toner adhering directly to the surface of the developing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadanori Kano
  • Publication number: 20180088489
    Abstract: A developing device includes a magnet roller, a developing sleeve that revolves in a predetermined direction of revolution around the magnet roller, a developer tank having an opening that forms a development region by opening a part of a surface of the developing sleeve in a circumferential direction, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of a developer on the surface of the developing sleeve, and a toner residue reduction member that reduces a residue of a toner adhering directly to the surface of the developing sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: TADANORI KANO