Patents by Inventor Takahisa TATEKAWA

Takahisa TATEKAWA 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: 12204276
    Abstract: A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles. The aggregating includes stirring the dispersion in the aggregating at a required stirring power of 1.0 kW/m3 or more and 6.0 kW/m3 or less per unit volume, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), in which Requirement (1): a viscosity of the dispersion during the stirring is 5 Pa·s or more and 50 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1/s, where the viscosity of the dispersion is measured at a sample temperature of 25° C. using a part of the dispersion as a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa Tatekawa, Daisuke Tomita, Daisuke Noguchi, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yuji Isshiki
  • Publication number: 20250013160
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes aggregating and coalescing material particles containing colorant-containing polyester resin particles in a dispersion medium to obtain toner particles, the manufacturing method including a production step of the colorant-containing polyester resin particles, in which the production step of the colorant-containing polyester resin particles includes mixing a basic colorant and a polyester resin while applying heat to obtain a mixture, and emulsifying the mixture, and in the production step of the colorant-containing polyester resin particles, a time-weighted average T° C. of a temperature of the polyester resin and a time R seconds during which the temperature of the polyester resin is in a range of 35° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower satisfy a relationship of 200?(T×ln R)?550.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Yukiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240427257
    Abstract: Pigment-containing polyester resin particles contains a polyester resin and a pigment, in which the pigment is not exposed on a surface of the pigment-containing polyester resin particles and is not inscribed in a contour of the pigment-containing polyester resin particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuya KATO, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Takahisa TATEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240427256
    Abstract: A production method of a resin particle dispersion includes forming resin particles by emulsifying a resin, in which an acid value of the resin is 5 mgKOH/g or more and 30 mgKOH/g or less, and a carboxy group density on a surface of the resin particles is 1.0×10?7 mol/m2 or more and 3.0·10?6 mol/m2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yumi TANAKA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Takahisa TATEKAWA
  • Patent number: 12130586
    Abstract: A method for producing a resin fine particle includes dissolving or melting an oily mixture containing at least a polyester resin, a base, and a basic dye while applying a shearing force to the oily mixture, and emulsifying the dissolved or molten oily mixture by adding a surfactant and an aqueous medium while applying a shearing force to the dissolved or molten oily mixture to prepare a dispersion liquid of the resin fine particle. The resin fine particle includes the polyester resin and the basic dye, has a volume average particle diameter of 0.05 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less, and has a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle of 0.8 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tomita, Takahiro Yamashita, Yukiaki Nakamura, Takahisa Tatekawa, Masaru Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240329554
    Abstract: A toner set includes cyan, magenta, yellow, and black toners, a fluorescent toner TA having a hue angle of 125 degrees or more and 165 degrees or less, and a fluorescent toner TB having a hue angle of ?25 degrees or more and 15 degrees or less, wherein a difference between the hue angles of the fluorescent toners TA and TB is 135 degrees or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Kohei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20240329553
    Abstract: A toner set includes two colors of fluorescent toners. A difference between wavelengths of fluorescent light emitted by the two colors of fluorescent toners is 50 nm or more, and at least one of the two colors of fluorescent toners includes only an aggregation-induced emission colorant serving as a fluorescent colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Kohei MANABE, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa TATEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240319627
    Abstract: A fluorescent green toner includes toner particles including a fluorescent yellow dye Sy, a peak wavelength of a spectral reflectance of the fluorescent yellow dye Sy being at 500 nm or more and 550 nm or less, a yellow pigment Py, and at least one pigment Pgc selected from the group consisting of a green pigment and a cyan pigment, wherein CSy/(CPy+CPgc) is 0.01 or more and 0.3 or less, and (CSy+CPy)/CPgc is 0.3 or more and 1.5 or less, where CSy, CPy, and CPgc represent contents of the fluorescent yellow dye Sy, the yellow pigment Py, and the pigment Pgc in the toner particles, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Kohei MANABE
  • Patent number: 12025950
    Abstract: A resin fine particle includes a polyester resin; and a basic dye, in which a volume average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.05 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less, and a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle is 0.8 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tomita, Takahiro Yamashita, Yukiaki Nakamura, Takahisa Tatekawa, Masaru Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240184223
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a resin particle dispersion having (A) melt mixing of melting and mixing a resin mixture containing a resin, a pigment having an isoindoline skeleton, and a hydrophobic lubricant to obtain a molten mixture, and (B) emulsification of adding a surfactant and a basic compound to the molten mixture and adding an aqueous medium while applying shearing force in a range of Tm<Te<(Tm+30° C.) to melt and emulsify the molten mixture where Tm represents a softening temperature of the hydrophobic lubricant and Te represents an emulsification temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Satoshi MIURA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Yuya KATO
  • Publication number: 20240174819
    Abstract: A method for producing resin particles includes: mixing a binder resin and a dye at temperature T that satisfies formula (1) below to thereby obtain a mixture; and emulsifying the mixture, a basic compound, a water-based solvent, and a surfactant to thereby obtain a resin base particle dispersion: the melting point T1 of the dye?the temperature T?the thermal decomposition temperature T2 of the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuya KATO, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Takahisa TATEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230384701
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain an organic colorant and a binder resin, in which the organic colorant includes a non-fluorescent organic pigment and a fluorescent organic pigment, a total content of the organic colorant is 5% by mass or more and 20% by mass or less with respect to a total mass of the toner particles, and a specific gravity D1 of the non-fluorescent organic pigment and a specific gravity D2 of the fluorescent organic pigment satisfy both of Formulas (1) and (2). D1?2.0??Formula (1) D1?D2?0.6??Formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kohei MANABE, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa TATEKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230384699
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing green toner contains green toner particles containing a binder resin, an azomethine fluorescent pigment having an emission peak in a wavelength region of 500 nm or more and 550 nm or less in an emission spectrum, and a non-fluorescent pigment having a reflection peak in a wavelength region of 480 nm or more and 540 nm or less in a reflection spectrum, in which a mass-based ratio M2/M1 of a content M2 of the non-fluorescent pigment to a content M1 of the azomethine fluorescent pigment is 0.05 or more and 1.5 or less, and a total content of the azomethine fluorescent pigment and the non-fluorescent pigment with respect to a total amount of the green toner particles is 5% by mass or more and 15% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa Tatekawa, Kohei Manabe
  • Publication number: 20230384700
    Abstract: A fluorescent green toner contains toner particles containing a binder resin, a release agent, a fluorescent pigment having a hydrophilic group, and a pigment having a halogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Kohei MANABE
  • Publication number: 20230143655
    Abstract: A method for producing resin particles includes drying resin particles in a wet state by passing, without circulating, the resin particles through a drying tube together with a first gas, the resin particles being ones that undergo pressure-induced phase transition. The drying tube has an inlet through which the resin particles are fed into the drying tube, at least one gas blowhole through which a second gas is blown over the resin particles passing through the drying tube, and an outlet through which the resin particles are ejected from the drying tube, and the second gas is blown out of the gas blowhole at a velocity of 50 m/s or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Shinichi MURASE
  • Publication number: 20220373912
    Abstract: A method for producing a resin fine particle includes dissolving or melting an oily mixture containing at least a polyester resin, a base, and a basic dye while applying a shearing force to the oily mixture, and emulsifying the dissolved or molten oily mixture by adding a surfactant and an aqueous medium while applying a shearing force to the dissolved or molten oily mixture to prepare a dispersion liquid of the resin fine particle. The resin fine particle includes the polyester resin and the basic dye, has a volume average particle diameter of 0.05 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less, and has a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle of 0.8 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke TOMITA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220308477
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes aggregating at least resin particles contained in a dispersion to form aggregated particles; and heating and fusing the aggregated particles to form fused particles, in which, in the aggregating, aggregation is performed by taking out a portion of the dispersion containing the resin particles mixed in a stirring vessel, adding an aggregating agent aqueous solution thereto, passing the resulting mixture through a dispersing machine, and then returning the resulting mixture to the stirring vessel so as to circulate the dispersion, and when adding the aggregating agent aqueous solution, an aqueous solution containing an aggregating agent at a concentration of 0.1 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less is added at a flow rate q (L/min) such that a ratio of this flow rate q (L/min) to a flow rate Q (L/min) of the mixture returning from the dispersing machine to the stirring vessel is 0.01 or more and 0.1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Hiroshi NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220299897
    Abstract: A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles, The aggregating includes stirring the dispersion in the aggregating at a required stirring power of 1.0 kW/m3 or more and 6.0 kW/m3 or less per unit volume, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), in which Requirement (1): a viscosity of the dispersion during the stirring is 5 Pa·s or more and 50 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1/s, where the viscosity of the dispersion is measured at a sample temperature of 25° C. using a part of the dispersion as a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takahisa TATEKAWA, Daisuke TOMITA, Daisuke NOGUCHI, Kazuhiko NAKAMURA, Yuji ISSHIKI
  • Publication number: 20210255558
    Abstract: A resin fine particle includes a polyester resin; and a basic dye, in which an volume average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.05 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less, and a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle is 0.8 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke TOMITA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Takahisa TATEKAWA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10670982
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles containing a polyester resin having an acid value of from 10 mg KOH/g to less than 15 mg KOH/g. The toner particles have a surface with an acid value in a range from 0.3% to 1.7% of the acid value of the polyester resin. The toner particles have a melt viscosity of from 1,800 Pa·s to 3,800 Pa·s at 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamashita, Kazuya Mori, Yuta Saeki, Takahisa Tatekawa, Akitsugu Seto, Yuji Isshiki, Takashi Hara