Patents by Inventor Takashi Kenmoku
Takashi Kenmoku 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).
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Publication number: 20210405549Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a resin A, and an external additive A, wherein the resin A is a resin represented by formula (1) below, the resin A is present at the surface of the toner particle, the external additive A is a fine particle containing silicon, the average value of the shape factor SF-1 of the external additive A is from 105 to 120, the average value of the shape factor SF-2 of the external additive A is from 100 to 130.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Kenji Ookubo, Yu Yoshida, Takashi Kenmoku, Taku Shimoda, Masashi Kawamura, Akane Masumoto, Takayuki Toyoda
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Patent number: 11175600Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a binder resin, where a volume resistivity ?·cm of an unfixed solid image on a recording material on which the solid image has been formed using the toner at a toner laid-on level of 0.4 mg/cm2 is denoted by Tv, and a volume resistivity ?·cm of the solid image after fixing by applying heat and pressure to the recording material is denoted by Fv, Tv/Fv?8 is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Uchiyama, Tetsuya Sano, Tomoaki Nakai, Takashi Kenmoku, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino
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Patent number: 11169458Abstract: A toner including a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin, and a shell on the surface of the toner base particle; the shell contains a metal compound and an organosilicon polymer; the shell has at least an exposed portion of the metal compound and an exposed portion of the organosilicon polymer, on the surface of the toner particle; and in an analysis of a cross section of the toner particle by TEM-EDX, Ha (nm) and Hb (nm) which are average distances from the interface of the toner base particle and the shell up to the toner particle surface at the exposed portion of the metal compound and at the exposed portion of the organosilicon polymer, respectively, on the toner particle surface, satisfy Expression (1) below: Hb>Ha+20.0??(1).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Noritaka Toyoizumi, Takashi Kenmoku, Yuzo Seino, Kenta Kamikura, Yu Yoshida, Akane Masumoto
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Publication number: 20210026265Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin and includes a protruded portion on a surface of the toner base particle; the protruded portion comprises an organosilicon polymer and a polyhydric acid metal salt; and the polyhydric acid metal salt is present on a surface of the protruded portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Takashi Kenmoku, Noritaka Toyoizumi, Akane Masumoto, Yuzo Seino, Yu Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210026268Abstract: Provided is a process cartridge detachably attachable to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the process cartridge including: a developing unit including a toner; and an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the toner includes a toner particle, the toner particle has a surface containing a polyvalent acid metal salt particle, and a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains at least one metal oxide particle among an aluminum oxide particle, a silicon dioxide particle, and a tin oxide particle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Takeshi Murakami, Kazunori Noguchi, Harunobu Ogaki, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino, Takashi Kenmoku
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Publication number: 20210026264Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner has G1 of from 5.0×10?13 to 1.0×10?10, and a ratio G2/G1 of G2 to G1 is from 0.10 to 0.60, when a conductivity of the toner measured at a frequency of 0.01 Hz under a pressure of 1,000 kPa is designated by G1 in S/m, and a conductivity of the toner measured at a frequency of 0.01 Hz under a pressure of 100 kPa is designated by G2 in S/m.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Kenta Kamikura, Takashi Kenmoku, Yuzo Seino
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Publication number: 20210026263Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a binder resin, where a volume resistivity ?·cm of an unfixed solid image on a recording material on which the solid image has been formed using the toner at a toner laid-on level of 0.4 mg/cm2 is denoted by Tv, and a volume resistivity ?·cm of the solid image after fixing by applying heat and pressure to the recording material is denoted by Fv, Tv/Fv?8 is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Akihiko Uchiyama, Tetsuya Sano, Tomoaki Nakai, Takashi Kenmoku, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino
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Publication number: 20210026262Abstract: A toner containing a toner particle, wherein, when a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan ?50° C.(1), and a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 30° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH after the impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan ?30° C.(2), tan ?50° C.(1) is from 0.015 to 0.050, the relationship tan ?50° C.(1)>tan ?30° C.(2) is satisfied, and tan ?30° C.(2)/tan ?50° C.(1) is from 0.25 to 0.66.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino
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Publication number: 20210026260Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus in which fogging is reduced so as to reduce an amount of toner consumed. A process cartridge configured to be detachably attachable to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus includes a developing unit containing a toner, and an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the toner is a toner that has a toner particle, and has a metal salt of a polyvalent acid at least on a part of a surface of the toner particle; wherein the metal salt of the polyvalent acid includes at least one kind of metal element selected from metal elements belonging to from Group 3 to Group 13, and a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains an acrylic resin or a methacrylic resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Kazunori Noguchi, Takeshi Murakami, Harunobu Ogaki, Kenta Kamikura, Yuzo Seino, Takashi Kenmoku
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Publication number: 20210026261Abstract: Provided are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each of which is reduced in fogging for reducing a toner consumption. Specifically, provided is a process cartridge, which is removably mounted onto a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the process cartridge including: a developing unit containing a toner; and an electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the toner is a toner including a toner particle, and has a polyvalent acid metal salt on at least part of a surface of the toner particle, wherein the polyvalent acid metal salt includes at least one kind of metal element selected from metal elements belonging to from Group 3 to Group 13, and wherein a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a resin including a siloxane segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Harunobu Ogaki, Kazunori Noguchi, Takeshi Murakami, Takashi Kenmoku, Yuzo Seino, Kenta Kamikura
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Publication number: 20210026266Abstract: A toner including a toner particle, wherein the toner particle includes a toner base particle containing a binder resin, and a shell on the surface of the toner base particle; the shell contains a metal compound and an organosilicon polymer; the shell has at least an exposed portion of the metal compound and an exposed portion of the organosilicon polymer, on the surface of the toner particle; and in an analysis of a cross section of the toner particle by TEM-EDX, Ha (nm) and Hb (nm) which are average distances from the interface of the toner base particle and the shell up to the toner particle surface at the exposed portion of the metal compound and at the exposed portion of the organosilicon polymer, respectively, on the toner particle surface, satisfy Expression (1) below:Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Noritaka Toyoizumi, Takashi Kenmoku, Yuzo Seino, Kenta Kamikura, Yu Yoshida, Akane Masumoto
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Patent number: 10747136Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle having a binder resin and a colorant, and metal titanate fine particles, wherein the toner particle includes a polyvalent metal element having an electric resistivity of from 2.5×10?8 ?·m to 10.0×10?8 ?·m; the amount of the polyvalent metal element in the toner particle is from 0.080 ?mol/g to 20.000 ?mol/g; the metal titanate fine particles have a perovskite crystal structure; and the number average particle diameter of primary particles of the metal titanate fine particles is from 10 nm to 80 nm.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Shota Amano, Tomohiro Unno, Hirofumi Kyuushima
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Publication number: 20190332027Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle having a binder resin and a colorant, and metal titanate fine particles, wherein the toner particle includes a polyvalent metal element having an electric resistivity of from 2.5×10?8 ?·m to 10.0×10?8 ?·m; the amount of the polyvalent metal element in the toner particle is from 0.080 ?mol/g to 20.000 ?mol/g; the metal titanate fine particles have a perovskite crystal structure; and the number average particle diameter of primary particles of the metal titanate fine particles is from 10 nm to 80 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Shota Amano, Tomohiro Unno, Hirofumi Kyuushima
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Patent number: 10114303Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a polyester resin A and a wax, wherein the polyester resin A contains a specific amount of an isosorbide unit based on a total number of monomer units constituting the polyester resin A, the content of the polyester resin A is a specific amount, and when observing a cross-section of the toner, twenty toner particle cross-sections are selected that have a major axis R (?m) that satisfies a specific relationship with respect to the weight-average diameter D4 (?m) of the toner, each major axis r that have the largest major axis is measured for those domains composed of wax present in the selected toner particle cross-sections, and the arithmetic mean (r/R)st of the determined r/R satisfies a specific relationship.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Taiji Katsura, Yasushi Katsuta, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Takashi Kenmoku, Shohei Shibahara, Tsutomu Shimano
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Publication number: 20180210361Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a polyester resin A and a wax, wherein the polyester resin A contains a specific amount of an isosorbide unit based on a total number of monomer units constituting the polyester resin A, the content of the polyester resin A is a specific amount, and when observing a cross-section of the toner, twenty toner particle cross-sections are selected that have a major axis R (?m) that satisfies a specific relationship with respect to the weight-average diameter D4 (?m) of the toner, each major axis r that have the largest major axis is measured for those domains composed of wax present in the selected toner particle cross-sections, and the arithmetic mean (r/R)st of the determined r/R satisfies a specific relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Taiji Katsura, Yasushi Katsuta, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Takashi Kenmoku, Shohei Shibahara, Tsutomu Shimano
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Publication number: 20170060008Abstract: It is intended to provide an image forming method, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have favorable cleaning properties and can suppress reduction in image quality caused by the contamination of a charging member. A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member satisfies the condition (i) or (ii), and toner contains a resin having an isosorbide unit: (i) containing a fluorine resin particle and at lease one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyarylate resin and a polycarbonate resin, and (ii) containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyarylate resin and a polycarbonate resin each having a polysiloxane structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Atsushi Okuda, Yuki Yamamoto, Kazunori Noguchi, Yuka Ishiduka, Takashi Kenmoku, Shohei Shibahara, Taiji Katsura, Yasuhiro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9423714Abstract: A toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a charge control resin, wherein the charge control resin is a polymer that contains a unit A and a unit B, the unit A is a unit derived from 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, the unit B is a unit derived from an electron donor compound that has a polymerizable unsaturated group, and a molar ratio between the unit A and the unit B is from 1.0 to 10.0.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Shintaro Kawaguchi, Naotaka Ikeda, Yasuhiro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9223240Abstract: Since a charge amount of a toner and a charge rise characteristic thereof are liable to be influenced by the change in temperature and humidity condition, the change in image density occurs in printing, and in particular, in high temperature and high humidity environment, inconveniences, such as image fogging, occur due to non-uniformity of the charge amount distribution. In a toner including toner particles obtained by dispersing a monomer composition containing a polymerizable monomer and a colorant in an aqueous medium to form droplets and polymerizing the polymerizable monomer in the droplets, the toner particles contain a polymer formed by a polymerization reaction of the polymerizable monomer and a metal compound having a vinyl group.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Hitoshi Itabashi, Akane Masumoto
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Publication number: 20150248071Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a polyester resin A and a wax, wherein the polyester resin A contains a specific amount of an isosorbide unit based on a total number of monomer units constituting the polyester resin A, the content of the polyester resin A is a specific amount, and when observing a cross-section of the toner, twenty toner particle cross-sections are selected that have a major axis R (?m) that satisfies a specific relationship with respect to the weight-average diameter D4 (?m) of the toner, each major axis r that have the largest major axis is measured for those domains composed of wax present in the selected toner particle cross-sections, and the arithmetic mean (r/R)st of the determined r/R satisfies a specific relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Taiji Katsura, Yasushi Katsuta, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Takashi Kenmoku, Shohei Shibahara, Tsutomu Shimano
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Publication number: 20150241806Abstract: A toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a charge control resin, wherein the charge control resin is a polymer that contains a unit A and a unit B, the unit A is a unit derived from 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, the unit B is a unit derived from an electron donor compound that has a polymerizable unsaturated group, and a molar ratio between the unit A and the unit B is from 1.0 to 10.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Shintaro Kawaguchi, Naotaka Ikeda, Yasuhiro Hashimoto