Patents by Inventor Toma Takebayashi

Toma Takebayashi 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: 12287605
    Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles each including: a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on surfaces of the toner base particles. A standard deviation of a distance between the resin particles next to each other on the surfaces of the toner base particles is less than 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Technology, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Akinori Saitoh, Akio Takei, Toma Takebayashi, Masahiro Yukikawa
  • Patent number: 12204277
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner base particles and resin particles. Each toner base particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and wax. Each resin particle e has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, where a glass transition temperature TgA of the shell is higher than a glass transition temperature TgB of the core. A surface of each toner base particle is covered with the resin particles. A storage elastic modulus G?1 of the toner at 70° C. during heating is 1.0×105 Pa or greater but 1.0×103 Pa or less, and a storage elastic modulus G?2 of the toner at 100° C. during heating is 1.0×104 Pa or greater but 5.0×104 Pa or less, as the toner is measured by a rheometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kamada, Hiroshi Yamada, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei
  • Publication number: 20230147363
    Abstract: A toner includes: toner base particles each containing a binder resin; and resin particles on a surface of each of the toner base particles. A glass transition temperature (Tg) of the toner at the first heating in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is 20° C. or higher and 50° C. or lower. A glass transition temperature of a tetrahydrofuran (THF)-insoluble component of the toner at the first heating in DSC is ?40° C. or higher and 10° C. or lower. An average circularity of the toner is 0.970 or more and 0.985 or less. A standard deviation of the average circularity is 0.020 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Ryuuta YOSHIDA, Akio TAKEI, Ryohei YAMAGUCHI, Toma TAKEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230109578
    Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles each containing a binder resin and a release agent, and resin particles on a surface of each of the toner base particles. A ratio (Iw/Ir) is 0.10 or more and 0.30 or less, where Ir is a peak height of the binder resin and Iw is a peak height of the release agent, as measured through attenuated total reflection (ATR). A standard deviation ? (nm) of distances L (nm) between the resin particles that are adjacent to each other on the surface of each of the toner base particles is 150 nm or more and 500 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Kazumasa TABATA, Akio TAKEI, Hiroshi YAMADA, Toma TAKEBAYASHI, Ryuuta YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230014605
    Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles and external additives deposited on a surface of the toner base particle. The toner base particle includes an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, a release agent, and resin particles. An abundance ratio of the crystalline polyester resin in the surface of the toner base particle as observed by TEM is 2.5% or greater but 25% or less. The resin particles are deposited at the surface of the toner base particle as observed by SEM. A ratio of aggregates of the resin particles occupying the surface of the toner base particle is 1% or greater but 70% or less, where R is a major axis of the minimum particle of the resin particles, and the resin particle having a major axis of 3R or greater is determined as the aggregate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori SAITOH, Akio Takei, Toma Takebayashi, Masahiro Yukikawa, Tomomi Harashima, Hiroshi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220291602
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner base particles and resin particles. Each toner base particle includes a binder resin, a colorant, and wax. Each resin particle e has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell, where a glass transition temperature TgA of the shell is higher than a glass transition temperature TgB of the core. A surface of each toner base particle is covered with the resin particles. A storage elastic modulus G?1 of the toner at 70° C. during heating is 1.0×105 Pa or greater but 1.0×103 Pa or less, and a storage elastic modulus G?2 of the toner at 100° C. during heating is 1.0×104 Pa or greater but 5.0×104 Pa or less, as the toner is measured by a rheometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo KAMADA, Hiroshi Yamada, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei
  • Publication number: 20220137525
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a toner having excellent low-temperature fixing, heat-resistant-storage property, cleaning performance, and filming resistance. A toner containing toner base particles having a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin includes a plurality of organic particles disposed at least partially embedded in a surface of the toner base particles. A percentage of the crystalline polyester resin occupying the surface of the toner base particles is 4% to 20%, a volume average particle size of the organic particles is 10 nm to 40 nm, and a standard deviation of a distance between adjacent particles of the organic particles that are not in contact is 500 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuuta Yoshida, Toma Takebayashi, Akio Takei, Yasuo Kamada
  • Publication number: 20220050395
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles, each including: a toner base particle including a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein Formulae 1 to 3 below are satisfied, where M is a volume average primary particle diameter (nm) of the resin particles, and L is a distance (nm) between the resin particles present next to one another on the surface of the toner base particle: M<L;??(Formula 1) 5 (nm)<M?60 (nm); and??(Formula 2) 0.40?[M (nm)/L (nm)]<0.90.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMADA, Akinori Saitoh, Akio Takei, Yasuo Kamada, Toma Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20210356877
    Abstract: A toner includes toner base particles each including: a binder resin, a colorant, and wax; and resin particles on surfaces of the toner base particles. A standard deviation of a distance between the resin particles next to each other on the surfaces of the toner base particles is less than 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yasuo KAMADA, Hiroshi YAMADA, Akinori SAITOH, Akio TAKEI, Toma TAKEBAYASHI, Masahiro YUKIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10884350
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent. The binder resin comprises a polyester resin comprising a crystalline polyester resin. The crystalline polyester resin forms domains having a number average long diameter of from 0 to 50 nm in a cross-section of the toner. The toner satisfies the following relation: G?(50)/G?(90)?6.0×102 where G?(50) and G?(90) represent storage elastic modulus of the toner at 50 degrees C. and 90 degrees C., respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toma Takebayashi, Taichi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 10599058
    Abstract: A toner comprising a binder resin is provided. When the toner is observed with an atomic force microscope in tapping mode to obtain a phase image and the phase image is binarized with an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in the phase image to obtain a binarized image, the binarized image consists of first phase-contrast portions having a large phase difference and second phase-contrast portions having a small phase difference, where the first phase-contrast portions are dispersed in the second phase-contrast portions and a dispersion diameter of the first phase-contrast portions is in a range of from 150 to 500 nm. The toner has at least two glass transition temperatures (Tg) in respective ranges of from 40° C. to 65° C. and from ?30° C. to 20° C., determined from a DSC curve obtained at a first temperature rise in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement by a midpoint method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taichi Nemoto, Toma Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20200012206
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent. The binder resin comprises a polyester resin comprising a crystalline polyester resin. The crystalline polyester resin forms domains having a number average long diameter of from 0 to 50 nm in a cross-section of the toner. The toner satisfies the following relation: G?(50)/G?(90)?6.0×102 where G?(50) and G?(90) represent storage elastic modulus of the toner at 50 degrees C. and 90 degrees C., respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Toma TAKEBAYASHI, Taichi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 10429756
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a glittering pigment and a coloring pigment. The glittering pigment is disposed inside the toner. The coloring pigment comprises a yellow pigment comprising an isoindoline pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuoki Fuwa, Hiroshi Yamashita, Yuka Mizoguchi, Shizuka Hashida, Toma Takebayashi, Junko Yamaguchi, Maia Kamei, Keisuke Ohta
  • Publication number: 20190227449
    Abstract: A toner comprising a binder resin is provided. When the toner is observed with an atomic force microscope in tapping mode to obtain a phase image and the phase image is binarized with an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in the phase image to obtain a binarized image, the binarized image consists of first phase-contrast portions having a large phase difference and second phase-contrast portions having a small phase difference, where the first phase-contrast portions are dispersed in the second phase-contrast portions and a dispersion diameter of the first phase-contrast portions is in a range of from 150 to 500 nm. The toner has at least two glass transition temperatures (Tg) in respective ranges of from 40° C. to 65° C. and from ?30° C. to 20° C., determined from a DSC curve obtained at a first temperature rise in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement by a midpoint method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Taichi Nemoto, Toma Takebayashi
  • Publication number: 20180364600
    Abstract: A toner is provided. The toner comprises a glittering pigment and a coloring pigment. The glittering pigment is disposed inside the toner. The coloring pigment comprises a yellow pigment comprising an isoindoline pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuoki FUWA, Hiroshi Yamashita, Yuka Mizoguchi, Shizuka Hashida, Toma Takebayashi, Junko Yamaguchi, Maia Kamei, Keisuke Ohta