Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Karato

Toshihiko Karato 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: 20230205106
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. Each toner particle includes a binder resin, a release agent, a colorant, and particles. The particles are metal particles, or halogen particles, or both. A metal constituting the metal particles may have a monovalent or higher ionic valence. An abundance X of the particles is within a range represented by 3 ?m2?X ?m2?10 ?m2. X ?m2 is the abundance X that is an area of the particles present in a surface portion of each of the toner particles as measured by SEM-EDX with setting acceleration voltage to 1 kV. A declining rate of the particles is 80% to 100%. Y ?m2 is an abundance Y that is an area of the particles present in a surface portion of each of the toner particles as measured by the SEM-EDX with setting acceleration voltage to 3 kV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunki KATSUMATA, Toshihiko Karato, Taro Araki, Shintaro Akiyama
  • Patent number: 8546053
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a toner, the method including: preparing a wax dispersion liquid by cooling a wax solution, in which a wax is heated and dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent, in a container so that a standard deviation ? of a temperature distribution between a center portion of the container and an inner wall of the container is 0.5 or less and the cooling rate is 2.0° C./min or more, to precipitate wax particles in the wax solution; forming toner base precursor particles by adding an aqueous phase containing resin fine particles into an oil phase containing at least the wax dispersion liquid, a colorant and a binder resin and mixing the oil phase and the aqueous phase with each other; and preparing toner base particles by removing the solvent from the toner base precursor particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Junichi Awamura, Tomomi Suzuki, Toshihiko Karato
  • Patent number: 8367292
    Abstract: A toner including a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a releasing agent, the toner formed by dispersing a toner liquid material which is prepared by dispersing the binder resin, the prepolymer, an elongation agent and/or a cross-linking agent for the prepolymer, the coloring agent, and the releasing agent in an organic solvent, dispersing the toner liquid material in an aqueous medium to obtain a liquid dispersion in at least one of cross linking reaction and elongation reaction, and removing the organic solvent from the liquid dispersion, and the toner satisfying the following relationship: 1.35< or =M(g)/M(p)< or =1.90, where M(g) represents the content of the gel composition formed in the at least one of cross linking reaction and elongation reaction and M(P) represents the content of the prepolymer in the toner liquid material when the total of M(P) and the content of the binder resin in the toner liquid material is set to be 100 g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Junichi Awamura, Tomomi Suzuki, Toshihiko Karato
  • Publication number: 20110200929
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrostatic image developing toner capable of improving the dispersibility of wax in the toner and superior in offset resistance and in storageability (heat-resistant storageability) at high temperatures, and a two-component developer which uses this electrostatic image developing toner. The electrostatic image developing toner includes: a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, wherein the binder resin contains a polyester resin, and a block copolymer which has a polyolefin backbone unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Toshihiko Karato, Masahide Yamada, Junichi Awamura, Tomomi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100209838
    Abstract: A toner including a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a releasing agent, the toner formed by dispersing a toner liquid material which is prepared by dispersing the binder resin, the prepolymer, an elongation agent and/or a cross-linking agent for the prepolymer, the coloring agent, and the releasing agent in an organic solvent, dispersing the toner liquid material in an aqueous medium to obtain a liquid dispersion in at least one of cross linking reaction and elongation reaction, and removing the organic solvent from the liquid dispersion, and the toner satisfying the following relationship: 1.35< or =M(g)/M(p)< or =1.90, where M(g) represents the content of the gel composition formed in the at least one of cross linking reaction and elongation reaction and M(P) represents the content of the prepolymer in the toner liquid material when the total of M(P) and the content of the binder resin in the toner liquid material is set to be 100 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Teruki KUSAHARA, Junichi AWAMURA, Tomomi SUZUKI, Toshihiko KARATO
  • Publication number: 20100062352
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a toner, the method including: preparing a wax dispersion liquid by cooling a wax solution, in which a wax is heated and dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent, in a container so that a standard deviation ? of a temperature distribution between a center portion of the container and an inner wall of the container is 0.5 or less and the cooling rate is 2.0° C./min or more, to precipitate wax particles in the wax solution; forming toner base precursor particles by adding an aqueous phase containing resin fine particles into an oil phase containing at least the wax dispersion liquid, a colorant and a binder resin and mixing the oil phase and the aqueous phase with each other; and preparing toner base particles by removing the solvent from the toner base precursor particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Junichi Awamura, Tomomi Suzuki, Toshihiko Karato