Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Furuta

Tsutomu Furuta 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: 20230108440
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner has toner particles that contain a binder resin, a release agent, and resin particles, in which a loss coefficient tan ? (1%) of the resin particles at a melting temperature Tw of the release agent and a strain of 1% and a loss coefficient tan ? (100%) of the resin particles at the melting temperature Tw of the release agent and a strain of 100% satisfy the following Expression (1) and the following Expression (2). 0.02?tan ?(1%)?0.5??Expression (1): 0.4?tan ?(100%)?tan ?(1%)?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230103824
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin and resin particles and an external additive that contains inorganic particles, in which a loss coefficient tan?a of the resin particles at 40° C. and 0.1 rad/s satisfies 0.1 < tan?a < 1.0, a loss coefficient tan?b of the resin particles at 40° C. and 10 rad/s satisfies 1.3 < tan?b < 3.0, and in a case where a strain of 0.005% is applied to the toner at 40° C., a stress relaxation time ? of the toner satisfies 5 seconds < ? < 500 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tsutomu FURUTA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230099316
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner that has a binder resin that contains a crystalline resin and toner particles that contain resin particles, in which a loss coefficient tan ?S (30) at 30° C. of the resin particles is 1 or more, and a loss coefficient tan ?S (50) at 50° C. of the resin particles is less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Erina SAITO, Tomohito NAKAJIMA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Tsutomu FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20230098401
    Abstract: A method of producing resin particles includes a first step of adding a monomer-containing emulsified liquid that contains a polymerizable monomer and an aqueous medium to an aqueous mother medium to polymerize the polymerizable monomer; and a second step of adding an aqueous medium for cooling to the aqueous mother medium after completion of the addition of the monomer-containing emulsified liquid to the aqueous mother medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daisuke TOMITA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Daisuke ISHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 11422043
    Abstract: A pressure sensor 1 according to the first aspect of the invention includes: a substrate 50; and a functional element 40 which is laid on the substrate 50 and is composed of functional titanium oxide including crystal grains of at least one of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and having the property that at least a portion of crystal grains of at least one of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) change into crystal grains of titanium dioxide (TiO2) when the functional titanium oxide is heated to 350° C. or higher. The substrate 50 includes a substrate thin-film section 51 having a thin film form in which the thickness in the stacking direction of the substrate 50 and the functional element 40 is smaller than that in the other directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nakamura, Tsutomu Furuta, Hiroyoshi Yoden, Mitsuo Yaguchi, Takeshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 11332381
    Abstract: A functional element includes functional titanium oxide. The functional titanium oxide includes crystal grains of one or more of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5). The functional titanium oxide includes the property that at least a portion of crystal grains of one or more of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) changes into crystal grains of titanium oxide (TiO2) when the functional titanium oxide is heated to 350° C. or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Nakamura, Tsutomu Furuta, Hiroyoshi Yoden
  • Publication number: 20200285163
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development includes: a binder resin; and a coloring agent. When an image with a toner mass per unit area of 4.0 g/m2 is formed using the toner, the image has a color that satisfies the following conditions (A), (B), and (C): (A) L* is from 37 to 50 inclusive; (B) is from ?12 to 8 inclusive; and (C) b* is from ?49 to ?40 inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu FURUTA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10754268
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development includes: a binder resin; and a coloring agent. When an image with a toner mass per unit area of 4.0 g/m2 is formed using the toner, the image has a color that satisfies the following conditions (A), (B), and (C): (A) L* is from 37 to 50 inclusive; (B) a* is from ?12 to 8 inclusive; and (C) b* is from ?49 to ?40 inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Furuta, Masaru Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200024150
    Abstract: A time-dependent element of the present invention includes a time-dependent phase transition material that undergoes solid-solid phase transition developing with time after production irrespective of the presence of an external stimulus, in which one or more physical properties of the time-dependent element selected from a group consisting of composition, volume, transmittance, reflectance, electric resistance, and magnetic property change with time. A physical property temporal change prediction device includes a physical property temporal change prediction device body having the time-dependent element and is configured to predict a temporal change in one or more physical properties selected from a group consisting of composition, volume, transmittance, reflectance, electric resistance, and magnetic property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka NAKAMURA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Hiroyoshi YODEN
  • Patent number: 10429755
    Abstract: A white toner for electrostatic image development includes white toner particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment. When in a circularity distribution of the white pigment determined by sectional observation of the white toner particles, the cumulative 10% circularity from the smaller side is C10, and the cumulative 50% circularity is C50, the following formula (1) and formula (2) are satisfied. 0.900?C50?1.000??Formula (1): 1.00?C50/C10?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Murakami, Tsutomu Furuta
  • Patent number: 10423087
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle and a strontium titanate particle that is externally added to the toner particle, in which an average primary particle diameter of the strontium titanate particle that is present on a surface of the toner particle is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and average primary particle circularity is 0.82 or more and 0.94 or less, and in which circularity that becomes 84% of accumulation of the primary particle is greater than 0.92.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moegi Iguchi, Sakon Takahashi, Soutaro Kakehi, Yuka Yamagishi, Yutaka Saito, Mona Tasaki, Tsutomu Furuta, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Satoshi Kamiwaki
  • Publication number: 20190285489
    Abstract: a pressure sensor 1 according to the first aspect of the invention includes: a substrate 50; and a functional element 40 which is laid on the substrate 50 and is composed of functional titanium oxide including crystal grains of at least one of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and having the property that at least a portion of crystal grains of at least one of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) change into crystal grains of titanium dioxide (TiO2) when the functional titanium oxide is heated to 350° C. or higher. The substrate 50 includes a substrate thin-film section 51 having a thin film form in which the thickness in the stacking direction of the substrate 50 and the functional element 40 is smaller than that in the other directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka NAKAMURA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Hiroyoshi YODEN, Mitsuo YAGUCHI, Takeshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190196348
    Abstract: A white toner for electrostatic image development includes white toner particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment. When in a circularity distribution of the white pigment determined by sectional observation of the white toner particles, the cumulative 10% circularity from the smaller side is C10, and the cumulative 50% circularity is C50, the following formula (1) and formula (2) are satisfied. 0.900?C50?1.000 ??Formula (1) 1.00?C50/C10?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Tsutomu FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20190185338
    Abstract: A functional element includes functional titanium oxide. The functional titanium oxide includes crystal grains of one or more of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5). The functional titanium oxide includes the property that at least a portion of crystal grains of one or more of ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) and ?-phase trititanium pentoxide (?-Ti3O5) changes into crystal grains of titanium oxide (TiO2) when the functional titanium oxide is heated to 350° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshitaka NAKAMURA, Tsutomu FURUTA, Hiroyoshi YODEN
  • Publication number: 20190033737
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle and a strontium titanate particle that is externally added to the toner particle, in which an average primary particle diameter of the strontium titanate particle that is present on a surface of the toner particle is 30 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and average primary particle circularity is 0.82 or more and 0.94 or less, and in which circularity that becomes 84% of accumulation of the primary particle is greater than 0.92.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Moegi IGUCHI, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Soutaro KAKEHI, Yuka YAMAGISHI, Yutaka SAITO, Mona TASAKI, Tsutomu FURUTA, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Satoshi KAMIWAKI
  • Patent number: 9835962
    Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic image-developing toner containing a binder resin, a coloring agent and a release agent having a melting temperature of 85° C. to 120° C., the toner having a sea-island structure involving a sea part containing the binder resin and an island part containing the release agent, wherein a mode value of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B of the release agent-containing island part, represented by the specific formula, is from 0.75 to 1.00 and a skewness of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B is from ?1.30 to ?0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kamiwaki, Akira Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Satoshi Miura, Atsushi Sugawara, Yukiaki Nakamura, Kana Yoshida, Yutaka Saito, Sakon Takahashi, Yasuaki Hashimoto, Koji Sasaki, Tsutomu Furuta
  • Patent number: 9442404
    Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic-image-developing toner containing: a toner particle which contains a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent, and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and in which the styrene (meth)acrylic resin forms a domain having a number average diameter of 300 nm to 800 nm in the toner particle; and an inorganic particle in which the number average diameter of the domain is from 1.5 times to 10 times the number average particle diameter of the inorganic particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Saito, Sakon Takahashi, Yasuaki Hashimoto, Tsutomu Furuta, Yuka Yamagishi
  • Publication number: 20160091810
    Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic image-developing toner containing a toner particle containing a binder resin and a release agent and having a sea-island structure involving a sea part containing the binder resin and an island part containing the release agent, in which a mode value of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B represented by the specific formula of the release agent-containing island part is from 0.75 to 0.98 and a skewness of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B is from ?1.10 to ?0.50; and an external additive containing a silica particle having a volume average particle diameter of 80 nm to 200 nm; wherein a bulk density of the toner is from 0.33 g/cm3 to 0.40 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu FURUTA, Yutaka SAITO, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO, Sakon TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160085165
    Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic image-developing toner containing a binder resin, a coloring agent and a release agent having a melting temperature of 85° C. to 120° C., the toner having a sea-island structure involving a sea part containing the binder resin and an island part containing the release agent, wherein a mode value of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B of the release agent-containing island part, represented by the specific formula, is from 0.75 to 1.00 and a skewness of the distribution of the eccentricity degree B is from ?1.30 to ?0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Akira MATSUMOTO, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Satoshi MIURA, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Kana YOSHIDA, Yutaka SAITO, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO, Koji SASAKI, Tsutomu FURUTA
  • Publication number: 20150268576
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant, and strontium titanate particles, wherein the strontium titanate particles have a volume average particle diameter of 800 nm to 10,000 nm, a maximum peak at a Bragg angle of 32.2° in CuK? characteristic X-ray diffraction, and a half-value width of the maximum peak equal to or greater than 0.5 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yutaka SAITO, Satoshi INOUE, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi KAMADA, Tsutomu FURUTA