Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Murakami

Tsuyoshi Murakami 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: 10324389
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge developing toner includes a toner particle that includes a pigment particle having a surface aluminum proportion by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of 6.0 atom % or more and 12.0 atom % or less and a binder resin having a carboxy group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Sakamoto, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Tomoaki Tanaka, Masaki Iwase, Ryutaro Kembo
  • Publication number: 20190094729
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge developing toner includes a toner particle that includes a pigment particle having a surface aluminum proportion by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of 6.0 atom % or more and 12.0 atom % or less and a binder resin having a carboxy group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya SAKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Tomoaki TANAKA, Masaki IWASE, Ryutaro KEMBO
  • 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: 10119022
    Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition, including: a polycarbonate resin (A) containing a polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A-1) having a specific structure; a copolymer (B) having constituent units derived from acrylonitrile and styrene, and being free of a constituent unit derived from methyl methacrylate; a copolymer (C) having constituent units derived from butadiene and methyl methacrylate; and a flame retardant (D), the resin composition satisfying a predetermined expression (a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10066101
    Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin molding material for articles to be coated, containing a polycarbonate resin (A) containing a polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A-1) having a specific structure, and a copolymer (B) having a constituent unit derived from butadiene, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane block moiety in entirety of the molding material is in the range of 0.50 to 10% by mass and a content of the constituent unit derived from butadiene in entirety of the molding material is in the range of 1 to 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Aoki, Yoshio Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180230305
    Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition, including: a polycarbonate resin (A) containing a polycarbonate-polyorganosiloxane copolymer (A-1) having a specific structure; a copolymer (B) having constituent units derived from acrylonitrile and styrene, and being free of a constituent unit derived from methyl methacrylate; and a copolymer (C) having constituent units derived from butadiene and methyl methacrylate, in which: a content of the polyorganosiloxane block moiety in the entire resin composition is from 0.1 mass % to 10 mass %; a total of a content of the constituent unit derived from the acrylonitrile in the entire resin composition and a content of the constituent unit derived from the styrene in the entire resin composition is from 8 mass % to 45 mass %; a content of the constituent unit derived from the butadiene in the entire resin composition is from 3 mass % to 10 mass %; and the (A) has a viscosity-average molecular weight (Mv) of from 20,000 to 25,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio OKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10042275
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment, wherein, in a particle size distribution of a maximum Feret diameter of particles of the white pigment present in the toner particle, a ratio of particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 200 nm or more and less than 400 nm is 50% by number or more with respect to the entire particles of the white pigment, and a maximum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 650 nm or more and less than 1,000 nm is larger than a minimum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 500 nm or more and less than 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Iwase, Atsushi Sugawara, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Kana Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20180187001
    Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin (A); and a polyether compound (B) having a polyoxyalkylene structure, in which: the polycarbonate resin composition includes 0.005 part by mass to 5 parts by mass of the polyether compound (B) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin (A); and the polycarbonate resin composition satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) and (2): (1) an amount of potassium in the polyether compound (B) is 6 ppm by mass or less; and (2) an amount of sodium in the polyether compound (B) is 1 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Yamazaki, Masami Takimoto, Tsuyoshi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180143550
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image includes toner particles that each include a binder resin and a release agent. The ratio B/A of a half-width B of an exothermic peak Tc resulting from the release agent which is determined in a first cooling step by differential scanning calorimetry to a half-width A of an endothermic peak Tm resulting from the release agent which is determined in a first heating step prior to the first cooling step by differential scanning calorimetry is 1.5 or more and 4 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Kana YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Masaki IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180143552
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle which contains a crystalline resin, an amorphous resin, and at least one of an inorganic pigment and a metallic pigment, wherein in differential scanning calorimetry, an endothermic peak Tm (° C.) derived from the crystalline resin in a first temperature rising process and an exothermic peak Tc (° C.) derived from the crystalline resin in a first temperature falling process after the first temperature rising process are present, and a relationship expressed by Tm>Tc is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Kana YOSHIDA, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Masaki IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180113392
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment, wherein, in a particle size distribution of a maximum Feret diameter of particles of the white pigment present in the toner particle, a ratio of particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 200 nm or more and less than 400 nm is 50% by number or more with respect to the entire particles of the white pigment, and a maximum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 650 nm or more and less than 1,000 nm is larger than a minimum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 500 nm or more and less than 650 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki IWASE, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Kana YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9946182
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a white pigment, wherein a maximum frequent value in distribution of eccentricity B of the white pigment represented by the following Expression (1) is from 0.75 to 0.95, and a skewness in the distribution of the eccentricity B is from ?1.20 to 0.00: Expression (1): eccentricity B=2d/D, wherein D represents an equivalent circle diameter (?m) of a toner particle in observation of the cross section of the toner particle, and d represents a distance (?m) from the centroid of the toner particle to the centroid of the white pigment in observation of the cross section of the toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Murakami, Atsushi Sugawara, Kana Yoshida, Masaki Iwase
  • Patent number: 9921507
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles each including a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin. In a micro-compression test where a load of 0.2 mN is applied to the toner particles at a loading rate of 0.098 mN/sec, the median of a distribution of the ratios (%) of deformations of the toner particles to the diameters of the toner particles is 8.0 or more and 18.0 or less, and a variation in the distribution of the ratios of deformations of the toner particles to the diameters of the toner particles is 0.02 or more and 0.40 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180067414
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a white pigment, wherein a maximum frequent value in distribution of eccentricity B of the white pigment represented by the following Expression (1) is from 0.75 to 0.95, and a skewness in the distribution of the eccentricity B is from ?1.20 to 0.00: Expression (1): eccentricity B=2d/D, wherein D represents an equivalent circle diameter (?m) of a toner particle in observation of the cross section of the toner particle, and d represents a distance (?m) from the centroid of the toner particle to the centroid of the white pigment in observation of the cross section of the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Kana YOSHIDA, Masaki IWASE
  • Publication number: 20180062570
    Abstract: A mounting tool pressing a solar cell module against a seat member has a configuration including an upper surface abutment portion that abuts against the upper surface of the module, a side surface abutment portion that abuts against the side surface of the module, a base portion that extends from the side surface abutment portion, an insertion hole that penetrates through the base portion and through which the bolt is inserted, a bolt upper abutment portion that is a portion of an inner circumferential surface of the insertion hole against which an upper portion of an external thread portion of the bolt is made to abut, and a bolt lower abutment portion with which a lower portion of the external thread portion is made to abut, and a height H of the side surface abutment portion is set to be smaller than a height h1 of the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Yanegijutsukenkyujo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI, Takayoshi YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 9904196
    Abstract: A white toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes a white toner particle containing a binder resin and a white pigment particle, wherein, when a number average circle equivalent diameter of the white pigment particles, which are observed in a sectional image of the white toner particle, is taken as A, and a number average circle equivalent diameter of the white pigment particles, which are present in a surface layer portion within 35% from a surface of the white toner particle with respect to a particle diameter thereof, is taken as B, a relationship expressed by A>B is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kana Yoshida, Atsushi Sugawara, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Masaki Iwase
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170277073
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles each including a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin. In a micro-compression test where a load of 0.2 mN is applied to the toner particles at a loading rate of 0.098 mN/sec, the median of a distribution of the ratios (%) of deformations of the toner particles to the diameters of the toner particles is 8.0 or more and 18.0 or less, and a variation in the distribution of the ratios of deformations of the toner particles to the diameters of the toner particles is 0.02 or more and 0.40 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9678449
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle which has a sea portion containing a binder resin and an island portion containing a release agent, wherein a melt viscosity at 100° C. of the toner is from 4,000 to 200,000 Pa·s, a flow activation energy of the toner is 18,000 to 80,000 J·mol?1, a maximum frequent value in distribution of eccentricity B of the island portion is from 0.75 to 0.98, a skewness in the distribution of the eccentricity B is from ?1.10 to ?0.50, and the eccentricity B is expressed by 2d/D, wherein D indicates an equivalent circle diameter (?m) of the toner in an observation of a cross-section of the toner, and d indicates a distance (?m) from a centroid of the toner to a centroid of the island portion containing the release agent in the observation of a cross-section of the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Murakami, Atsushi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9671708
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle that has a sea-island structure including a sea portion containing a binder resin and an island portion containing a release agent and having at least two maximum values of distribution of a degree of uneven distribution B of the island portion shown by the following Equation (1): degree of uneven distribution B=2d/D??Equation (1) in Equation (1), D represents an equivalent circle diameter (?m) of the toner particle obtained by cross section observation of the toner particle, and d represents a distance (?m) between the center of gravity of the toner particle and the center of gravity of the island portion containing the release agent obtained by cross section observation of the toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kana Yoshida, Atsushi Sugawara, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Yukiaki Nakamura