Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Sugimoto

Tsuyoshi Sugimoto 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: 20140023965
    Abstract: Toner contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a resin having a polyhydroxy carboxylic acid skeleton, wherein the toner has a half effusion temperature of from 80° C. to 120° C. as measured by a temperature rising method using a flow tester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Susumu CHIBA, Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Daisuke ASAHINA, Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Taichi NEMOTO, Satoyuki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20130337374
    Abstract: To provide a toner including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of 20° C. or greater and less than 50° C., an endothermic peak temperature by DSC of 50° C. or greater and less than 80° C. and an amount of compressive deformation at 50° C. by a thermomechanical analysis of 5% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Susumu CHIBA, Satoyuki SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8592117
    Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin component; crystal nucleating agent; releasing agent; and colorant, wherein the binder resin component contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, the crystal nucleating agent is at least one of an aliphatic ester compound and an aliphatic amide compound each having a melting point of 60° C. or higher but lower than 150° C., and wherein the toner satisfies Expressions (I) and (II): Tc>Tp+10??Expression (I) Tm>Tp+2??Expression (II) where Tp denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve obtained DSC of the crystalline polyester resin, Tc denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve obtained DSC of the crystal nucleating agent, and Tm denotes lowest exothermic peak temperature [° C.] in 0° C. to 200° C. in DSC curve through DSC of the mixture of the crystalline polyester resin and the crystal nucleating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Masaki Watanabe, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Rintaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8557491
    Abstract: A toner according to the present invention contains at least a polyester resin as a binder resin, a colorant, a releasing agent, a fixing-assisting component, and a fatty acid, wherein the fixing-assisting component has a melting point of 60° C. to 120° C. and contains at least one of an esterified compound obtained by esterification of the fatty acid and an amide compound obtained by amidation of the fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Naohito Shimota, Hiroshi Yamashita, Naohiro Watanabe, Shinichi Wakamatsu, Masaki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130209931
    Abstract: A toner including base particles each containing a crystalline polyester and a non-crystalline polyester, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature of 45° C. or higher where the glass transition temperature is determined from a DSC curve of the toner obtained in the first elevation of temperature thereof, and wherein the toner has a temperature width of 8° C. or lower where the temperature width is a temperature width at ? the height of an endothermic peak attributed to the crystalline polyester in the DSC curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Sato, Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinya Hanatani, Mamoru Hozumi
  • Patent number: 8501379
    Abstract: A toner containing base particles produced by dissolving and/or dispersing a toner material in an organic solvent so as to prepare a toner material solution, and emulsifying and/or dispersing the toner material solution in an aqueous medium, wherein the toner material contains a binder resin and a releasing agent, the binder resin contains a polyester resin, and the releasing agent is a hydrocarbon wax which is modified with a carboxylic acid or carboxylic anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20130196263
    Abstract: An electrostatic image forming toner including: toner base particles each containing at least a colorant, a binder resin, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a non-crystalline polyester resin A and a crystalline polyester resin B, wherein a ratio of B/(A+B)×100 is 10 or more but less than 50 where (A+B) is a total mass of the non-crystalline polyester resin A and the crystalline polyester resin B and “B” is a mass of the crystalline polyester resin B, and wherein the toner base particles have a TMA compression deformation amount (TMA %) of 10% or less which is measured at 50° C. and a relative humidity of 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Daisuke Asahina, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Rintaro Takahashi, Hiroshi Yamashita, Taichi Nemoto, Shingo Sakashita, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Satoyuki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 8486596
    Abstract: A toner produced by a method including dissolving or dispersing toner components comprising a colorant and at least one of a binder resin and a precursor thereof in an organic solvent to prepare a toner components liquid, dispersing the toner components liquid in an aqueous medium including a surfactant, a particulate resin A having the same polarity as the surfactant and a volume average particle diameter of from 5 to 50 nm, and a particulate resin B having a volume average particle diameter of from 10 to 500 nm to form liquid droplets, and removing the organic solvent from the liquid droplets. The particulate resin B is incompatible with the binder resin and swells in the organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Naohiro Watanabe, Shinichi Wakamatsu
  • Publication number: 20130177846
    Abstract: To provide a toner, containing: a binder resin; a colorant; a releasing agent; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein the toner satisfies the following formulae (1) to (3): 40° C.?X?55° C. Formula (1) 85° C.?Y?92° C. Formula (2) 35° C.?Y?X?50° C. Formula (3) where X is an onset temperature and Y is an endset temperature of an endothermic peak on a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve of the toner as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Mamoru Hozumi, Tomoyuki Sato, Shinya Hanatani
  • Publication number: 20130171557
    Abstract: To provide a toner containing: a binder resin containing a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a colorant; and wax, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula 1, and has loss tangent of 1 or smaller at 80° C. or higher, B?A<20 Formula 1 where A represents a melting point of the crystalline polyester resin and B represents a temperature at which the toner has storage modulus G? of 20,000 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Mamoru Hozumi, Osamu Uchinokura
  • Publication number: 20130171554
    Abstract: A yellow toner including: a non-crystalline resin; C.I. Pigment Yellow 185; and a releasing agent, wherein the yellow toner has a glass transition temperature of more than 18° C. but less than 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Masana Shiba, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Yukari Fukuda, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20130157184
    Abstract: To provide a toner, including at least: a non-crystalline polyester resin; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature in a first heating Tg1st and a glass transition temperature in a second heating Tg2nd, and a difference between Tg1st and Tg2nd (Tg1st?Tg2nd) is 10° C. or greater, and wherein the crystalline polyester resin is a modified crystalline polyester resin having a urethane skeleton or a urea skeleton, or both thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Masahide Yamada, Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Shingo Sakashita
  • Publication number: 20130157193
    Abstract: A toner containing colorant, releasing agent, and binder resin containing crystalline polyester resin, and non-crystalline polyester resin containing urethane bond, urea bond, or both, the non-crystalline polyester resin containing first and second non-crystalline polyester resins, both containing urethane bond, or urea bond, or both, wherein monomers constituting the first non-crystalline polyester resin contains isocyanate monomer for forming the urethane bond, the urea bond, or the both, in an amount of 0.5 mol % or greater to total amount of the monomers, monomers constituting the second non-crystalline polyester resin contain isocyanate monomer for forming the urethane bond, the urea bond, or the both, in an amount of 0.5 mol % or greater to total amount of the monomers, the first non-crystalline polyester resin has Tg of ?60° C. or higher but lower than 10° C., and the second non-crystalline polyester resin has Tg of 30° C. or higher but lower than 70° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Tatsuru MORITANI, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Daisuke Asahina, Rintaro Takahashi, Susumu Chiba
  • Patent number: 8455172
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner, containing: dispersing, in an aqueous medium, an oil phase which contains an organic solvent, and a binder resin component contained in the organic solvent, where the binder resin component contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin; and removing the organic solvent from the dispersion to obtain the toner, in which the dispersing further contains heating and dissolving the crystalline polyester and the amorphous polyester in the organic solvent to obtain a solution, cooling the solution so as to recrystallize the crystalline polyester resin, and mechanically pulverizing the recrystallized crystalline polyester resin so as to obtain a crystalline polyester dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Awamura, Hiroshi Yamashita, Teruki Kusahara, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Tomomi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8431304
    Abstract: A toner containing: a non-crystalline polyester resin; a crystalline polyester resin; a releasing agent; a graft-modified polymer; and a colorant, wherein the graft-modified polymer is a polymer having a glass transition temperature of higher than 40° C. but lower than 80° C., and obtained by grafting an acrylic resin onto at least one of a hydrocarbon wax and a crystalline polyester resin, and wherein a SP value of the non-crystalline polyester resin is defined as SP1, a SP value of the crystalline polyester resin is defined as SP2, a SP value of the releasing agent is defined as SP3, and a SP value of the graft-modified polymer is defined as SP4, and SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP4 satisfy relations represented by Formulas (1) to (3): SP1 > SP4 > SP2 >SP3 Formula (1), 0.1 < SP1 ? SP4 < 1.0 Formula (2), and 0.1 < SP4 ? SP2 < 1.0 Formula (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Naohiro Watanabe, Osamu Uchinokura, Tomoyuki Satoh, Shinya Hanatani, Mamoru Hozumi
  • Publication number: 20130059247
    Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains: a non-crystalline polyester resin A obtained through a reaction between a non-linear chain reactive precursor and a curing agent, and having a glass transition temperature of ?60° C. to 0° C.; a non-crystalline polyester resin B having a glass transition temperature of 40° C. to 70° C.; and a crystalline polyester resin C, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature Tg1st of 20° C. to 40° C. as measured with first heating in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Hiroshi Yamashita, Daisuke Asahina, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Rintaro Takahashi, Masana Shiba, Yukari Fukuda, Saki Konno
  • Publication number: 20130022371
    Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm2) G?(Tfb) satisfying G?(Tfb)?1×104 where Tfb is a flow onset temperature (° C.) of the low molecular weight resin component as measured by a capillary rheometer: A=|[ln G?(r1)?ln G?(r2)]/(T1?T2)|??Formula (1) (where T1 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r1) is 1×105 (dyne/cm2) and T2 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r2) is 1×103 (dyne/cm2) as measured by means of a viscoelasticity measuring device with measuring frequency of 1 Hz, and measuring distortion of 1 deg; and ? represents an absolute value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruki Kusahara, Junichi Awamura, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Hyo Shu, Tomomi Suzuki, Osamu Uchinokura, Takahiro Honda, Satoshi Kojima, Satoshi Ogawa, Daisuke Inoue, Koshi Sato, Daisuke Ito, Ryuuta Yoshida, Syouko Satoh
  • Publication number: 20130011778
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner obtained from a dispersion or emulsion liquid of an oil phase containing a toner material in an aqueous medium, the toner including: a binder resin, wherein the toner material includes: (A) an epoxy resin prepolymer; (B) an adduct of a dihydric phenol with a polyalkylene oxide; (C) a phenolic compound, or an alcohol compound, or both thereof; and (D) a carboxylic acid compound, and wherein the binder resin includes a resin obtained by allowing the (A), the (B), the (C) and the (D) to react with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMASHITA, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Daisuke Asahina, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Masaki Watanabe, Rintaro Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120295193
    Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin containing a crystalline resin and a non-crystalline resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has ½ flow onset temperature T½ of 120° C. to 135° C., and wherein a peak intensity ratio of an intensity of a peak derived from the crystalline resin and the releasing agent to an intensity of a peak derived from the binder resin as measured in FTIR-ATR is 0.10 to 0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Shinya HANATANI, Naohiro WATANABE, Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Tomoyuki SATOH, Mamoru HOZUMI
  • Patent number: 8293442
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin particle having a volume average particle diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm, obtained by polymerizing an addition polymerizable monomer containing a silsesquioxane (a) represented by Formula (I) or by copolymerizing the silsesquioxane (a) with an addition polymerizable monomer (b), where R1 to R7 each independently represent a group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl; any hydrogen in the alkyl group is optionally substituted by fluorine and any —CH2— is optionally substituted by —O—, —CH?CH—, cycloalkylene or cycloalkenylene; any hydrogen in alkylene in the arylalkyl group is optionally substituted by fluorine and any —CH2— is optionally substituted by —O— or —CH?CH—; and A1 represents an addition polymerizable functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., JNC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Naohito Shimota, Hiroshi Yamashita, Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinichi Wakamatsu, Kenya Itoh, Mikio Yamahiro