Patents by Inventor Yasuo Kadokura

Yasuo Kadokura 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: 20220308485
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains a silica particle, and a ratio of Si on a surface of the coating resin layer, determined by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), is 6 atom % or more and 12 atom % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Karin Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220308492
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier, contains: a magnetic particle; and a coating resin layer coating the magnetic particle and containing inorganic particles, in which an area ratio of the inorganic particles that is a ratio of a total area of the inorganic particles to an area of the coating resin layer in a cut surface of the coating resin layer along a thickness direction of the coating resin layer is 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220308491
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle and contains an inorganic particle, and the following relation 1 is satisfied: 0<(C?A)/(B?A)?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220299905
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier contains a magnetic particle and a resin coating layer coating the magnetic particle, in which the resin coating layer contains inorganic particles, a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the carrier to a plan view area A of the carrier that are obtained by three-dimensional analysis of a surface of the carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, a volume average particle diameter of the magnetic particle is 25 ?m or more and 34 ?m or less, and a fluidity of the magnetic particle is 28 s/50 g or more and 36 s/50 g or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo Kadokura, Takuro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11181847
    Abstract: A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (?m) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (?m) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007?D/T?0.24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shintaro Anno, Takuro Watanabe, Yasuaki Hashimoto, Yasuo Kadokura, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Jumpei Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20210278773
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, an average thickness of the resin layer is 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei IWASAKI, Yasuo Kadokura, Shintaro Anno, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Satoshi Miura
  • Publication number: 20210271180
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an exposed area ratio of the magnetic particles is 0.1% or more and 4.0% or less, an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Shintaro ANNO, Satoshi MIURA, Jumpei IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20210109454
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particles. The toner particles has a volume particle diameter distribution index on a side of the largest diameter (GSDv (90/50)) of 1.26 or less; a number particle diameter distribution index on a side of the smallest diameter (GSDp (50/10)) of 1.28 or less; GSDv (90/50)/GSDp (50/10) of from 0.96 to 1.01; and an average circularity of 0.95 or more and 1.00 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Satoshi MIURA, Akira MATSUMOTO, Sakiko HIRAI, Yasuo KADOKURA
  • Publication number: 20210088924
    Abstract: A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (?m) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (?m) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007?D/T?0.24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro ANNO, Takuro WATANABE, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO, Yasuo KADOKURA, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Jumpei IWASAKI
  • Patent number: 10908523
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particles. The toner particles has a volume particle diameter distribution index on a side of the largest diameter (GSDv (90/50)) of 1.26 or less; a number particle diameter distribution index on a side of the smallest diameter (GSDp (50/10)) of 1.28 or less; GSDv (90/50)/GSDp (50/10) of from 0.96 to 1.01; and an average circularity of 0.95 or more and 1.00 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugawara, Satoshi Miura, Akira Matsumoto, Sakiko Hirai, Yasuo Kadokura
  • Patent number: 10807070
    Abstract: Provided is a silica titania composite aerogel particle including a base particle in which an element ratio Si/Ti of silicon to titanium is greater than 0 and equal to or lower than 6. A BET specific surface area of the silica titania composite particle is within a range of 200 m2/g to 1200 m2/g, and the silica titania composite particle has absorption at wavelengths of 450 nm and 750 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Kashima, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Yasuo Kadokura, Takeshi Iwanaga, Shunsuke Nozaki, Sakae Takeuchi, Yuka Zenitani, Hiroyoshi Okuno
  • Patent number: 10807058
    Abstract: A silica-titania composite aerogel particle includes: a base particle including silicon and titanium whose element ratio Si/Ti is more than 0 and 6 or less; and a surface layer present on the base particle and including a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group. The silica-titania composite aerogel particle has absorption at wavelengths of 450 nm and 750 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, has a BET specific surface area in the range of 200 m2/g to 1,200 m2/g, and has a value A in the range of 0.03 to 0.3. The value A is calculated by formula: A=(peak intensity of C—O bond+peak intensity of C?O bond)/(peak intensity of C—C bond+peak intensity of C?C bond). The peak intensity is obtained from a C is XPS spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kadokura, Yuka Zenitani, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Yasunobu Kashima, Takeshi Iwanaga, Shunsuke Nozaki, Sakae Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20200292951
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 5?-chloro-3-hydroxy-2?-methoxy-2-naphthanilide in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 1,000 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Daisuke TOMITA, Atsushi SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 10761444
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image development toner satisfies the following: a maximum slope of an absolute value of log (loss modulus G?) from 60° C. to 90° C. is 0.07 or more and 0.16 or less; a maximum slope of an absolute value of log (loss modulus G?) from 90° C. to 130° C. is 0.08 or less; and G?(60) is 5.0×107 Pa or more and 1.0×1010 Pa or less, where G?(60) is a loss modulus at 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugawara, Yasuo Kadokura, Daisuke Tomita, Sakiko Hirai, Satoshi Miura
  • Patent number: 10754269
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 5?-chloro-3-hydroxy-2?-methoxy-2-naphthanilide in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 1,000 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kadokura, Daisuke Tomita, Atsushi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10732532
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner base particles including at least a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the binder resin includes a hybrid resin having a polyester resin segment and a styrene-acrylic copolymer segment, and a molecular weight distribution curve of the toner satisfies Formula (1): 1.3?b/a?2.5, where, in the molecular weight distribution curve in which a perpendicular line is drawn from a baseline to a peak top having a peak top height to divide the molecular weight distribution curve into a lower-molecular-weight region and a higher-molecular-weight region, a represents a width of the lower-molecular-weight region at a height of 15% of the peak top height, and b represents a width of the higher-molecular-weight region at a height of 15% of the peak top height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugawara, Yasuo Kadokura, Daisuke Tomita
  • Patent number: 10719022
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of 2.0 to 2.8, an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 2.8 and 3.5 or less, and an electrostatic charge image developing toner has a surface property index value represented by Formula S of more than 1.0 and less than 2.0 and a calculated value of a specific surface area in Formula S of 0.70 to 1.3: (Surface property index value)=(Measured value of specific surface area)/(Calculated value of specific surface area)??Formula S wherein (Calculated value of specific surface area)=(Sum of surface areas calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)/{(Specific gravity of toner)×(Sum of volumes calculated from equivalent circle diameters of 4,500 toner particles in flow particle image analysis)}.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kadokura, Atsushi Sugawara, Daisuke Tomita, Sakiko Hirai, Satoshi Miura, Akira Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10656546
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 1-amino-2-methoxybenzene in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 200 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tomita, Yasuo Kadokura, Atsushi Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20200089138
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image development toner satisfies the following: (ln ?(T1)?ln ?(T2))/(T1?T2) is ?0.14 or less, (ln ?(T2)?ln ?(T3))/(T2?T3) is ?0.15 or more, and (ln ?(T2)?ln ?(T3))/(T2?T3) is more than (ln ?(T1)?ln ?(T2))/(T1?T2), where ?(T1) represents a viscosity ? of the toner at T1=60° C., ?(T2) represents a viscosity ? of the toner at T2=90° C., and ?(T3) represents a viscosity ? of the toner at T3=130° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Daisuke TOMITA, Sakiko HIRAI, Satoshi MIURA
  • Publication number: 20200089137
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image development toner satisfies the following: a maximum slope of an absolute value of log (loss modulus G?) from 60° C. to 90° C. is 0.07 or more and 0.16 or less; a maximum slope of an absolute value of log (loss modulus G?) from 90° C. to 130° C. is 0.08 or less; and G?(60) is 5.0×107 Pa or more and 1.0×1010 Pa or less, where G?(60) is a loss modulus at 60° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yasuo KADOKURA, Daisuke TOMITA, Sakiko HIRAI, Satoshi MIURA