Patents by Inventor Yosuke Tsurumi

Yosuke Tsurumi 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: 11556071
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle, and an amount of the coating resin layer that is peeled off from the magnetic particle when the carrier dispersed in water is irradiated with ultrasonic waves, relative to a coating amount of the coating resin layer before ultrasonic irradiation, is 800 mass ppm or more and 2,000 mass ppm or less, and a difference between an initial coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having no travel history and a coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having a travel history and being taken out from an electrostatic charge image developer, relative to the initial coating amount of the coating resin layer, is 0 mass ppm or more and 3,000 mass ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro Watanabe, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuo Kadokura, Karin Sakai
  • Patent number: 11550235
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is deposited on the surfaces of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is deposited on the external additive A. The external additive B includes an aggregate of two or more particles. The coverage of the toner particles with the external additive B is 3% by area or more with respect to the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugawara, Yosuke Tsurumi, Yasuko Torii, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Moegi Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11531284
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a release agent, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The external additive B is an aggregate of two or more particles. The toner particles have an average circularity of 0.8 or more and 0.94 or less. The amount of the release agent present at the surface of the toner particles is 5 area % or more and 30 area % or less based on the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Moegi Iguchi, Yosuke Tsurumi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Yasuko Torii
  • Publication number: 20220390875
    Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic image includes a magnetic particle and a resin layer with which the magnetic particle is coated and which contains silica particles having an average particle diameter of 50 nm or more and 200 nm or less. In the carrier, a silicon element ratio Si1 in a region in which a distance from a surface of the resin layer in a direction toward an inside is 0.1 ?m or more and 0.2 ?m or less and a silicon element ratio Si2 in a region in which a distance from a surface of the magnetic particle in a direction toward the surface of the resin layer is 0.0 ?m or more and 0.1 ?m or less satisfy formula 1-1 and formula 2-1 below. 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shintaro ANNO, Yosuke Tsurumi, Takeshi Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20220373922
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer contains: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle; and the toner particle has a surface property index value of 1.0 or more and less than 2.0; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio B/A of a surface area B to a plane view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the plane view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220373923
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer containing: a toner containing a toner particle and an external additive; and a carrier containing a magnetic particle and a resin layer covering the magnetic particle, in which the toner particle has a surface property index value of 2.0 or more and 2.8 or less; and the carrier has a surface having a ratio BIA of a surface area B to a planar view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the planar view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuo KADOKURA, Takuro WATANABE, Karin SAKAI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI
  • Publication number: 20220373920
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes core particles provided by dispersing a magnetic powder in a resin and resin cover layers covering the core particles, wherein the resin cover layers have a surface coverage of 96 area % or more, the resin cover layers include 10 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less of inorganic particles relative to a total mass of the resin cover layers, and the inorganic particles in surfaces of the carrier have a surface exposure ratio of 6 atomic % or more and 15 atomic % or less determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuro WATANABE, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220373924
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles and an external additive, wherein an amount of the external additive that is loose relative to a total mass of the external additive is 5 mass % or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sakiko TAKEUCHI, Yasuo KADOKURA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Kazutsuna SASAKI, Takuro WATANABE, Karin SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20220308490
    Abstract: A method for producing a recycled carrier includes: performing classification, the classification including separating a carrier having a coating layer from a collected developer by a centrifugal air classifier, the collected developer containing the carrier and being obtained by collecting an electrostatic charge image developer remaining after image formation; and performing recoating, the recoating including dissolving or thermally melting a coating resin of the separated and classified carrier and then coating the resulting carrier again to produce a recycled carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi TANABE, Yosuke TSURUMI, Shintaro ANNO
  • 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: 20220308493
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic particle and a coating resin layer that covers the magnetic particle, and an amount of the coating resin layer that is peeled off from the magnetic particle when the carrier dispersed in water is irradiated with ultrasonic waves, relative to a coating amount of the coating resin layer before ultrasonic irradiation, is 800 mass ppm or more and 2,000 mass ppm or less, and a difference between an initial coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having no travel history and a coating amount of the coating resin layer of a carrier having a travel history and being taken out from an electrostatic charge image developer, relative to the initial coating amount of the coating resin layer, is 0 mass ppm or more and 3,000 mass ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 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: 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: 20220299906
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier, containing: a magnetic particle; and a resin coating layer that coats the magnetic particle and contains inorganic particles, and the electrostatic charge image developing carrier has a surface of a surface roughness satisfying a ratio B/A of a surface area B to a plan view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less, the plan view area A and the surface area B being obtained by three-dimensional analysis of the surface, and the magnetic particle has a surface roughness satisfying 0.5 ?m?Sm?2.5 ?m and 0.3 ?m?Ra?1.2 ?m, and Sm represents an average ruggedness interval and Ra represents an arithmetic average surface roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yosuke TSURUMI, Sakiko TAKEUCHI, Karin SAKAI
  • 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: 11392052
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The number of peaks of the external additive B on the external additive A is 5 or more and 100 or less per 30 ?m peripheral length of the toner particle, the peaks having a height from the surface of the toner particle of 80 nm or more and 250 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuko Torii, Yosuke Tsurumi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Moegi Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20210302855
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The number of peaks of the external additive B on the external additive A is 5 or more and 100 or less per 30 ?m peripheral length of the toner particle, the peaks having a height from the surface of the toner particle of 80 nm or more and 250 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuko TORII, Yosuke TSURUMI, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yoshimasa FUJIHARA, Moegi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210294227
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is deposited on the surfaces of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is deposited on the external additive A. The external additive B includes an aggregate of two or more particles. The coverage of the toner particles with the external additive B is 3% by area or more with respect to the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuko TORII, Yoshimasa FUJIHARA, Moegi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210294237
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a release agent, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The external additive B is an aggregate of two or more particles. The toner particles have an average circularity of 0.8 or more and 0.94 or less. The amount of the release agent present at the surface of the toner particles is 5 area % or more and 30 area % or less based on the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moegi IGUCHI, Yosuke Tsurumi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Yasuko Torii
  • Patent number: 10852651
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developer includes a toner and a resin-coated carrier. The toner includes toner particles including a binder resin, a release agent, and a non-ionic surfactant. The resin-coated carrier includes magnetic particles and a resin layer covering the magnetic particles. The resin layer includes inorganic particles having a volume resistivity of 1×100 ?·cm or more and 1×104 ?·cm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Hashimoto, Yosuke Tsurumi, Hiroaki Saijo