Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic image, includes: magnetic core material particles and a coated layer coated on the magnetic core material particles, the coated layer containing a resin having a monomer unit represented by formula (A): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 to R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; R5 independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group; n represents an integer of from 0 to 7; and L1 represents a single bond or an alkylene group, provided that at least one of R3 and R4 is not a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic charge image comprising a core material and a coating resin layer that covers the core material,wherein the core material is a ferrite particle having a Brunauer-Emmitt-Teller (BET) specific surface area of from about 0.12 m2/g to about 0.20 m2/g, and having a fluidity of from about 26 sec/50 g to about 30 sec/50 g.

Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic charge image, including a core, and a coating layer including a resin and inorganic oxide particles that exhibit electroconductivity, by which the core is coated, wherein the inorganic oxide particles have, when they are aggregated, an aggregation size of or when they are not aggregated, a primary particle size of, from 230 nm to 970 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising at least an image holding member, an charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary transfer unit, a secondary transfer unit, a fixing unit, and a cleaning unit, wherein a surface hardness of a side, of the intermediate transfer belt, contacting with the image holding member being 10 to 30, a carrier in the developer having at least two resin-coated layers on a surface of a core material containing ferrite, and the core material having a surface roughness Sm of 2.0 ?m or less, a surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m or more, and an average a circularity degree of 0.975 to 1.000.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a ferrite particle and a resin layer that coats the ferrite particle, wherein a magnesium element content of the ferrite particle is from about 3.0% by weight to about 20.0% by weight; wherein a manganese element content of the ferrite particle is from about 0.2% by weight to about 0.8% by weight; and wherein a content of toluene is more than about 100 ppm and not more than about 2,000 ppm.

Abstract: A container for storing a toner includes: an electrostatic latent image developing toner that contains: a binder resin containing a polyester resin; a coloring agent; and a release agent, and that has a volume average particle size of about 4 to about 8 ?m and an average degree of circularity of about 0.94 to about 0.99; and a toner container main body that stores the electrostatic latent image developing toner, the toner container main body including a material containing at least one of polyethylene terephthalate and polybutylene terephthalate.

Abstract: An electrophotographic carrier includes a magnetic core material and a resin layer that coats the magnetic core material, the resin layer comprising a resistance control agent and a polymer including a repeating unit derived from an alicyclic group-containing methacrylic ester, the resin layer including a monomer as a base material of the repeating unit in the polymer in an amount of from about 0.5% by weight to about 3.0% by weight relative to the total amount of the resin layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a carrier for electrostatic development, including ferrite particles and a coating layer including a resin having a cycloalkyl group, the ferrite particles including strontium in an amount of from about 0.1% by weight to about 1.0% by weight and having a BET specific surface area of from about 0.13 m2/g to about 0.23 m2/g.

Abstract: A container for storing a toner includes: an electrostatic latent image developing toner that contains: a binder resin containing a polyester resin; a coloring agent; and a release agent, and that has a volume average particle size of about 4 to about 8 ?m and an average degree of circularity of about 0.94 to about 0.99; and a toner container main body that stores the electrostatic latent image developing toner, the toner container main body including a material containing at least one of polyethylene terephthalate and polybutylene terephthalate.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a ferrite particle that contains from about 1.0% by weight to about 14.0% by weight of elemental magnesium, wherein an average distribution ratio D of the elemental magnesium in the ferrite particle is from about 1.1 to about 2.0, wherein the average distribution ratio D is defined as an average value of D? of at least 50 ferrite particles, wherein D? is defined as W1/W2, wherein W1 is a weight ratio of elemental magnesium content Mg to elemental iron content Fe, Me/Fe, in a whole cross-section of the ferrite particle, and W2 is a weight ratio of elemental magnesium content Mg to elemental iron content Fe, Me/Fe, in a square, the two opposite vertices of which are located at two points on a diameter of a circle circumscribing the cross-section, each being half a radius distant from the center of the circumscribing circle.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a ferrite particle that contains magnesium element in an amount of about 3.0 wt % or more and about 10.0 wt % or less and manganese element in an amount of about 0.2 wt % or more and less than about 1.0 wt %; and a resin layer that covers the ferrite particle.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developer contains a toner and a carrier having a resin coating layer formed on the surface of a core material containing a ferrite component, wherein a ratio R1/R2 is from 0.88 to 0.92 where R1 is the resistance value (?) of the developer having a toner concentration of 2 mass % in a state formed into a magnetic brush, at an applied voltage of 104 V/cm, and R2 is the resistance value (?) of the developer having a toner concentration of 12 mass % in a state formed into a magnetic brush, at an applied voltage of 104 V/cm.

Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising a binder resin and a colorant, the binder resin including a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous resin. When, in differential scanning calorimetry of the toner according to ASTM D3418-8, the temperature of the endothermic peak derived from the crystalline polyester resin in a first heating process is defined as Tm1 (° C.), the endothermic quantity based on the endothermic peak in the first heating process is defined as ?H1 (mW/g), and the endothermic quantity based on the endothermic peak in a second heating process is defined as ?H2 (mW/g), Tm1 is 50 to 80° C., and ?H1 and ?H2 satisfy the relationship represented by the following Formula (1). When the softening temperature of the toner is defined as Tf1/2 (° C.), Tf1/2 is 85 to 135° C. Tm1 and Tf1/2 satisfy the relationship represented by the following Formula (2): 0.35??H2/?H1?0.95??Formula (1) Tf1/2?205?(1.4×Tm1)??Formula (2).

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is provided, which contains at least a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent, the releasing agent, has an endothermic peak temperature measured by a differential scanning calorimeter of from 60 to 100° C., and an endothermic amount a of the releasing agent per unit weight (J/g) at temperatures equal to or lower than a glass transition onset temperature of the binder resin measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, a total endothermic amount b of the releasing agent per unit weight (J/g) and a volume average particle diameter c(?m) of the toner has the relationship: 0.05?(a/b)×c?0.6.

Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for electrophotography having a capsule structure including a core and a shell that covers the core, wherein the core contains a colorant, a releasing agent, an amorphous resin, and a block polymer containing a crystalline part and an amorphous part, the weight-average molecular weight of the block polymer is 10,000 or more, the weight-average molecular weight of the resin used in formation of the amorphous part of the block polymer is 1000 to 5000, and the weight-average molecular weight of the resin used in formation of the crystalline part of the block polymer is at least 2 times the weight-average molecular weight of the resin used in formation of the amorphous part of the block polymer, a method of manufacturing the same, a developer for electrophotography including the toner and a carrier, and an image forming method using the developer for electrophotography.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: a magnetic particle; and a resin coating layer that covers a surface of the magnetic particle with a resin, the resin coating layer containing an acid having a cyclic diterpene structure and either of carbon black or nigrosine dispersed therein.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes a toner containing an external additive and a carrier comprising a resin-coated layer formed on a surface of a core material. The average shape factor SF1 of the toner is from 125 to 135, the number of particles having shape factor SF1 of less than 125 is from 5% to 30% by number with respect to the total number of toner particles, the number of particles having shape factor SF1 of greater than 135 is from 5% to 30% by number with respect to the total number of toner particles, the scratch line width in a scratch strength test of the resin used in the resin-coated layer is from 80 ?m to 200 ?m, and the scratch depth is from 60 ?m to 150 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising at least an image holding member, an charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary transfer unit, a secondary transfer unit, a fixing unit, and a cleaning unit, wherein a surface hardness of a side, of the intermediate transfer belt, contacting with the image holding member being 10 to 30, a carrier in the developer having at least two resin-coated layers on a surface of a core material containing ferrite, and the core material having a surface roughness Sm of 2.0 ?m or less, a surface roughness Ra of 0.1 ?m or more, and an average a circularity degree of 0.975 to 1.000.

Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image includes carrier particles, and the carrier particles include magnetic particles and a coating layer coating the surfaces of the magnetic particles. The BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles is 0.1300 m2/g to 0.2500 m2/g, and the difference in BET specific surface areas obtained by subtracting the BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles from the BET specific surface area of the carrier particles is 0.0300 m2/g to 0.400 m2/g.

Abstract: Provided are a toner for developing an electrostatic image comprising a crystalline resin having an ester bond and at least one of a sulfide bond or a disulfide bond in the main-chain, an electrostatic image developer and an image-forming process by using the same, a method of producing the toner for developing electrostatic image, and a resin particle dispersion using the same.