Patents by Inventor Yukio Hosoya

Yukio Hosoya 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: 8304157
    Abstract: A toner for an electrophotography and its manufacturing method are disclosed. The toner comprises toner particles containing a cross-linked polymer having two-valent crosslinking group represented by Formula (1), wherein, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a chlorine atom, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom or a methoxy group. The toner satisfies storage durability against heat as well as sufficient low temperature fixing ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Kouyama, Ken Ohmura, Kenji Hayashi, Yukio Hosoya, Hiroaki Obata, Koji Shibata
  • Patent number: 8248685
    Abstract: Display particles having metal oxide layers formed on the surfaces of base particles containing at least a resin and a colorant, wherein the metal oxide layers comprise a polycondensation product formed by using a compound A represented by the following formula (A) and a compound B indicated by the following formula (B) as materials, and an image display apparatus loaded with the display particles: M1(OR1)4??(A) (wherein M1 represents a silicon atom or a titanium atom; and R1 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms respectively independently): M2(R2)4-n(OR3)n??(B) (wherein M2 represents a silicon atom or a titanium atom; R2 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or an epoxy group, independently; R3 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms independently; and n represents an integer of 2 or 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Shibata, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Mikio Kouyama
  • Patent number: 8215677
    Abstract: An arrangement structure is provided for a canister of a saddle type vehicle wherein a canister can be arranged closely to a fuel tank to simplify a pipe arrangement structure. A fuel tank disposed forward of an engine is structured such that a tank upper half and a tank lower half of a concave shape formed by pressing are joined together at joining flanges. The joining flanges are disposed on a vehicle body such that a front portion thereof is positioned on the upper side. A rear inclined wall, which is inclined toward a rear upper direction such that it forms a substantially right angle to the joining flange, is provided at a rear portion of the tank lower half. A canister is disposed in a dead space below the rear inclined wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Yuichiro Morikawa
  • Patent number: 8194032
    Abstract: An image display medium is disclosed, which medium includes a pair of substrates each having an electrode and colored particles between the pair of substrates, and the colored particles have an absolute electric charge of 0.5 to 4.0 ?C/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeki Takenouchi, Eiichi Sakai, Tatsuya Nagase, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya
  • Patent number: 8163453
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner which can be charged at a designated level even when a lot of print is carried out with severity of charging by stirring and when the printing is carried out under the low temperature-low humidity or the high temperature-high humidity condition. A toner comprising (a) a particle comprising a resin and a colorant; and (b) a titanate compound on the surface of the particle, in which the titanate compound contains iron in an amount of from 100 ppm to 1,000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Anno, Yukio Hosoya
  • Publication number: 20110223534
    Abstract: A hydrophobilization method is disclosed, comprising subjecting particles to a hydrophobilizing treatment in an aqueous medium with a hydrophobilizing agent to hydrophobilize surfaces of the particles, wherein the surfaces of the particles are hydrophobilized with the hydrophobilizing agent in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Koji SHIBATA, Mikio KOUYAMA, Kenji HAYASHI, Yukio HOSOYA, Hiroaki OBATA
  • Publication number: 20110177452
    Abstract: A production method of a toner for developing an electrostatic image composed of toner parent particles and external additives adhered to a surface the toner parent particles is disclosed. The method includes steps of preparing toner parent particles dispersion liquid in which toner parent particles are dispersed in a medium, first mixing the dispersion liquid with a quaternary ammonium salt compound and a water soluble organic solvent to prepare liquid mixture, and second mixing the liquid mixture with external additive dispersion liquid in which negative charged external additives are dispersed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yukio HOSOYA, Mikio KOUYAMA, Kenji HAYASHI, Hiroaki OBATA, Koji SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 7969643
    Abstract: Display particles for an image display apparatus, wherein the image display apparatus comprises two substrates at least one of which is transparent, with the display particles being sealed between the substrates in a powder state, so that by generating an electric field between the substrates, the display particles are moved to display an image, wherein the display particles are formed through processes in which at least a binder resin and a colorant are kneaded and pulverized to give core particles, resin fine particles are fixed and fused on surfaces of the core particles, and then the core particles on which the resin fine particles are fixed and fused are sphered to give an average degree of roundness of 0.960 or more, and wherein a ratio of use of the resin fine particles is set in the range from 100 to 300% in the rate of the total projection area of the resin fine particles relative to the total surface area of the core particles, as well as an image display apparatus loaded with the display particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Kouji Shibata, Mikio Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20110143275
    Abstract: A method of producing a water dispersion of polyester resin particles containing the steps of: emulsifying and dispersing at least a diol, a dicarboxylic acid and at least one polycondensation catalyst selected from a surfactant catalyst and a rare earth metal catalyst in water to form an emulsified dispersion liquid; and irradiating the emulsified dispersion liquid with a microwave to conduct a polycondensation reaction, whereby polyester resin particles are produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki OBATA, Mikio KOUYAMA, Kenji HAYASHI, Yukio HOSOYA, Koji SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 7952794
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including: two substrates at least one of which is transparent; and display particles that are sealed between the substrates in a powder state so that by generating an electric field between the substrates, the display particles are moved to display an image; wherein, of contact surfaces with the display particles in a gap between the substrates, both of the surfaces on the substrate sides have oxide layers of the same metal, and the display particles include positively chargeable display particles and negatively chargeable display particles, and both of the positively chargeable display particles and the negatively chargeable display particles have structures obtained by successively forming oxide layers of the same metal as that of the metal oxide layers possessed by the surfaces on the substrate sides and organic layers on the surfaces of base particles that contain at least a resin and a colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Okushi Okuyama, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Kouji Shibata, Mikio Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20110104604
    Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a toner including a vinyl series resin being a polymer of a radical polymerizable monomer, and a coloring agent, the method comprising: dispersing a crystalline organic compound having an unsaturated bond in an aqueous medium to prepare a dispersion liquid of the crystalline organic compound; causing a radical polymerization reaction between an unsaturated bond part of the crystalline organic compound and the radical polymerizable monomer after adding the radical polymerizable monomer to the dispersion liquid of the crystalline organic compound, to prepare a dispersion liquid of resin particles including the obtained polymer; and mixing at least the dispersion liquid of the resin particles and a dispersion liquid of coloring agent particles, and aggregating the resin particles and the coloring agent particles to form toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji HAYASHI, Hiroaki OBATA, Yukio HOSOYA, Kouji SHIBATA, Mikio KOUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110070535
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development is disclosed comprising colored particles containing a binder resin and a colorant and external-additive particles attached to the surfaces of the colored particles, wherein the external-additive particles comprise resin particles covered with an inorganic layer, and the resin particles are bound to the inorganic layer by a siloxane bond. A preparation method of the toner is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yukio HOSOYA, Mikio KOUYAMA, Kenji HAYASHI, Hiroaki OBATA, Koji SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 7903323
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprising two substrates at least one of which is transparent, ribs for maintaining a distance between the substrates and display particles that are sealed between the substrates in a powder state, and displaying an image by generating an electric field between the substrates so that the display particles are moved, wherein of contact faces to the display particles in the gap between the substrates, at least the contact faces of ribs to the display particles have an arithmetic average roughness Ra in a range from 0.01 to 0.20 ?m and an average interval Sm of irregularities in a range from 0.5 to 2.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya, Hiroyuki Konno, Kouji Shibata, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Publication number: 20100321763
    Abstract: Display particles for an image display apparatus, wherein the image display apparatus comprises two substrates at least one of which is transparent, with the display particles being sealed between the substrates in a powder state, so that by generating an electric field between the substrates, the display particles are moved to display an image, wherein the display particles are formed through processes in which at least a binder resin and a colorant are kneaded and pulverized to give core particles, resin fine particles are fixed and fused on surfaces of the core particles, and then the core particles on which the resin fine particles are fixed and fused are sphered to give an average degree of roundness of 0.960 or more, and wherein a ratio of use of the resin fine particles is set in the range from 100 to 300% in the rate of the total projection area of the resin fine particles relative to the total surface area of the core particles, as well as an image display apparatus loaded with the display particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Okushi OKUYAMA, Yukio HOSOYA, Satoshi UCHINO, Hiroyuki KONNO, Kouji SHIBATA, Mikio KOUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100321762
    Abstract: Display particles having metal oxide layers formed on the surfaces of base particles containing at least a resin and a colorant, wherein the metal oxide layers comprise a polycondensation product formed by using a compound A represented by the following formula (A) and a compound B indicated by the following formula (B) as materials, and an image display apparatus loaded with the display particles: M1(OR1)4 ??(A) (wherein M1 represents a silicon atom or a titanium atom; and R1 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms respectively independently): M2(R2)4-n(OR3)n ??(B) (wherein M2 represents a silicon atom or a titanium atom; R2 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or an epoxy group, independently; R3 represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms independently; and n represents an integer of 2 or 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Shibata, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Mikio Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20100323290
    Abstract: A toner for an electrophotography and its manufacturing method are disclosed. The toner comprises toner particles containing a cross-linked polymer having two-valent crosslinking group represented by Formula (1), wherein, R1 is a hydrogen atom or a chlorine atom, R2 is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom or a methoxy group. The toner satisfies storage durability against heat as well as sufficient low temperature fixing ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio KOUYAMA, Ken OHMURA, Kenji HAYASHI, Yukio HOSOYA, Hiroaki OBATA, Koji SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20100302623
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including: two substrates at least one of which is transparent; and display particles that are sealed between the substrates in a powder state so that by generating an electric field between the substrates, the display particles are moved to display an image; wherein, of contact surfaces with the display particles in a gap between the substrates, both of the surfaces on the substrate sides have oxide layers of the same metal, and the display particles include positively chargeable display particles and negatively chargeable display particles, and both of the positively chargeable display particles and the negatively chargeable display particles have structures obtained by successively forming oxide layers of the same metal as that of the metal oxide layers possessed by the surfaces on the substrate sides and organic layers on the surfaces of base particles that contain at least a resin and a colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Okushi Okuyama, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Kouji Shibata, Mikio Kouyama
  • Publication number: 20100302622
    Abstract: Display particles for use in image display devices with display particles sealed in a powdery form in the space between two substrates, at least one of which is transparent, that display an image while the display particles are moved as electric field is generated between the substrates, characterized in that the display particles contain at least base particles containing at least a resin and a colorant and inorganic fine particles added to the base particle; externally and a separation amount A of the inorganic fine particles having a primary particle size of 5 to 60 nm separated from the display particles when the particles are provided with an ultrasonic energy of 60 ?A for 1 minute in aqueous polyoxyethylphenylether solution is 0.1 to 2.5 wt % with respect to the base particles, and an image display device installed with the display particles for image display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Okushi Okuyama, Satoshi Uchino, Hiroyuki Konno, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Patent number: 7839562
    Abstract: Disclosed are white particles for an image display device which includes: (i) a pair of substrates facing each other, provided that at least one of the substrates is transparent; and (ii) the white particles enclosed in a gap between the substrates, with which an image is displayed through migration of the white particles by generating an electric field between the substrates, wherein each of the white particles contains: (a) a core particles containing an inorganic oxide having a refractive index of 2.0 or more in an amount of 80 to 99 weight % based on the total weight of the core particle; and (b) a resin layer having a thickness of 10 to 1000 nm on a surface of the core particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukio Hosoya, Eiichi Sakai, Shigeki Takenouchi, Tatsuya Nagase, Okushi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 7830593
    Abstract: An image display device 10, having two substrates 11 and 12, at least one of which is transparent; and display particles 21 and 22 enclosed in the powder form between the substrates, the display particles being moved under an electric field generated between the substrates so that an image is displayed, wherein metal oxide fine particles 1 surface-treated with at least one processing agent selected from the group consisting of silane-coupling agents and silicone oils are adhered to at least one substrate surface 20a and/or 20b of the surfaces in contact with the display particles in a gap 18 between the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Uchino, Okushi Okuyama, Yukio Hosoya, Hiroyuki Konno, Tatsuya Nagase, Shigeki Takenouchi