Patents by Inventor Yuujirou Nagashima
Yuujirou Nagashima 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).
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Patent number: 10012919Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, an amorphous polyester, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin; the amorphous polyester has a monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons, and a monomer unit derived from a dialcohol; the content of the monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons is 10 to 50 mol % with reference to the total monomer units derived from a carboxylic acid in the amorphous polyester; and in a cross section of the toner particle, the vinyl resin constitutes a matrix and the amorphous polyester constitutes domains, and the crystalline polyester is present in the interior of the domains.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Matsui, Yuujirou Nagashima, Keisuke Tanaka, Shohei Tsuda, Naoki Okamoto
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Patent number: 9964874Abstract: Provided is a toner including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a release agent, wherein a cross-sectional image of the toner is observed using a scanning transmission electron microscope, domains of the crystalline polyester are present in the cross-sectional image of the toner, the domains have a number-average major diameter of at least 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, the number of the domains is at least 8 and not more than 500, and the domains are present at least 60 number % and not more than 100 number % from an outline of the cross-sectional image to 25% of the distance between the outline and the centroid of the cross-sectional image.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
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Publication number: 20180004109Abstract: A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin, an amorphous polyester, and a colorant, wherein a softening point of the toner is at least 110° C. and not more than 140° C.; an integrated value f1 for stress of the toner is not more than 10 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.01 seconds; and an integrated value f2 for stress of the toner is at least 30 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.1 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Naoki Okamoto, Yuujirou Nagashima, Keisuke Tanaka, Shohei Tsuda, Kosuke Fukudome, Takuya Mizuguchi
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Publication number: 20180004108Abstract: Provided is a toner comprising a toner particle including a binder resin, an amorphous polyester, and a colorant, wherein the binder resin includes a vinyl resin, the toner has a softening point of at least 110° C. and not more than 140° C., an amount of the amorphous polyester is at least 4.0 parts by mass and not more than 30.0 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and a temperature T at which an area increasing rate of one toner particle sample becomes 1.40, is not more than 110° C., and a slope of the area increasing rate with respect to a temperature in the range of the area increasing rate of 1.40 to 2.00 is not more than 0.07.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Shohei Tsuda, Naoki Okamoto, Takashi Matsui, Yuujirou Nagashima, Keisuke Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180004106Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, an amorphous polyester, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin; the amorphous polyester has a monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons, and a monomer unit derived from a dialcohol; the content of the monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons is 10 to 50 mol % with reference to the total monomer units derived from a carboxylic acid in the amorphous polyester; and in a cross section of the toner particle, the vinyl resin constitutes a matrix and the amorphous polyester constitutes domains, and the crystalline polyester is present in the interior of the domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Yuujirou Nagashima, Keisuke Tanaka, Shohei Tsuda, Naoki Okamoto
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Patent number: 9841692Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a wax, and a crystalline polyester, wherein two or more peak tops for crystallization peaks are present in a temperature range from 40° C. to 80° C. in a first DSC curve obtained by a process or cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 0.5° C./min, and using ?H(0.5) for the exothermic quantity for the peak on the lowest temperature side of these crystallization peaks and using ?H(100) for the exothermic quantity of the crystallization peak on the lowest temperature side in a second DSC curve obtained by a process of cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 100° C./min, the ratio [?H(100)/?H(0.5)] is at least 2.0 and not more than 6.0.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
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Patent number: 9804514Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a toner, the method including a treatment process of treating a coloring particle including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a wax in an aqueous medium, wherein, the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pp) in the crystalline polyester is denoted by Tp (° C.) and the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pw) in the wax is denoted by Tw (° C.), the Tp and Tw satisfy a specific relationship, and the treatment process has a specific cooling step.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
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Publication number: 20170160661Abstract: Provided is a toner including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a release agent, wherein a cross-sectional image of the toner is observed using a scanning transmission electron microscope, domains of the crystalline polyester are present in the cross-sectional image of the toner, the domains have a number-average major diameter of at least 50 nm and not more than 300 nm, the number of the domains is at least 8 and not more than 500, and the domains are present at at least 60 number % and not more than 100 number % from an outline of the cross-sectional image to 25% of the distance between the outline and the centroid of the cross-sectional image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
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Publication number: 20170160657Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a toner, the method including a treatment process of treating a coloring particle including a binder resin, a colorant, a crystalline polyester, and a wax in an aqueous medium, wherein, the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pp) in the crystalline polyester is denoted by Tp (° C.) and the peak temperature of a crystallization peak (Pw) in the wax is denoted by Tw (° C.), the Tp and Tw satisfy a specific relationship, and the treatment process has a specific cooling step.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani
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Publication number: 20170160660Abstract: Provided is a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a wax, and a crystalline polyester, wherein two or more peak tops for crystallization peaks are present in a temperature range from 40° C. to 80° C. in a first DSC curve obtained by a process or cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 0.5° C./min, and using ?H(0.5) for the exothermic quantity for the peak on the lowest temperature side of these crystallization peaks and using ?H(100) for the exothermic quantity of the crystallization peak on the lowest temperature side in a second DSC curve obtained by a process of cooling the toner from 100° C. to 20° C. at 100° C./min, the ratio [?H(100)/?H(0.5)] is at least 2.0 and not more than 6.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
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Publication number: 20170160662Abstract: Provided is a toner containing a toner particle including a binder resin, a wax, and a colorant. The softening point of the toner is at least 80° C. and not more than 140° C. The average circularity of the toner is at least 0.940. The integrated value of stress in the toner at 150° C. which is measured by using a tackiness tester is at least 78 g·m/sec.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yuujirou Nagashima, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani
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Publication number: 20170123333Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant and a crystalline resin, wherein the loss elastic modulus G? of the toner at 20° C. is 1.5×108 Pa to 1.0×109 Pa, a shoulder appears at a temperature Tp (° C.) in the range of 30° C. to 45° C. in a temperature-loss elastic modulus curve, and, in Curve 1 obtained by differentiating the temperature-loss elastic modulus curve once by the temperature, the minimum value of the Curve 1 in the range of 60° C. or more is ?0.30 to ?0.15.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Shiro Kuroki, Kazumi Yoshizaki, Kenichi Nakayama, Yuujirou Nagashima, Takeshi Kaburagi
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Publication number: 20160378003Abstract: Provided is a toner having improved durability. The magnetic toner includes magnetic toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, in which a deformation amount when a load of 9.8×10?4 N is applied to one particle of the magnetic toner in a microcompression test is 3.0 ?m or less, in which the magnetic toner has a surface free energy of 5 mJ/m2 or more and 20 mJ/m2 or less, and in which the magnetic toner has a melt viscosity ?? at 100° C. of 5.0×103 Pa·s or more and 1.0×105 Pa·s or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Satoshi Arimura, Yusuke Hasegawa, Tomohisa Sano, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Kozue Uratani, Yuujirou Nagashima
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Publication number: 20160266509Abstract: The toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the release agent contains an ester wax, and the peak top temperature of the maximum endothermic peak of the ester wax as measured with a differential scanning calorimeter is from 65° C. to 85° C., the ester wax satisfies specific conditions and the crystalline polyester satisfies specific conditions, the toner contains from 3.0 parts by mass to 20.0 parts by mass of the crystalline polyester per 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and the mass ratio of the ester wax to crystalline polyester is from 25/75 to 75/25.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Tomohisa Sano, Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Yuujirou Nagashima, Kozue Uratani