Dry Multicolor Toner (i.e., Composition Containing More Than One Colored Toner (e.g., Cyan, Magenta, And Yellow Toners, Etc.)) With Chemically Identified Colorant Or Colorant Identified By Color Patents (Class 430/107.1)
  • Patent number: 7344812
    Abstract: A developer for developing an electrostatic latent image, including a carrier which includes core particles, and a surface layer surrounding each of the core particles and containing an acrylic resin binder; and a toner which includes toner particles and an external additive of inorganic or organic fine particles present on each of the toner particles. Each of the toner particles comprises a colorant, a matrix of a first resin, and a plurality of domains of a second resin dispersed in the matrix and containing a wax. The first resin is substantially free of tetrahydrofuran insoluble matters and has a weight average molecular weight of 3,000 to 90,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohsuke Suzuki, Satoshi Mochizuki, Tomio Kondou, Masahide Yamashita, Tomomi Tamura, Takayuki Koike
  • Patent number: 7316882
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method for obtaining excellent color fixed images with a smaller amount of light energy. This image forming method includes the steps of: forming a toner layer of a color toner containing at least a binder resin, a coloring agent, and an infrared absorbent, on a recording medium; and fixing the toner layer by flashlight emission, where the relationship among the PAS level S of the color toner that is obtained by integrating an infrared PAS spectrum obtained through PAS (photoacoustic spectroscopy) analysis in the range of 800 nm to 2000 nm, the melt viscosity ? of the color toner at a reference temperature, and the energy E of the flashlight, is expressed by the following relational expression: 1000??/E·S?5500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimichi Katagiri, Yasushige Nakamura, Katsuji Ebisu, Yuzo Horikoshi, Takahiro Kashikawa
  • Patent number: 7311769
    Abstract: A pigment composition containing a disazo pigment of formula (I) and at least one pigment from the group of organic orange, red and violet pigments
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Weber, Gerhard Wilker, Frank Alfter, Hans-Tobias Macholdt
  • Patent number: 7303846
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner contains at least a binder resin and a colorant, and log10{[Cu]/[C]} satisfies the following equation (1): ?5.0?log10{[Cu]/[C]}??3.5 ??(1) in which, [C] represents a carbon content (%) and [Cu] represents a copper content (%), measured with fluorescent X-ray. An electrophotographic developer containing the toner, a method for producing the toner, and a method for forming an image by using the toner are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruo Sakai, legal representative, Yuka Ishihara, Atsuhiko Eguchi, Masahiro Okita, Jun Igarashi, Koichi Sugiyama, Susumu Yoshino, Sueko Sakai, deceased
  • Patent number: 7270923
    Abstract: An image forming method for forming a full color toner image by overlaying four color electrostatic image developing toners of black, yellow, magenta and cyan, wherein at least one of the four color electrostatic image developing toners is a toner containing a large diameter external additive in a larger amount and at least one is a toner containing the large diameter external additive in a smaller amount, in which the primary particle diameter of the large diameter external additive is from 150 nm to 2,000 nm, the content of the large diameter external additive in the toner containing the large diameter external additive in larger amount is from 0.06% by weight to 4.0% by weight and the content of the large diameter external additive in the toner containing the large diameter external additive in the smaller amount is not more than 0.05% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Meizo Shirose, Naohiro Hirose, Tatsuya Nagase, Asao Matsushima, Shiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20070207398
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner is disclosed. The toner is composed of toner particles comprising colored particles containing a dye which is dispersed in a binder resin, wherein the toner particles satisfies formula of 3?D2/D1>1, D1 being a volume average particle diameter of the colored particles, and D2 being an average diameter of dye cloud formed by the colored particles in the toner particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori ONO, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI, Takato CHIBA
  • Patent number: 7252914
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography fulfilling both the fixability and the void resistance at high level, and forms a high-quality image. The toner for electrophotography contains: a binder resin; and a wax component which contains: a first wax having an endothermic peak in a temperature region of 60 to 90° C., the endothermic peak occurring in the temperature-rising stage of a DSC curve determined by a differential scanning calorimeter, and having a molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight (Mw)/number-average molecular weight (Mn)) of 1.5 or less, and substantially not containing a component having 500 Mw or less; and at least any of a second wax having an endothermic peak in a temperature region of 100 to 150° C. and the molecular weight distribution of 5 to 20; and a third wax having an endothermic peak in a temperature region of 150 to 170° C. and the molecular weight distribution of 1.1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Tomoaki Tanaka, Seijiro Ishimaru, Sadaaki Yoshida, Yoshimichi Katagiri
  • Patent number: 7250239
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a yellow toner for flash fixation, comprising an infrared absorbent, one or more yellow colorants, and a binder resin, wherein a* of the infrared absorbent in an CIELAB color space is less than 0, and a* of one or more of the yellow colorants in the CIELAB color space is more than 0, or vice versa; and a developer and an image forming method using the yellow toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Satoshi Takezawa
  • Patent number: 7232632
    Abstract: A method for forming a full color image including: forming at least yellow, magenta and cyan color toner images on a receiving material to form a full color image thereon; and fixing the full color image upon application of heat thereto while not contacting the full color image, wherein each of the yellow, magenta and cyan color toner images includes a binder resin and a pigment, wherein the yellow color toner includes a benzimidazolone pigment, the magenta color toner includes at least one of Naphthol Carmine F6B and a combination of Naphthol Carmine F6B and Naphthol Carmine FBB, and the cyan color toner includes ? copper phthalocyanine, and wherein the yellow color toner image has a position closer to the receiving material than any other color toner image when two or more of the color toner images including the yellow color toner image are overlaid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventors: Tomio Kondou, Shinichi Kuramoto, Hideki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 7211360
    Abstract: A developing agent comprising color toners and a cyan toner, the color toners including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a black toner, wherein the black toner comprises a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, and the yellow toner, the magenta toner and the cyan toner each comprise a binder resin containing no crystalline polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuitsu Sato, Takashi Urabe, Yasuhito Noda
  • Patent number: 7183029
    Abstract: A toner for forming a full color image, which includes a colorant and a binder resin including a polyester resin which is prepared by a polycondensation ester reaction in the presence of a titanium-containing catalyst selected from the group consisting of halogenated titanium, titanium diketone enolates, titanium carboxylates, titanyl carboxylates, and salts of titanyl carboxylates. A toner kit including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, a cyan toner and a black toner, wherein each of the toners is the toner mentioned above. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a charger; a light irradiator; a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with a developer including the toner mentioned above; a transfer device; and a fixing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited.
    Inventors: Minoru Masuda, Mitsuo Aoki, Kumi Hasegawa, Bing Shu
  • Patent number: 7169522
    Abstract: The toner for developing a latent electrostatic image to form an image contains a binder resin and 2% by weight to 15% by weight of a coloring agent. The coverage of the toner with the coloring agent on a surface of the toner is 1.5% by atom to 15% by atom. The toner prevents scatterings and toner deposition on the background of images and provides high quality images even after printing several tens of sheets at high temperature and in high humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Sugiura, Satoshi Mochizuki, Yasuo Asahina, Kazuhiko Umemura, Minoru Masuda, Tomomi Tamura
  • Patent number: 7150951
    Abstract: A developing agent comprising color toners and a cyan toner, the color toners including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a black toner, wherein the black toner comprises a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, and the yellow toner, the magenta toner and the cyan toner each comprise a binder resin containing no crystalline polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuitsu Sato, Takashi Urabe, Yasuhito Noda
  • Patent number: 7142801
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a plurality of image forming units each having at least an electrophotographic photoreceptor, a latent image forming device to form an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device to develop the electrostatic latent image with toner to form visible toner image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a transferring device to transfer the visible toner image onto a toner image receiving member and a cleaning device to remove the toner remaining on the electrophotographic photoreceptor after transferring the visible toner image by the transferring device, wherein the plurality of image forming units are arranged so as to transfer and pile up the visible toner images successively onto said other material to form a toner image, and wherein the toners used in each of the image forming units have different colors and the turbidity of less than 60, and the difference of the turbidity of the toner having the highest turbidity and that
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoe Kitani, Masao Asano
  • Patent number: 7135260
    Abstract: The invention provides an imaging system wherein toners of two or more colors are used to form toner images and the toner images are successively used to form a color image on a recording material. The imaging system can form an image with high transfer efficiency. An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image carrier. Using developing units for two or more colors, images are formed. Then, the images are successively transferred onto an intermediate transfer medium at a transfer voltage fed from a constant-voltage power supply. The developing units are located such that development occurs in descending toner work function order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Miyakawa, Shinji Yasukawa, Mikio Furumizu, Nobumasa Abe, Masanao Kunugi, Yoshiro Koga
  • Patent number: 7132207
    Abstract: In a toner kit having i) a non-magnetic black toner having at least carbon black and ii) color toners, the black toner has a weight-average particle diameter represented by D4b and a one-point method BET specific surface area represented by Sb, and the color toners, other than the-black toner, each have a weight-average particle diameter represented by D4c and a one-point method BET specific surface area represented by Sc, where the black toner and color toners satisfy the following relations (1) and (2): 0.60?D4.c/D4b?0.96,:??Relation (1) 0.750?Sc/Sb?1.000;:??Relation (2) and each have an average circularity of from 0.950 to 1.000 and a circularity standard deviation of less than 0.040 as measured with a flow type particle image analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Nonaka, Yushi Mikuriya, Shinya Yachi, Shuntaro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7083887
    Abstract: This invention provides: a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a yellow color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Yellow 180 or C.I. Pigment Yellow 185; a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a magenta color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Violet 19; and a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a cyan color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Blue 15. Also disclosed are a color toner set comprising these color toners and an image forming apparatus employing at least one of the color toners or the color toner set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Yoshimichi Katagiri
  • Patent number: 7052814
    Abstract: A toner for use in an oil-less fixing system free from an oil coating on a fixing roller, the toner includes a binder resin and a wax as well as carbon black having an oil absorption of 50 to 100 mL/100 g where the toner is the black toner or a coloring agent where the toner is the color toner, and wherein the binder resin has a rate of decrease of storage elastic modulus G? of not more than 0.3 Pa/° C. as determined in association with temperature increase in the range of 160 to 200° C. The binder resin preferably has a weight average molecular weight [Mw] of 10,000 to 200,000, an [Mw/Mn] ratio between [Mw] and a number average molecular weight [Mn] thereof in the range of 1 to 15, or a peak rate of decrease of the storage elastic modulus G? in the temperature range of 70 to 100° C. The toner suited for use in the oil-less fixing system and particularly suitable for forming a color image is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Keiichi Tanida
  • Patent number: 7045265
    Abstract: Electrophotographic color toner prepared as a mixture of white toner and chromatic color toner in an electrophotographic toner composition at least containing a colorant, a binder resin and an additive, wherein a colorant of the white toner is one member selected from the group consisting of silver white pigment, titanium white pigment, zinc white pigment, and titanium strontium white pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuzo Horikoshi, Katsuji Ebisu, Takahiro Kashikawa
  • Patent number: 7041420
    Abstract: A toner of the invention includes toner particles comprising a styrene acrylate binder and at least one colorant, and wherein the toner particles, in the absence of external additives, have a mean circularity of from about 0.94 to about 0.98 and a particle size distribution with a lower number ratio geometric standard deviation (GSD) of approximately 1.28 to approximately 1.31 and an upper volume GSD of approximately 1.24 to approximately 1.27. Also included is a set of toners for forming a color image, comprising a cyan toner, a magenta toner, a yellow toner and a black toner, wherein each of the cyan toner, the magenta toner, the yellow toner and the black toner, wherein each of about 70 to about 95% by weight, dry basis, of a styrene acrylate binder, about 5 to about 15% by weight, dry basis, of a wax dispersion, and at least one colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Judith M. Vandewinckel, Vincenzo G. Marcello, Grazyna E. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz, Tie Hwee Ng, Chieh-Min Cheng
  • Patent number: 7018759
    Abstract: The invention provides a developing agent that includes color toners and a black toner. The color toners include a yellow toner, a magenta toner and a cyan toner. Each of the yellow toner, the magenta toner and the cyan toner contains, as a binder resin, a mixture of an H form of polyester mainly containing higher molecular components polyester, and an L form of polyester mainly containing lower molecular components of polyester. The black toner contains, as a binder resin, a mixture of an H form of polyester mainly containing higher molecular components of polyester, and an L form of polyester mainly containing lower molecular components polyester, and a crystalline polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuitsu Sato, Takashi Urabe, Yasuhito Noda
  • Patent number: 7018754
    Abstract: An image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of forming a latent image on a latent image carrying member, developing the latent image by a developer containing a toner, transferring the toner image onto an intermediate transfer member, transferring the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer member onto a image forming support, and fixing the toner image formed on the image forming support, wherein the toner contains a resin and a colorant, and the toner is constituted by toner particles having a variation coefficient of the shape coefficient of not more than 16% and a number variation coefficient of the particle size distribution of not more than 27%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Meizo Shirose, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Yamada, Asao Matsushima, Tatsuya Nagase
  • Patent number: 6996358
    Abstract: A color image forming apparatus forms an image using a deep toner and a pale toner at least for one color such that the pale toner is used to form an image in a high lightness area, and the pale toner and the deep toner are used in combination to form the image in a half tone area. A toner kit has a deep toner and a pale toner which are separated from each other. A method for forming an image uses the color image forming apparatus, the toner kit, and the deep toner and the pale toner. A high quality image can be formed while inhibiting graininess and roughness over a broad image area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ayaki, Takeshi Ikeda, Yukio Nagase, Nobuyuki Itoh, Isami Itoh, Tomohito Ishida
  • Patent number: 6902856
    Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. In the method each of a plurality of toner images formed on the latent image bearing body is sequentially onto an intermediate transfer body, and the transferred image on the intermediate transfer body is transferred to an image forming support, and fixed using a heating roller fixing system, and the toner satisfies ratio (Dv50/Dp50) is from 1.00 to 1.15; ratio (Dv75/Dp75) is from 1.00 to 1.20; and the content ratio of toner having a particle diameter of at most 0.7×(Dp50) is less than or equal to 10 percent by number. Dv50, Dp50, Dv75 and Dp75 are specified in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Asao Matsushima, Hiroyuki Kozuru, Meizo Shirose, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6872499
    Abstract: A developing agent comprising color toners and a cyan toner, the color toners including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a black toner, wherein the black toner comprises a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, and the yellow toner, the magenta toner and the cyan toner each comprise a binder resin containing no crystalline polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuitsu Sato, Takashi Urabe, Yasuhito Noda
  • Patent number: 6864029
    Abstract: The present invention uses a crystalline resin as a binding resin and provides a toner insuring excellent storability of a resulting image, a method of manufacturing the toner, an electrostatically charged image developer containing the toner, and an image forming method. In the electrophotographic toner containing toner mother particles comprising at least a binding resin and a colorant, a main component of said binding resin comprises a crystalline resin with a melting point in the range from 50 to 120° C. and an average volume particle size in the range from 3.0 to 7.5 ?m, while an average value of the BET specific areas of said toner mother particles is in the range from 0.6 to 3.0 m2/g. The electrophotographic toner manufacturing method comprises the steps of coalescing or associating the binding resin particles with colorant particles, and cooling the aggregated particles at the rate of at least 1° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hamano, Manabu Serizawa, Katsumi Daimon, Yuka Ishihara, Norihito Fukushima, Takashi Imai
  • Patent number: 6844125
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of developing agents by which letting Ry micrometer be the volume-average particle diameter of a yellow developing agent, and R micrometer be the volume-average particle diameter of a non-yellow color developing agent, R<Ry and 4<R<11, and letting Ty (° C.) be the softening point of the yellow developing agent, and T (° C.) be the average value of the softening points of non-yellow color developing agents, Ty>T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20040265714
    Abstract: The invention provides an imaging system wherein toners of two or more colors are used to form toner images and the toner images are successively used to form a color image on a recording material. The imaging system can form an image with high transfer efficiency. An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image carrier. Using developing units for two or more colors, images are formed. Then, the images are successively transferred onto an intermediate transfer medium at a transfer voltage fed from a constant-voltage power supply. The developing units are located such that development occurs in descending toner work function order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Miyakawa, Shinji Yasukawa, Mikio Furumizu, Nobumasa Abe, Masanao Kunugi, Yoshiro Koga
  • Publication number: 20040248025
    Abstract: The present invention provides toners of different colors in which coloring agents of at least four unicolors are internally added to, respectively, and hydrophobic silica particles and metallic soap particles are externally added to toner mother particles, wherein color superposition of the toners is conducted during development of latent images on a latent image carrier or during transfer to a recording medium after the development, being characterized in that the difference (absolute value) between the work functions of two of said toners is 0.02 eV or more, the color superposition is conducted with the toners sequentially from the toner having the largest work function in descending order of work function of the toners, and the difference (absolute value) between the work function of the toner mother particles and the work function of the metallic soap particles is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 6828072
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing a toner mixture comprising mixing a first toner with at least one further toner wherein the first toner has an acid value of from 0.1 to 30 mgKOH/g and comprises at least one binder resin and at least one coloring agent wherein said binder comprises as the main component a polyester resin and wherein the further toners comprise at least a binder resin and optionally at least one coloring agent. It also describes a developer composition comprising said toner mixture and optionally a carrier. The new toner mixture does not show any de-mixing phenomenon during repeated use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: OCE Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Masahito Yamazaki, Jiro Takemoto, Hiromi Ueno, Koji Akiyama, Jean-Philip Hulin, Josef Knott, Manfred Münz, Andreas Paul
  • Patent number: 6818369
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development in which the weight concentration of polar-solvent-soluble material is 1000 &mgr;g/g or less, based on the toner, and an image forming method comprising a step of forming a toner image by developing a latent electrostatic image by using the toner for electrostatic image development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Sugiura, Satoshi Mochizuki, Yasuo Asahina, Kazuhiko Umemura, Minoru Masuda, Kohsuke Suzuki, Tomomi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20040185356
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination of developing agents by which letting Ry micrometer be the volume-average particle diameter of a yellow developing agent, and R micrometer be the volume-average particle diameter of a non-yellow color developing agent, R<Ry and 4<R<11, and letting Ty (° C.) be the softening point of the yellow developing agent, and T (° C.) be the average value of the softening points of non-yellow color developing agents, Ty>T.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20040185355
    Abstract: A developing agent comprising color toners and a cyan toner, the color toners including a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a black toner, wherein the black toner comprises a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, and the yellow toner, the magenta toner and the cyan toner each comprise a binder resin containing no crystalline polyester resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuitsu Sato, Takashi Urabe, Yasuhito Noda
  • Patent number: 6783906
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a tandem system configuration, includes: a multiple number of photoreceptors which each form an electrostatic latent image; and a multiple number of developing devices each holding a different color toner from the others for development of the corresponding static latent image, and is constructed so that the plural toners at least include a black toner, and the abrading force of the black toner or its carrier therein acting on the photoreceptor surface is adjusted so as to be smaller than that of the other developing toners or their carrier therein. Since, in a tandem type color image forming apparatus, the developing devices, photoreceptors and toners for all colors will reach the end of their life at the same time, the image forming apparatus can be operated at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Masanori Matsumoto, Tadayuki Sawai, Kouji Kida, Yuko Takeda
  • Publication number: 20040142262
    Abstract: This invention provides: a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a yellow color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Yellow 180 or C.I. Pigment Yellow 185; a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a magenta color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Violet 19; and a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a cyan color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Blue 15. Also disclosed are a color toner set comprising these color toners and an image forming apparatus employing at least one of the color toners or the color toner set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Yoshimichi Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20040137349
    Abstract: Electrophotographic color toner prepared as a mixture of white toner and chromatic color toner in an electrophotographic toner composition at least containing a colorant, a binder resin and an additive, wherein a colorant of the white toner is one member selected from the group consisting of silver white pigment, titanium white pigment, zinc white pigment, and titanium strontium white pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzo Horikoshi, Katsuji Ebisu, Takahiro Kashikawa
  • Patent number: 6753122
    Abstract: A toner for forming a color image comprises chromatic toners and a black toner is disclosed. Each of the toners is produced by polymerization of a polymerizable monomer in an aqueous medium, the difference of re-dispersion electro-conductivity of each of the toners is within the range of from 0.8 to 12 &mgr;s/cm, the number of free colorant particles on the black toner surface is less than 9 per 500 toner particles, and a light absorbance at 500 nm of a black toner dispersion is nor more than 0.08.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Ohmura, Ryuji Kitani, Yasuko Yamauchi, Kaori Soeda
  • Publication number: 20040115542
    Abstract: In a toner kit having i) a non-magnetic black toner having at least carbon black and ii) color toners, the black toner has a weight-average particle diameter represented by D4b and a one-point method BET specific surface area represented by Sb, and the color toners, other than the black toner, each have a weight-average particle diameter represented by D4c and a one-point method BET specific surface area represented by Sc, where the black toner and color toners satisfy the following relations (1) and (2):
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Nonaka, Yushi Mikuriya, Shinya Yachi, Shuntaro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6737210
    Abstract: An image formation method for forming an image is proposed, which uses an image formation apparatus capable of performing (1) multi-color image formation and printing by superimposing toner images with different colors by use of a plurality of color toners with different colors, including at least a black toner, and (2) monochrome image formation and printing, using only a black toner, with a maximum transferable amount of each color toner onto the image being in a range of 4×10−3 kg/m2 to 8×10−3 kg/m2, wherein an image glossiness (GKC) obtained by the black toner in the maximum transferable amount thereof at the multi-color image printing, an image glossiness (GCC) obtained by each of the color toners other than the black toner in the maximum transferable amount thereof at the multi-color image printing, and an image glossiness (GKM) obtained by the black toner in the maximum transferable amount thereof at the monochrome image printing satisfy a particular relationship as described in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Uchinokura, Hachiroh Tosaka, Hiroshi Yamashita, Shinichi Kuramoto, Masae Nakamura, Takashi Yamamoto, Masakazu Kinoshita, Yoshimi Mizoguchi, Yoshimichi Katagiri
  • Patent number: 6737209
    Abstract: A color image forming method in which a color toner image is formed through superposing toner images of three color toners of yellow, magenta, and cyan and a black toner, wherein each of the color toners is a flattened toner composed of particles each having an equivalent circle diameter d of 5 to 10 (&mgr;m) when viewed from a direction to make a projection area maximum, a thickness t of 1 to 4 (&mgr;m), and a flattening ratio d/t of 2 to 8 represented by a ratio of the equivalent circle diameter d to the thickness t, and the flattening ratio d/t of the particles of the color toners is larger than the flattening ratio dk/tK of the particles of the black toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Kunio Shigeta, Yotaro Sato, Satoshi Haneda
  • Patent number: 6709798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a full color image forming method for forming a full color image on a recording medium by using specific magenta toner, specific cyan toner, specific yellow toner and black toner, wherein a maximum adhering amount of the magenta toner, the cyan toner and the yellow toner on the recording medium is respectively 5.0 g/m2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Tamaoki, Masayuki Hagi, Masahiro Anno
  • Publication number: 20040013958
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a color image forming apparatus that forms an image using a deep toner and a pale toner at least for one color such that the pale toner is used to form an image in a high lightness area and the pale toner and the deep toner are used in combination to form the image in a half tone area; a toner kit having a deep toner and a pale toner which are separated from each other; a deep toner and a deep toner and a pale toner to be used in the toner kit and the color image forming apparatus; and a method for forming an image using the color image forming apparatus, the toner kit, and the deep toner and the pale toner. According to the present invention, a high quality image can be formed while inhibiting graininess and roughness over a broad image area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ayaki, Takeshi Ikeda, Yukio Nagase, Nobuyuki Itoh, Isami Itoh, Tomohito Ishida
  • Publication number: 20040013961
    Abstract: A toner comprising a binder resin, a colorant and a charge control resin for positive and/or negative charge, wherein a number of colorant particles having a length of at least 0.2 mm counted in an area of 100 mm×100 mm of a toner having a thickness of 20 mm, which is prepared by melting the toner, being at most 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Kazu Niwa, Fuminari Oyama
  • Publication number: 20040002012
    Abstract: An oil-free process for forming a fused toner image on a receiver comprises: forming on a receiver an image comprising toner particles that contain a non-crosslinked linear polymeric binder, a colorant, and a release agent; and contacting the receiver bearing the toner particle image with a fuser member comprising a support and a release layer overlying the support. The release layer comprises a cured fluorocarbon thermoplastic random copolymer, a particulate filler comprising zinc oxide and tin oxide and a cured aminosiloxane copolymer, the cured fluorocarbon thermoplastics random copolymer containing —(CH2CF2)x—, —(CF2CF(CF3)y—, and —(CF2CF2)z— subunits, wherein x is from 1 to 40 or 60 to 80 mole percent, y is from 10 to 90 mole percent, z is from 10 to 90 mole percent, and x+y+z equals 100 mole percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: NexPress Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Joseph A. Pavlisko, Jiann-Hsing Chen, Dinesh Tyagi, Muhammed Aslam
  • Publication number: 20030235772
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a black toner that can satisfy further the requirement for low energy, high-speed and high performance, a color toner that can be used in an image forming apparatus provided with an oil-less fixation device, and a color toner including the black toner and the color toner. For the black toner, a polyester resin having an acid value of 7 to 20 mgKOH/g is used as the binding resin, and a carboxylic acid-modified paraffin wax having an acid value of 4 to 30 mgKOH/g is used as the wax. For the color toner, polyester resin having an acid value of 7 to 20 mgKOH/g is used as the binding resin, and a carboxylic acid-modified paraffin wax having an acid value of 6 to 25 mgKOH/g is used as the wax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Satoshi Ogawa, Masahiko Kubo, Tadayuki Sawai, Kouji Kida
  • Publication number: 20030232266
    Abstract: A toner for developing a latent electrostatic image which includes a binder resin and a coloring agent. In the toner, a coverage with the coloring agent on a surface of the toner is 1.5% by atom to 15% by atom, and the toner contains 2% by weight to 15% by weight of the coloring agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Hideki Sugiura, Satoshi Mochizuki, Yasuo Asahina, Kazuhiko Umemura, Minoru Masuda, Tomomi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20030207186
    Abstract: A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and ranges from 75% to 80% at a wavelength of 600 nm, a cyan toner in which, in the like spectral-distribution diagram, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 30% to 35% at a wavelength of 450 nm and ranges from 35% to 40% at a wavelength of 475 nm, and a magenta toner in which, in the like spectral-distribution diagram, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 5% to 10% at a wavelength of 425 nm and ranges from 65% to 70% at a wavelength of 675 nm. These color toners each contain corresponding pigments in specific combination, and promise color reproduction which can ensure the color tones of process inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Takayuki Itakura, Takaaki Kotaki, Takaaki Kaya, Kazuhiko Hayami, Nozomu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 6641965
    Abstract: A color toner for electrophotography, preferably used as a flash fixing toner which can be processed at a high speed, and exhibit excellent fixing property, high image resolution (image reproducibility) when fixed, and color reproducibility by color overlapping, and having a preferable color tone, with which a multi-color image can be formed. The color toner for electrophotography is used for the extreme bottom layer of a multi-color image comprised of laminating at least two types of toners that are selected from black toner, magenta toner, yellow toner, and cyan toner, and contains a coloring agent and an infrared ray absorbent, the color toner for electrophotography has a contrast ratio in the range of 35% to 95%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Tomoaki Tanaka, Yoshimichi Katagiri, Masae Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20030190538
    Abstract: A color toner selected from the group consisting of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, and mixtures thereof, which includes a binder resin and a color pigment, wherein a C* value of a fixed red image formed by a combination of a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 is not less than 80, and wherein a hexagon formed by six points in a *-b* chromaticity coordinates of a fixed yellow image formed by a layer of the yellow toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, the fixed red image, a fixed magenta image formed by a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed blue image formed by a combination of a layer of the magenta toner having a weight of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, a fixed cyan image formed by a layer of the cyan toner having a weight of 8 g/m2, and a fixed green image formed by a combination of a layer of the cyan toner of 8 g/m2 and a layer of the yellow toner having a wei
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanjirou Kawasaki, Shohichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20030186148
    Abstract: A color toner for electrophotography having excellent fixability and void resistance is capable of forming a high-quality image. The color toner for electrophotography comprises a binder resin and is a magenta toner, and used in combination with at least any of yellow toner and cyan toner. The storage modulus (G′100) (100° C.) of the binder resin is (1/1.1) to (1/10) times the storage modulus (G′100) (100° C.) of a binder resin contained in the yellow toner and the cyan toner. In addition, the color toner for electrophotography comprises a binder resin, C.I. pigment Violet 19, and an infrared absorbent. The color toner is a magenta toner used in combination with at least any of an yellow toner and a cyan toner. The content of the infrared absorbent in the magenta toner is higher than the content of an infrared absorbent in the yellow toner and the cyan toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasushige Nakamura, Tomoaki Tanaka