Organic Heavy Metal, Aluminum, Or Silicon Compound Adjuvant Patents (Class 430/108.3)
  • Patent number: 11841681
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the external additive comprises a composite particle comprising an organosilicon polymer fine particle covering a surface of an alumina particle, a coverage ratio of the surface of the alumina particle with the organosilicon polymer fine particle is 1 to 50 area %, and given A (nm) as a number-average particle diameter of primary particles of the organosilicon polymer fine particle and B (nm) as a number-average particle diameter of primary particles of the alumina particle, following formulae (I) and (II) are satisfied: A?90??(I) 100?B?1000??(II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Katsura, Hidekazu Fumita, Kentaro Yamawaki, Sara Yoshida, Yusuke Kosaki, Takayoshi Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11599036
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax, wherein the toner particle contains an organosilicon polymer as given by formula (1) below; R1—SiO3/2??(1), in formula (1), R1 is an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbons; in a cross section of the toner particle observed using a transmission electron microscope, in terms of a distance A from the centroid of the cross section of the toner particle to a contour of the cross section, the organosilicon polymer is present in a region that is not more than 80% of the distance A from the centroid; and an absolute value of a difference between an SP value of the organosilicon polymer and an SP value of the wax is not more than 0.70 (cal/cm3)1/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koki Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Junya Asaoka, Yuu Sasano, Yuhei Terui, Kenta Katayama
  • Patent number: 11352498
    Abstract: Provided are amorphous and at least partially crystalline polyetherimide compositions having a comparatively narrow particle size distribution and are particularly suited for additive manufacturing processes. The compositions comprise a population of polyetherimide particulates are characterized as having a zero-shear viscosity sufficiently low so as to achieve a coalescence of at least 0.5, and preferably of about 1.0, as characterized by the Frenkel model at a temperature less than 450° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SHPP GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Brian Gray Price, Elena Miloskovska, Bruke Jofore, Raul Fernandez Cabello, Hao Gu, Vandita Pai-Paranjape, Viswanathan Kalyanaraman
  • Patent number: 11294296
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle including a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein the external additive includes an external additive A which is silica fine particles and an external additive B which is a fatty acid metal salt, the external additive A has a specific particle diameter, a coverage ratio of a surface of the toner particle with the external additive A is from 60% to 80%, and where an average theoretical surface area obtained from a number average particle diameter, a particle size distribution and a true density of the toner particle is denoted by C (m2/g), an amount of the external additive B is denoted by D (parts by mass) and a coverage ratio of the surface of the toner particle with the external additive B is denoted by E (%), following formulas are satisfied: 0.05?D/C?2.00 E/(D/C)?50.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Fumita, Noriyoshi Umeda, Tomonori Matsunaga, Satoshi Otsuji
  • Patent number: 11181845
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a resin represented by formula (1), and wax, wherein the wax contains an ester compound that exhibits a compatibility at 100° C. of at least 5.0 mass parts per 100.0 mass parts of the binder resin: wherein in formula (1), P1 represents a macromolecular segment; L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl group, alkoxy group, hydroxy group, or aryl group; m represents a positive integer; and when m is equal to or greater than 2, a plurality of L1's, a plurality of R1's, a plurality of R2's, and a plurality of R3's may be the same as or different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taku Shimoda, Masashi Kawamura, Takayuki Toyoda, Kenji Ookubo
  • Patent number: 11181841
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner particles; Si-doped strontium titanate particles; and silica particles. The particle diameter D of at least one peak in a number-based particle size distribution of primary particles of the silica particles is larger than the number-based median diameter D50 of primary particles of the Si-doped strontium titanate particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Moegi Iguchi, Yasuko Torii, Sakon Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11177445
    Abstract: A compound is represented by Formula 1 below: wherein each of Ar1, Ar2, and L is independently selected from a list of substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, l is 0 or 1, m is an integer from 1 to 5, n is 2 or 3. When m is two or more, two or more L(s) are identical to or different from each other. M indicates a post-transition metal or a transition metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soobyung Ko, Haejin Kim, Mieun Jun, Youngkook Kim, Seokhwan Hwang
  • Patent number: 11112712
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle that contains a release agent-containing toner base particle, and an organosilicon polymer on a toner base particle surface, and an external additive A, the organosilicon polymer has a T3 unit structure; the organosilicon polymer forms protruded portions on the toner base particle surface; the number-average value of the protrusion height H is from 30 nm to 300 nm; the ratio of the number-average primary particle diameter R of the external additive A to the number-average value of the protrusion height H is from 1.00 to 4.00; the number-average primary particle diameter R of the external additive A is from 30 nm to 1,200 nm; and, in an image obtained by observing the toner surface with SEM, the area percentage for the bright region area in the image with reference to the total area of the image is from 30.0% to 75.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Matsunaga, Hidekazu Fumita, Noriyoshi Umeda, Shohei Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11092906
    Abstract: A toner including a parent toner particle comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a surface additive formulation comprising at least one medium silica surface additive; at least one large silica surface additive; at least one positive charging surface additive, wherein the at least one positive charging surface additive is (a) a titanium dioxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further contain a small silica; or (b) a non-titanium dioxide positive charging metal oxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further optionally contain a small silica; and wherein a total surface area coverage of all of the surface additives combined is 100 to 140 percent of the parent toner particle surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Michael F. Zona, Jordan A. Frank, Daniel W. Asarese, Paul K. Acquaviva, Chieh-Min Cheng
  • Patent number: 11086244
    Abstract: A toner including a parent toner particle comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a surface additive formulation comprising at least one medium silica surface additive; at least one large cross-linked organic polymeric additive; at least one positive charging surface additive, wherein the at least one positive charging surface additive is (a) a titanium dioxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further contain a small silica; or (b) a non-titanium dioxide positive charging metal oxide surface additive; and wherein the parent toner particles further optionally contain a small silica; and wherein a total surface area coverage of all of the surface additives combined is 100 to 140 percent of the parent toner particle surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Michael F. Zona, Jordan A. Frank, Daniel W. Asarese, Chieh-Min Cheng, Paul K. Acquaviva
  • Patent number: 11029617
    Abstract: A white toner comprising a toner particle including a binder resin, an inorganic white pigment, and a polyvalent metal salt compound, wherein the inorganic white pigment has an acidic group at a surface thereof; an amount of the inorganic white pigment in the toner particle is 10% to 50% by volume; the polyvalent metal salt compound is a specific compound; an absolute value of the difference between an SP value (J/cm3)1/2 of the binder resin and that of the polyvalent metal salt compound is 0.0 to 6.0; and an amount of the polyvalent metal salt compound, an amount of a polyvalent metal, the amount of the inorganic white pigment, and an amount of the acidic group at a surface of the inorganic white pigment satisfy a specific relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Chimoto, Kouichirou Ochi, Hayato Ida
  • Patent number: 11015058
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions containing dye, containing (A) at least one dye, (B) at least one organopolysiloxane containing units of the general formula Ra(R1O)bSiO[4?(a+b)]/2 (I), wherein the radicals and indexes have the meaning indicated in claim 1, provided that the total is a+b?3 and in more than 80% of all units, the formula (I) is equal to 2, and (C) at least one siloxane-organo-copolymer. The invention further relates to a method for the production thereof and to the use thereof in the dyeing of polymer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Oliver Schäfer, Peter Randel
  • Patent number: 11003105
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains composite particles of an organosilicon polymer fine particle and a fatty acid metal salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masamichi Sato, Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Masatake Tanaka, Taiji Katsura
  • Patent number: 10996577
    Abstract: Toner comprising a toner particle containing binder resin and colorant, wherein fine particles A (organosilicon polymer particles containing an organosilicon polymer) and fine particles B are present at the toner particle surface, the organosilicon polymer has structure in which Si and O are alternately bonded to each other, portion of Si in the organosilicon polymer has R1—SiO3/2 structure, and content of the fine particles A, proportion for area of peak originating with silicon having the structure, volume resistivity of the fine particles B, total coverage ratio of the toner particle surface by the fine particles A embedded in the toner particle (A1) and the fine particles A not embedded in the toner particle (A2), percentage for area occupied by the fine particles A2, content of the fine particles B in the toner, and percentage for area occupied by the fine particles B embedded in the toner particle are prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Nishikawa, Yojiro Hotta, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takaaki Furui, Shotaro Nomura, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10983451
    Abstract: A toner comprising an organosilicon polymer particle and a toner particle containing a binder resin and a wax, wherein the organosilicon polymer particle contains an organosilicon polymer, a part of silicon atoms in the organosilicon polymer has a T3 unit structure, a ratio of an area of peaks derived from silicon having the T3 unit structure relative to a total area of peaks derived from all silicon element contained in the organosilicon polymer particle is from 0.70 to 1.00 in 29Si-NMR measurement of the organosilicon polymer particle, a plurality of domains of the wax are present in a cross-section of the toner particle, the wax is an ester wax, the average long diameter of the domains of the ester wax is from 0.03 ?m to 2.00 ?m, and the SP value SPw of the wax is from 8.59 to 9.01.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui, Shotaro Nomura, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10983450
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein the external additive comprises an external additive A and B; the external additive A has a number-average primary particle diameter of 35 to 300 nm, a dielectric constant ?ra of not more than 3.50, and a shape factor SF-1 of not more than 114, and is an organosilicon polymer particle having a particular T3 unit structure; a proportion for an area of a peak originating from silicon having the T3 unit structure with reference to that of all silicon elements is 0.50 to 1.00; the external additive B has a number-average primary particle diameter of from 5 nm to 25 nm and a dielectric constant ?rb that satisfies formula (A): 0.50??rb??ra (A); and a coverage ratio by the external additive B for the toner particle surface is 50% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shotaro Nomura, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Takaaki Furui, Yuujirou Nagashima
  • Patent number: 10976678
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an external additive A and an external additive B, the external additive A is an organosilicon polymer fine particle, the number-average particle diameter of primary particles of the organosilicon polymer fine particle is from 30 to 300 nm, the external additive B is a silica fine particle, the number-average particle diameter of primary particles of the silica fine particle is from 100 to 300 nm, the fixing rate of the external additive A to the toner particle according to a water washing method is less than 30%, and the fixing rate of the external additive B to the toner particle according to the washing method is at least 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamawaki, Shohei Kototani, Noriyoshi Umeda, Tomonori Matsunaga, Shohei Tsuda, Satoshi Otsuji
  • Patent number: 10976679
    Abstract: A toner containing: a toner particle that contains a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains an organosilicon polymer fine particle, the binder resin contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline polyester resin, a content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is from 5 to 30 mass %, and the crystalline polyester resin contains from 5 to 25 mass % of a component having a molecular weight of not more than 2,500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatake Tanaka, Taiji Katsura, Masamichi Sato, Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 10955764
    Abstract: A toner which is less likely to cause toner leakage and which is less likely to cause aggregation after being left to stand under a high temperature condition. A toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising colored resin particles comprising a binder resin and a colorant, and an external additive, wherein a conditioned bulk density obtained by a powder flowability analyzing device is from 0.525 g/mL to 0.565 g/mL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kojiro Akazaki, Junichi Takashima
  • Patent number: 10942466
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the toner particle contains a polyvalent metal compound, the polyvalent metal compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum compounds, iron compounds and magnesium compounds, a content of a metal element derived from the polyvalent metal compound in the toner particle is from 0.080 to 20.000 ?mol/g, the external additive contains an organosilicon polymer particle having a hydroxyl group, a ratio of a number-average particle diameter of the organosilicon polymer particle to a number-average particle diameter of the toner particle is from 0.0160 to 0.0650, and a content of the organosilicon polymer particle is at least 0.10 mass parts per 100.00 mass parts of the toner particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Masatake Tanaka, Taiji Katsura, Masamichi Sato, Shohei Kototani, Kentaro Yamawaki
  • Patent number: 10935900
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ishizuka, Narumasa Sato, Yuka Kawamoto, Erina Saito, Norimasa Ozora, Kotaro Yoshihara, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 10935901
    Abstract: Described herein is a metallic toner. The metallic toner includes flake shape toner particles having a binder resin, zinc stearate, silica having a particle size of from 7 nm to less than 12 nm in an amount of about 0.1 weight percent to 1.0 about weight percent of the flake shape toner particle and tabular shape metallic pigments. The flake shape toner particles have an average major axis length of from 6 ?m to 20 ?m, an average thickness of from 1 ?m to 4 ?m and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.97. The tabular shape metallic pigments have an average major axis length of from 1 ?m to 14 ?m an average thickness of from 0.01 ?m to 0.5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Qi, Shigeng Li, Richard P. N. Veregin
  • Patent number: 10845721
    Abstract: A toner has a toner particle that has a binder resin and a release agent, wherein when the temperature when G?=1.0×105 Pa in a dynamic viscoelastic measurement on the toner is denoted by Ta, and the glass transition temperature in a differential scanning calorimetric measurement on the toner is denoted by Tg, the Ta and the Tg satisfy the following formulas: 40° C.?Tg?70° C., 60° C.?Ta?90° C., and 0° C.?Ta?Tg?35° C.; and the toner has a storage elastic modulus G? having a minimum value in the range from 110° C. to 150° C. in a dynamic viscoelastic measurement on the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatake Tanaka, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Noriyoshi Umeda, Satoshi Otsuji, Shinsuke Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10747133
    Abstract: A image-forming apparatus includes a plurality of process cartridges each having a toner and an image bearing member, and has an intermediate transfer member, wherein the toner comprises a toner particle that contains a toner base particle and a prescribed organosilicon polymer on the surface of the toner base particle, and the organosilicon polymer forms protruded portions on the surface of the toner base particle, for the protrusions having a protrusion height H from 40 nm to 300 nm, the numerical proportion P(D/w) of protruded portions having a ratio of the protrusion diameter D to the protrusion width w in a prescribed range is at least 70 number %, and one of the plurality of process cartridges has a carbon black-containing black toner, and the weight-average particle diameter of this black toner is smaller than that of the toner present in the other process cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutaka Yagi, Yuhei Terui, Noriyoshi Umeda, Tomonori Matsunaga, Shohei Kototani, Masamichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10723628
    Abstract: Dispersion comprising particles of a surface-modified, hydrophilic silica, where A) the particles of the surface-modified, hydrophilic silica comprise an aluminium atom and a hydrocarbon radical, a) the aluminium atom is bonded via an oxygen atom to a silicon atom of the particle surface, b) the hydrocarbon radical comprises a silicon atom which is bonded to a carbon atom of the hydrocarbon radical, c) possess an average particle diameter d50 in the dispersion of 40-200 nm, preferably 60-150 nm, and B) the pH of the dispersion is 8 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lortz, Ulrich Fischer, Christian Panz, Gabriele Bergmann
  • Patent number: 10670982
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles containing a polyester resin having an acid value of from 10 mg KOH/g to less than 15 mg KOH/g. The toner particles have a surface with an acid value in a range from 0.3% to 1.7% of the acid value of the polyester resin. The toner particles have a melt viscosity of from 1,800 Pa·s to 3,800 Pa·s at 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamashita, Kazuya Mori, Yuta Saeki, Takahisa Tatekawa, Akitsugu Seto, Yuji Isshiki, Takashi Hara
  • Patent number: 10606183
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
  • Patent number: 10599061
    Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles, inorganic particles externally added to the toner particles, and a low-molecular-weight siloxane having a molecular weight of 200 or more and 600 or less. The low-molecular-weight siloxane includes only a siloxane bond and an alkyl group. The total content of the low-molecular-weight siloxane in the electrostatic-image developing toner is, by mass, 0.01 ppm or more and 5 ppm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soutaro Kakehi, Yasuko Torii, Moegi Iguchi, Sakon Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10591836
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core. The shell layers contain a branched macromolecule. The branched macromolecule includes a repeating unit having an oxazoline group. The branched macromolecule satisfies a relationship represented by rB/rL?0.80, where rB represents a radius of gyration of the branched macromolecule when an absolute molecular weight of the branched macromolecule is 40,000, and rL represents a radius of gyration of a linear macromolecule including a main chain having the same structure as a main chain of the branched macromolecule when an absolute molecular weight of the linear macromolecule is 40,000. rB and rL are each a radius of gyration measured by gel permeation chromatography using a multi-angle laser light scattering detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuma Uchihashi
  • Patent number: 10514652
    Abstract: A developer set includes a first developer and a second developer. The first developer includes a first toner and a first carrier. The second developer includes a second toner and a second carrier. The second toner is a toner that includes a flaky brilliant pigment, a toner that includes a white pigment, or a transparent toner. The second carrier has a higher volume resistivity than the first carrier and has a larger volume average particle diameter than the first carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Anno, Hiroaki Saijo, Takuro Watanabe, Yasuaki Hashimoto, Fusako Kiyono
  • Patent number: 10466606
    Abstract: A developer including a colored resin particle and an external additive added to a surface of the colored resin particle and having a diameter smaller than or equal to 200 nm is provided. The external additive includes a nitrogen-containing resin particle. In elemental analysis of the nitrogen-containing resin particle, a peak appearing in a range of 0.38-0.42 keV is expressed as an N-peak, and a peak appearing in a range of 0.48-0.52 keV is expressed as an O-peak. Maximum count numbers in the N-peak and the O-peak of the external additive on a surface of the colored resin particle are respectively expressed as N1 and O1. Maximum count numbers in the N-peak and the O-peak of the surface of the colored resin particle where no external additive is observed are respectively expressed as N2 and O2. The count numbers N1, O1, N2 and O2 satisfy 1.7×(N2/O2)<(N1/O1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Kojima
  • Patent number: 10429757
    Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner particle has a surface layer that contains an organosilicon polymer and the luminance histogram of a backscattered electron image of the toner particle has two peak values P1 and P2 and a minimum value V between P1 and P2, P2 originates from the organosilicon polymer, and the luminance giving P1 and P2 are in specific ranges, percentages for P1 and P2 are each at least 0.50%, and using the luminance Bl at V as a reference point, specific relationships are satisfied by A1, AV, and A2, where A1 is the total number of pixels at luminance from 0 to (Bl?30 ), AV is the total number of pixels at luminance from (Bl?29 ) to (Bl+29 ), and A2 is the total number of pixels at luminance from (Bl+30 ) to 255.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sara Yoshida, Shinsuke Mochizuki, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Kenta Kamikura, Tsutomu Shimano, Kentaro Yamawaki, Akane Masumoto, Tomonori Matsunaga, Kunihiko Nakamura, Toshihiko Katakura, Shiro Kuroki
  • Patent number: 10423085
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles and a plurality of lubricant particles. The lubricant particles each include a core and a coat layer covering a surface of the core. The core contains stearic acid, palmitic acid, or a combination thereof. The coat layer has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater than 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiki Takemori
  • Patent number: 10409184
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a white pigment being acicular titanium oxide having an average aspect ratio within a range of 3 to 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Nakajima, Miyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 10274853
    Abstract: A toner includes a binder resin; a release agent; and two or more inorganic fine particles as external additives. At least one of the inorganic fine particles is silica. When an ultrasonic oscillation is applied to a dispersion including the toner and a dispersant and a rate of the silica releasing from the toner is 20% based on total silica, an application energy of the ultrasonic oscillation is from 8 to 14 kJ, and from 70 to 130 kJ when the rate of the silica releasing from the toner is 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Itoh, Naohiro Watanabe, Takahiro Honda, Shingo Sakashita, Daisuke Inoue, Rintaro Takahashi, Ayumi Satoh
  • Patent number: 10274856
    Abstract: A toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, and a release agent, wherein a maximum value of loss tangent of the toner at 95° C. to 115° C. is 8 or greater, as a viscoelasticity of the toner is measured, where the loss tangent is represented by the following formula: Loss tangent (tan ?)=loss elastic modulus (G?)/storage elastic modulus (G?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Nakajima, Kazumi Suzuki, Masashi Nagayama, Saori Yamada, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Yu Naito, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 10228628
    Abstract: A toner in which the content of polysiloxane is 1% by mass or more and 15% by mass or less based on the total mass of toner particles, the polysiloxane is present in the toner as a domain of 10 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and Siloxane index (Ge)/Siloxane index (D) of the toner particles is 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamashita, Takaho Shibata, Hayato Ida, Junichi Tamura, Akemi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10191399
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes first toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant and second toner particles containing a binder resin and containing or not containing a colorant, wherein a content PCa of the colorant contained in the first toner particles is from 4% by weight to 20% by weight with respect to the first toner particles, a content PCb of the colorant contained in the second toner particles is from 0% by weight to 2% by weight with respect to the second toner particles, and a weight ratio of the first toner particles and the second toner particles (weight of the first toner particles/weight of the second toner particles) is from 50/50 to 98/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Mizutani, Kotaro Yoshihara, Erina Saito, Narumasa Sato
  • Patent number: 10175592
    Abstract: A toner has positive chargeability. Particles of the toner each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles adhering to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include first external additive particles and second external additive particles. The first external additive particles have positive chargeability and are each a first silica particle having a surface treated with a positive chargeability imparting agent and a hydrophobing agent. The second external additive particles have negative chargeability and are each a second silica particle having a surface treated only with a silane compound. The silane compound is at least one alkylalkoxysilane represented by formula (I) shown below. In formula (I), R1 represents an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 16. R2, R3, and R4 each represent, independently of one another, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10120296
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles which comprises a binder resin and a releasing agent. A main component of the binder resin is a polyester resin. The binder resin comprises a crystalline polyester resin, an amorphous polyester resin and a hybrid vinyl resin. The hybrid vinyl resin is composed of a vinyl polymer segment and at least one segment selected from a polyester polymer segment, an urethane polymer segment and an urea polymer segment which is chemically bound to the vinyl polymer segment. A main component of the hybrid vinyl resin is the vinyl polymer segment which comprises a structural unit derived from a monomer having a specific structure. A tetrahydrofuran-soluble fraction of the toner has a main peak of a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography within the range of 11000 to 30000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kaori Matsushima, Noboru Ueda, Shiro Hirano, Kouji Sugama
  • Patent number: 10112379
    Abstract: A three-dimensional part and associated support structure is constructed using an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system. A support layer is developed using a first electrophotography engine, and a part layer is developed using a second electrophotography engine. The developed support and part layers are transferred to a transfer medium and moved into alignment with a tile region of a layer transfusion assembly, where the transferred part and support layers are transfused to previously-printed layers. This process is repeated for a plurality tile regions and for a plurality of layers to construct a three-dimensional part having a footprint larger than a maximum printable area of the first and second electrophotography engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Cumar Sreekumar
  • Patent number: 10114303
    Abstract: A toner including a toner particle that contains a binder resin, a polyester resin A and a wax, wherein the polyester resin A contains a specific amount of an isosorbide unit based on a total number of monomer units constituting the polyester resin A, the content of the polyester resin A is a specific amount, and when observing a cross-section of the toner, twenty toner particle cross-sections are selected that have a major axis R (?m) that satisfies a specific relationship with respect to the weight-average diameter D4 (?m) of the toner, each major axis r that have the largest major axis is measured for those domains composed of wax present in the selected toner particle cross-sections, and the arithmetic mean (r/R)st of the determined r/R satisfies a specific relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Katsura, Yasushi Katsuta, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Takashi Kenmoku, Shohei Shibahara, Tsutomu Shimano
  • Patent number: 10067438
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing white toner, including: a white toner including at least a binder resin, a white pigment, and a release agent; and a magnetic carrier including at least a core material, and a coating layer coating the core material and made of a coating resin and conductive particles, wherein Ra of the magnetic carrier is in a range of from 0.50 ?m to 1.00 ?m, and a bulk density of the magnetic carrier is in a range of from 2.08 g/cm3 to 2.24 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Murasawa, Hiroshi Tohmatsu, Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Mariko Takii, Koichi Sakata, Hiroyuki Kishida, Toyoaki Tano, Kenichi Mashiko
  • Patent number: 10042275
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a white pigment, wherein, in a particle size distribution of a maximum Feret diameter of particles of the white pigment present in the toner particle, a ratio of particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 200 nm or more and less than 400 nm is 50% by number or more with respect to the entire particles of the white pigment, and a maximum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 650 nm or more and less than 1,000 nm is larger than a minimum value of a frequency with respect to particles of the white pigment having a maximum Feret diameter of 500 nm or more and less than 650 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Iwase, Atsushi Sugawara, Tsuyoshi Murakami, Kana Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9971271
    Abstract: A charging roll includes a shaft, an elastic body layer formed around the shaft, and a surface layer formed around the elastic body layer. The surface layer contains a binder and roughness formation particles, and has projecting sections that project outward in the radial direction farther in the portions in which the roughness formation particles are present than in the portions in which the roughness formation particles are not present. The roughness formation particles are composed of porous silica particles, and the porous silica particles have an average particle size of 5 to 50 ?m, an oil absorbency of 200 to 500 ml/100 g, and a pore size of 5 to 20 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhide Watanabe, Hiroshi Ukai
  • Patent number: 9964883
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of manufacturing a white dry ink pulverized toner including a resin and 15%-45% TiO2 pigment having a mean size of 100-350 nm melt mixed with the resin in a twin screw extruder resulting in an extruded mix. The extruded mix is pulverized in a fluid bed jet mill. Fines of the pulverized extruded mix less than 5 microns may be removed from the pulverized extruded mix by classification leaving pulverized particles having a mean size of 6-12 microns. The pulverized particles are blended in a mixer with surface additives including silica and ZnSt, and the white dry ink pulverized toner has a developer charge between 5 and 50 ?C/gram and a Lightness (L*) of at least 75 at a toner mass per unit area (TMA) of at most 1.2 mg/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Varun Sambhy, Kirk L. Stamp, Juan A. Morales-Tirado
  • Patent number: 9933717
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic charge image development, including: a toner base particle having at least a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a colorant, wherein the following formula (1) is satisfied wherein a maximum value and a minimum value of a dielectric loss tangent tan ?, which are obtained by measuring at a frequency in the range of 1 kHz to 100 kHz under the condition at a temperature of 20° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH, are defined as tan ?max and tan ?min, respectively. According to the present invention, a toner for electrostatic charge image development, with which the rising of the toner charge amount is improved while ensuring the low temperature fixability, and a high quality image having less density unevenness can be obtained even during the image forming at a high speed and a high printing rate, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujisaki, Noboru Ueda
  • Patent number: 9904198
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin and a release agent; and an external additive containing fatty acid metal salt particles, wherein a non-attachment rate representing a percentage of the fatty acid metal salt particles not attached to the toner particles before ultrasonic desorption treatment is 45% or less and a weak attachment rate representing a percentage determined by subtracting the non-attachment rate from a percent of the fatty acid metal salt particles not attached to the toner particles after ultrasonic desorption treatment is 55% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Omori, Mona Tasaki, Yutaka Saito, Yuka Yamagishi, Fusako Kiyono
  • Patent number: 9857707
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including: a toner particle containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an inorganic fine particle, in which the toner particle has an average circularity of 0.960 or more, and in which the toner satisfies the formula (1) and the formula (2). Fp(A)?25.0 nN??Formula (1) (Fp(B)?Fp(A))/Fp(A)?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei Tsuda, Takashi Matsui, Satoshi Arimura, Kozue Uratani, Keisuke Tanaka, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9851650
    Abstract: A toner contains a styrene acrylic resin, a block polymer, and an organosilicon polymer, in which the organosilicon polymer has a specific partial structure, the block polymer has a polyester segment and a vinyl polymer segment, the melting point is 55° C. or more and 90° C. or less, the mass ratio of the polyester segment to the vinyl polymer segment is 40/60 to 80/20, and the polyester segment has a specific unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoya Isono, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Harumi Takada, Reo Tagawa, Shiro Kuroki, Sara Yoshida