Organic Heavy Metal, Aluminum, Or Silicon Compound Adjuvant Patents (Class 430/108.3)
  • Patent number: 9823595
    Abstract: Provided is a toner including toner particle, the toner particle having a core-shell structure having: a core containing a core resin, a colorant, and a wax; and a shell layer containing a resin “A” on a surface of the core, in which: the resin “A” contains a segment having an organopolysiloxane structure; the toner particle has an amount of Si derived from the organopolysiloxane structure of 6.0 or more and 10.0 or less, the amount of Si being measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; the resin “A” is a polymer of a monomer composition containing a monomer “a” having two or more polymerizable unsaturated groups in one molecule thereof; and the monomer “a” satisfies the following formula (1). (Xa?1.0)×Ya?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritaka Toyoizumi, Yusuke Kosaki, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Kenji Aoki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Takaaki Kaya, Atsushi Tani, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 9798259
    Abstract: Described herein is an electrostatic ink composition comprising a liquid carrier; and chargeable particles comprising a co-polymer of an alkylene monomer and an acrylic acid monomer, and a pearlescent, non-metallic pigment, wherein the chargeable particles are dispersed in the liquid carrier. Also described herein are a method of electrophotographic printing and a print substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexey S. Kabalnov, Guang Jin Li, Brian E. Curcio, Yaron Grinwald, Reut Avigdor
  • Patent number: 9766566
    Abstract: A toner includes a toner particle including a surface layer containing an organosilicon polymer. The toner particle contains a styrene acrylic resin and a block polymer that has i) a polyester segment C and a vinyl polymer segment A, the mass ratio C/A of the polyester segment C to the vinyl polymer segment A being 40/60 to 80/20, and ii) a melting point Tm of 55° C. to 90° C. The organosilicon polymer has a partial structure represented by Rf—SiO3/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinsuke Mochizuki, Kenichi Nakayama, Koji Abe, Toshihiko Katakura, Masatake Tanaka, Naoya Isono
  • Patent number: 9751902
    Abstract: Described is a production process for the preparation of an organic titanium derivative useful for the preparation of yellow inks for digital printing on ceramics, comprising the following steps: (i) mixing an organic and/or inorganic compound of titanium (IV) and a 1,3-diol of formula: wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from H and a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl radical, in the presence of at least an organic solvent immiscible with water and subsequent removal of reaction by-products; (ii) adding water to the reaction mixture in a H2O:Ti?2 molar ratio and subsequent removal of unreacted water and reaction by-products; (iii) maturing the reaction mixture at a temperature of 180-200° C. for 16-50 hours. Also described are the titanium derivative obtainable by means of the above-reported process, an ink that contains the derivative and a method of digital printing on ceramics that uses said ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventor: Graziano Vignali
  • Patent number: 9740122
    Abstract: The present toner is an electrostatic latent image developing toner, and contains a toner base particle. The toner base particle contains a binder resin and a release agent. The binder resin contains a crystalline resin and a vinyl resin. When the storage elastic modulus G? at 50° C. is defined as G?50° C., the peak top temperature (° C.) of a specific endothermic peak in DSC of the toner is defined as Tm, the measurement temperature (° C.) at a G? of 1×106 Pa is defined as TmA, and the measurement temperature (° C.) at a G? of 1×105 Pa is defined as TmB, the toner satisfies the following expressions (1) to (3): G?50° C.?1×108??(1) TmB?TmA?8??(2) Tm<TmB??(3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takaki Kawamura, Aya Shirai, Kaori Fujino
  • Patent number: 9733583
    Abstract: Provided is a toner, including toner particle having surface layer, in which: the surface layer includes organosilicon polymer which has a partial structure represented by formula (1); in 29Si-NMR measurement of tetrahydrofuran-insoluble matter of toner particle, a ratio of a peak area for the partial structure represented by formula (1) to a total peak area for the organosilicon polymer is 5.0% or more; in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis of a surface of toner particle, a ratio of a density of a silicon atom dSi in the surface of toner particle is 1.0 to 28.6 atom %; and in a roughness curve of toner particle measured by using a scanning probe microscope: an arithmetic average roughness Ra is 10 to 300 nm; ?Ra/Ra is 0.60 or less; an average length RSm of a roughness curve element is 20 to 500 nm; and ?RSm/RSm is 0.60 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Kuroki, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Toshihiko Katakura, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Sara Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9733584
    Abstract: Provided is a toner that is improved in transferability as compared to the related art and that keeps its effects through repeated use. In particular, provided is a toner suppressed in dependency on transfer current control. The toner includes a toner particle including a surface layer containing an organosilicon polymer and a resin having an ionic functional group, the organosilicon polymer having a partial structure represented by the following formula (1), the toner particle containing 5.0% or more of the partial structure represented by the formula (1) per 1.000 silicon atom contained in the organosilicon polymer, the resin having an ionic functional group having a pKa of 6.0 or more and 9.0 or less: R0—SiO3/2??(1) in the formula (1), R0 represents an alkyl group having 1 or more and 6 or less carbon atoms, or a phenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akane Masumoto, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Toshihiko Katakura, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga, Shiro Kuroki
  • Patent number: 9726993
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles having a volume average particle diameter of 3 ?m to 16 ?m, wherein, when the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 30.0 ?m are set as T1, the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 2.5 ?m are set as T2, a rate of T2 to the toner particles is set as A, the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 ?m to 5 ?m is set as T3 and a rate of T3 to the toner particles is set as B, the rate of T2 occupying T1 is from 10% by number to 40% by number and a fine particle ratio C represented by A/B is from 0.18 to 0.40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yaoi, Yasushige Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9720349
    Abstract: A developer supply kit detachably mountable to a developer supplying apparatus comprising a developer supply container and a developer accommodated therein, wherein the developer supply container includes, a developer accommodating portion accommodating the developer, a discharge opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion, a drive receiving portion to which a driving force is inputted from the developer supplying apparatus, and a pump portion operable so that an internal pressure of the developer accommodating portion alternately and repetitively changes between a pressure lower than a ambient pressure and a pressure higher than the ambient pressure, by the driving force received by the drive receiving portion, wherein the developer accommodated in the developer supply container includes toner containing binder resin material and a coloring material, the developer satisfies, 10?E (mJ)?80, 0.4?Ea (mJ)?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Yamaoka, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Kunihiko Nakamura, Yusuke Yamada, Emi Watanabe, Nobuo Nakajima, Katsuya Murakami
  • Patent number: 9658551
    Abstract: The present invention provides a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin, wherein the binder resin contains a vinylic resin and a polyester resin, the vinylic resin contains an organic silicon polymer having a specific structure, the organic silicon polymer is contained in the surface layer of the toner particle, the proportion of a silicon atom in the organic silicon polymer having a specific structure is at least 5%, the polyester resin is a specific polymer, and the toner particle contains a specific amount of the polyester resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei Terui, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Koji Abe, Harumi Takada
  • Patent number: 9618868
    Abstract: A color toner image with a metallic effect can be prepared by forming one or more latent images and developing them with non-conductive metallic dry toner particles and color toner particles. The developed color toner image can be transferred to a receiver material, and fixed to provide a color toner image with a metallic effect. The non-conductive metallic dry toner particles have a polymeric binder phase and non-conductive metal oxide particles dispersed therein. Before fixing, each non-conductive metallic dry toner particle has a mean volume weighted diameter (Dvol) of 15-40 ?m and the non-conductive metal oxide particles are present in an amount of at least 20-50 weight %. The ratio of the non-conductive metallic dry toner particle Dvol to the average equivalent circular diameter (ECD) of the non-conductive metal oxide particles in the non-conductive metallic dry toner particles is greater than 0.1 and up to and including 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Dinesh Tyagi, Louise Granica
  • Patent number: 9588451
    Abstract: A toner, wherein an amount of Al detected in the toner is 0.7% to 1.3%, where the amount of Al detected is determined based on quantitative analysis of Al by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis (XPS), and wherein [Tg2nd (THF insoluble matter)] is ?40° C. to 30° C., where the [Tg2nd (THF insoluble matter)] is a glass transition temperature measured in second heating of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of THF insoluble matter of the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Takeyama, Shinya Nakayama, Akinori Saitoh, Shinsuke Nagai, Hiroyuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 9580578
    Abstract: A process includes forming an emulsion comprising a monomer and a colorant, the colorant further including an anionic functional group and a lipophilic counter ion, and polymerizing the monomer to form a latex, the latex includes polymer nanoparticles having the colorant dispersed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Valerie M. Farrugia, Mihaela Maria Birau
  • Patent number: 9556300
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing resin particles, including the step of producing the resin particles by using a liquid which is prepared with a resin having an ionic functional group and a pKa of 6.0 to 9.0, an organic solvent, which can dissolve the resin and which has a solubility parameter of 12.0 or less, water, and a neutralizer, wherein the neutralizer contains an acid having a pKa of 3.0 or less or a base having a pKb of 3.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiko Nakamura, Akane Masumoto, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 9527874
    Abstract: Improved utilization of organosilicon compounds in hydrophobicizing finely divided particulate solids is accomplished by metering a partial amount of unreacted solids with organosilicon containing offgases derived from admixing and reacting a major portion of solids with organosilicon compounds and admixing the offgas-treated solids with the major portion of solids to be treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Torsten Gottschalk-Gaudig, Carl-Heinz Ehrke, Helmut Maginot
  • Patent number: 9527314
    Abstract: An ink jet recording method includes forming first and second liquid composition aggregated layers by respectively applying first and second liquid compositions containing resin to a recording medium using an ink jet recording head; performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a first fixation step using a first fixing unit; and performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a second fixation step using a second fixing unit followed by cooling to separate the medium from the second fixing unit. MFT1>MFT2 and T1>MFT1?T2>MFT2?T3 are satisfied, where MFT1, MFT2 are, respectively, minimum film forming temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers, and T1, T2, and T3 are temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers upon heating and pressurization in first and second fixation steps and upon separation in second fixation step, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuto Moriguchi, Eisuke Nishitani, Koichiro Nakazawa, Takumi Otani, Takayuki Sekine
  • Patent number: 9523932
    Abstract: A method for providing a developer mix having tribocharge uniformity across varying temperature and humidity conditions is provided. A developer mix used in a dual component development (DCD) system typically is a mixture of toner particles and magnetic carrier particles. Tribocharge uniformity is achieved in the developer mix by performing the step of treating the surface of the magnetic carrier particles with surface additives before the magnetic carrier particles are mixed with the toner particles. Surface additives include but are not limited to silica, titania and alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kasturi Rangan Srinivasan, Ligia Aura Bejat, Michael Anthony Blassingame, Rick Owen Jones, Brandon Michael Lin, James Craig Minor
  • Patent number: 9465346
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus forms a metallic toner image with the toner having metallic color tone. The plurality of developing sections includes either or both of a developing section for forming a black toner image with the black toner and a developing section for forming a white toner image with the white toner. The plurality of developing sections is provided with one or more than two developing sections for forming a metallic toner image with the toner having metallic color tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahito Kabai
  • Patent number: 9429860
    Abstract: A method for producing a toner that comprises toner particles, each of which comprises a binder resin, which comprises a resin (A) capable of forming a crystalline structure, and a colorant, the method including: a pressure holding step of, after preparing toner particles, holding the toner particles for 5 minutes or more at a pressure of 2.0 MPa or more under conditions of a temperature T1 (° C.) represented by formula (1): 20?T1?Tp2??(1) (wherein, Tp2 represents the onset temperature of the maximum endothermic peak derived from the resin (A)), wherein a peak temperature Tp1 of the maximum endothermic peak derived from the resin (A) during the first temperature rise of the toner particles as determined by differential scanning calorimetric measurement is 50° C. to 90° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Shuntaro Watanabe, Kenji Aoki, Atsushi Tani, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takaaki Kaya, Toshifumi Mori, Yusuke Kosaki, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 9417571
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit that fixes the toner image formed on the recording paper, a rubbing roller that rubs a fixing surface of the recording paper with the fixed toner image, and an image density detection unit that detects image density of the fixing surface of the recording paper having passed through the rubbing roller, wherein a plurality of patch images for fixability evaluation are formed on one piece of recording paper at a predetermined interval in a recording paper conveyance direction, fixing temperature of the fixing unit is changed for each of the formed patch images, the patch images are fixed to the recording paper, and comparison of each image density of a rubbed part and a non-rubbed part by the rubbing roller is performed for each patch image fixed at each fixing temperature, so that appropriate fixing temperature is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Mariko Fukami
  • Patent number: 9389581
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner particles containing at least a binder resin, a release agent, and a colorant; and an external additive having a volume average particle diameter (d) of from 70 nm to 400 nm, a ratio (d/?) of the volume average particle diameter (d) to a standard deviation (?) of a volumetric basis particle diameter of from 2.0 to 12, and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kitajima, Yutaka Saito, Michio Take, Yoshifumi Iida, Motoko Sakai
  • Patent number: 9354534
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles. Each toner particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin, a shell layer coating a surface of the toner core, and particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer. Each shell layer contains a thermosetting resin, and the particulates are present within the shell layer. Preferably, the content of the particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer is 0.1% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji Okada
  • Patent number: 9304422
    Abstract: It is intended to provide magnetic toner that produces a stable image density in long-term use and can prevent ghosting under conditions of low-temperature and low-humidity. The present invention provides magnetic toner including magnetic toner particles each containing a binder resin, a magnetic material and a releasing agent, and silica fine particles, wherein the silica fine particles include silica fine particles A and B, the silica fine particles A have a number-average particle size of 5-20 nm as primary particles, the silica fine particles B are produced by a sol-gel method, and have a number-average particle size of 40-200 nm as primary particles, an abundance ratio of secondary particles of the silica fine particles B is 5-40% by number, and a coverage ratio X1 of the surface of the magnetic toner particles with the silica fine particles determined by ESCA is 40.0-75.0% by area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Michihisa Magome, Kozue Uratani, Atsuhiko Ohmori
  • Patent number: 9304419
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner has toner particles that contain a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent containing hydrocarbon-based wax, styrene(meth)acrylic resin particles, and an aluminum element, wherein fluorescent X-ray NET intensity of the aluminum element existing in the toner particles is from 0.1 to 0.3, and 70% or more of the release agent among the entire release agent exists within 800 nm from the surface of the toner particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narumasa Sato, Kotaro Yoshihara, Eisuke Iwazaki, Tomoaki Tanaka, Asafumi Fujita, Noriyuki Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9239528
    Abstract: A toner comprising toner particles which comprise a binder resin and a colorant, and also inorganic fine particles as external additives, wherein the inorganic fine particles are silica fine particles and a group 2 element titanate fine particles, the inorganic fine particles have specific particle diameters, the silica fine particles have a coverage ratio X1 on the surfaces of the toner particles, which is not less than 40.0 surface area % and not more than 75.0 surface area %, when the theoretical coverage ratio by the silica fine particles is X2, the diffusion index defined as “diffusion index=X1/X2” satisfies the condition: diffusion index??0.0042×X1+0.62, and the external additives have an embedding ratio on the toner particles, which satisfies a specific range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Hasegawa, Takashi Matsui, Shuichi Hiroko, Yoshitaka Suzumura, Atsuhiko Ohmori, Keisuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9223240
    Abstract: Since a charge amount of a toner and a charge rise characteristic thereof are liable to be influenced by the change in temperature and humidity condition, the change in image density occurs in printing, and in particular, in high temperature and high humidity environment, inconveniences, such as image fogging, occur due to non-uniformity of the charge amount distribution. In a toner including toner particles obtained by dispersing a monomer composition containing a polymerizable monomer and a colorant in an aqueous medium to form droplets and polymerizing the polymerizable monomer in the droplets, the toner particles contain a polymer formed by a polymerization reaction of the polymerizable monomer and a metal compound having a vinyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Kenmoku, Hitoshi Itabashi, Akane Masumoto
  • Patent number: 9213249
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development of the present invention includes toner particles containing toner mother particles and an external additive. The external additive contains fatty acid metal salt particles, and a volume based particle diameter (size) distribution of the fatty acid metal salt particles has two peaks on a side of smaller size and a side of larger size, respectively. A volume based mean particle diameter of the fatty acid metal salt particles having the peak on the side of smaller size is 3.0 ?m or smaller and a volume based mean particle diameter of the fatty acid metal salt particles having the peak on the side of larger size is larger than a volume based mean particle diameter of the toner mother particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kadonome, Yukio Hosoya, Kazue Nakamura, Saburou Hiraoka, Yasuko Uchino
  • Patent number: 9182694
    Abstract: A toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains: a crystalline polyester resin (A); a non-crystalline resin (B); and a composite resin (C), where the composite resin (C) contains a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit, wherein the toner contains chloroform insoluble matter in an amount of 1% by mass to 30% by mass, wherein the toner has a molecular weight distribution having a main peak in a range of 1,000 to 10,000 and a half width of 15,000 or less, where the molecular weight distribution is obtained through gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of tetrahydrofuran soluble matter of the toner, and wherein the toner has an endothermic peak in a range of 90° C. to 130° C. in measurement through differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Saori Yamada, Hisashi Nakajima, Masashi Nagayama, Shinya Hanatani, Mariko Takii, Yoshitaka Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9176410
    Abstract: A toner having good low-temperature fixability, charge stability, environmental stability, and durability and capable of stably producing high-quality images for a long time is provided. The toner includes a toner particle having a core-shell structure constituted of a core and a shell phase. The core contains a binder resin, a colorant, and wax, and the shell phase contains a resin A. The resin A is a comb polymer including a main chain portion (X), a side chain portion (Y), and a side chain portion (Z). The main chain portion (X) is a vinyl polymer, the side chain portion (Y) has an aliphatic polyester structure and has an ester group concentration of a polyester segment of 6.5 mmol/g or less, and the side chain portion (Z) has an organic polysiloxane structure and has an average number of Si—O bond repeating units of a siloxane segment of 2 or more and 100 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Tani, Toshifumi Mori, Takaaki Kaya, Tetsuya Kinumatsu, Kenji Aoki, Shuntaro Watanabe, Yoshihiro Nakagawa, Takashige Kasuya
  • Patent number: 9098001
    Abstract: Provided is a surface-modified metal oxide powder obtained by treating a surface of a metal oxide powder, wherein a ratio (A/B) of an initial triboelectrostatic charge amount (A) at a time of one minute after dispersion of the surface-modified metal oxide powder into a ferrite carrier to a triboelectrostatic charge amount (B) after a lapse of 30 additional minutes is from 1.0 to 2.0, and the triboelectrostatic charge amount (B) is from ?300 to +300 ?C/g. The surface-modified metal oxide powder has a weaker charging property and a better stability over time of a triboelectrostatic charge amount than a conventional one; and thus, when this powder is used as an external additive, various properties including flowability and electrical charging can be stabilized, and in addition, problems such as fogging and image deterioration can be drastically remedied without significantly deteriorating characteristics as a developer and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON AEROSIL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Tashiro, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 9083035
    Abstract: In one aspect, a separator that includes a porous substrate; and a coating layer including an inorganic compound-organic/inorganic binder, and a binder polymer, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Ock Yeou, Ihn Kim, Sam-Jin Park, Kwi-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 9052618
    Abstract: An overcoat composition for electrophotography includes at least one of compounds having the following formulae (1) to (3): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and n represents an integer of from 4 to 6; and wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and a and b independently represent an integer of from 1 to 5 on the condition that a+b is from 4 to 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Asami, Masato Iio, Masaki Yoshino, Tomoko Kino
  • Patent number: 9034549
    Abstract: A toner is provided that exhibits a satisfactory heat-resistant storability and an excellent low-temperature fixability. The toner has toner particles each of which contains at least a binder resin and a wax, and is characterized in that this toner is obtained by attaching a metal compound to the surface of the toner particle and thereafter performing a surface treatment with a hot air current; the binder resin contains at least a polyester resin; and the metal compound is formed by coordinating or bonding a specific aromatic oxycarboxylic acid to a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Shiotari, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Kunihiko Nakamura, Nozomu Komatsu, Kosuke Fukudome, Takayuki Itakura
  • Patent number: 9029496
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal polyester amide resin which has a good hue. Specific monomers are polymerized using a specific catalyst. The specific monomers are composed of: at least one kind of a monomer selected from among aromatic aminocarboxylic acids, aromatic hydroxyamines and aromatic diamines; and at least one kind of a monomer selected from among aromatic hydroxy carboxylic acids, aromatic dicarboxylic acids or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids, and aromatic diols or aliphatic diols. It is preferable that the content of the at least one kind of a monomer selected from among aromatic aminocarboxylic acids, aromatic hydroxyamines and aromatic diamines is from 0.1 mol % to 85 mol % (inclusive).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Polyplastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Kawahara, Yoshiaki Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20150125790
    Abstract: A magnetic toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a magnetic member, a first inorganic fine particle and an organic-inorganic composite particle on the surface of the toner particle, wherein the organic-inorganic composite particle i) has a structure in which a second inorganic fine particle is embedded in a resin particle, and ii) is contained in an amount of 0.5 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less based on the mass of the toner; the first inorganic fine particle contains an inorganic oxide fine particle selected from the group consisting of a silica fine particle, a titanium oxide fine particle and an alumina fine particle; has a number average particle diameter (D1) of 5 nm or more and 25 nm or less, and contains the silica fine particle in an amount of 85 mass % or more based on the inorganic oxide fine particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Yojiro Hotta, Koji Nishikawa, Shohei Tsuda, Motohide Shiozawa, Takeshi Naka, Kazuo Terauchi, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Takayuki Itakura
  • Publication number: 20150118610
    Abstract: Toners and processes useful in providing toners suitable for electrophotographic apparatuses, including apparatuses such as digital, image-on-image, and similar apparatuses. In particular, emulsion aggregate toner compositions that use two different emulsion aggregation (EA) technologies and which comprise a base resin composed of both styrene-acrylate and polyester resins. These toner compositions further include polyaluminum chloride (PAC) instead of the more commonly used aluminum sulfate as the flocculant or aggregating agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kimberly D. Nosella, Guerino G. Sacripante, Richard P.N. Veregin, Edward G. Zwartz, David J.W. Lawton
  • Patent number: 9017910
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a toner resin comprising a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane moiety that may be used in manufacturing an emulsion aggregation (EA) toner for imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Valerie Farrugia, Kimberly Nosella
  • Patent number: 9005858
    Abstract: A toner to develop electrostatic latent images, which has surface characteristics that may simultaneously improve charge uniformity, charge stability, transferability, and cleaning ability. The toner to develop electrostatic latent images may include core particles comprising a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent; and an external additive including silica particles and titanium dioxide particles, wherein the external additive is attached to external surfaces of the core particles, wherein an iron intensity [Fe], a silicon intensity [Si], and a titanium intensity [Ti] that are measured by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) satisfy both conditions, 0.004?[Si]/[Fe]?0.009 and 0.8?[Ti]/[Fe]?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Se-young Yoon, Sung-jin Park, Hong-chul Shin, Seung-sik Woo, Hae-ree Joo
  • Publication number: 20150099220
    Abstract: The present invention provides a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin and an organic silicon polymer, wherein the organic silicon polymer has a specific structure, the proportion of the specific structure to the number of a silicon atom in the organic silicon polymer contained in the toner particle is at least 5.0%, the toner particle contain a polyester resin of from at least 1.0% by mass to less than 80% by mass, and the polyester resin is a specific polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Yuhei Terui, Katsuyuki Nonaka, Tsuneyoshi Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20150079512
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are treated fumed silica particles comprising a modified polydialkylsiloxane on the surface thereof, a method for preparing treated fumed silica particles, and a rheological system comprising a polar liquid and treated fumed silica particles. Also disclosed are toner compositions comprising toner particles and treated fumed silica particles comprising a modified polydialkylsiloxane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Angelica Maria Sanchez Garcia, Elizabeth Sims, Sean Sullivan, Geary Graham, Hajime Kambara
  • Publication number: 20150072282
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles. Each toner particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin, a shell layer coating a surface of the toner core, and particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer. Each shell layer contains a thermosetting resin, and the particulates are present within the shell layer. Preferably, the content of the particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer is 0.1% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Seiji OKADA
  • Publication number: 20150050592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to toner for electrostatic charge image development including a resin, a metal-containing compound, and a colorant compound precursor to be converted to a colorant compound through a reaction with the metal-containing compound by heat applied at heat fixing. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide toner for electrostatic charge image development which is excellent in fluidity and storage stability and a method of manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Junya Ueda, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Asao Matsushima, Kimihiko Ookubo
  • Publication number: 20150037720
    Abstract: Provided is magnetic toner capable of favorably maintain fluidity of the magnetic toner in a developing unit even after a large number of image formation. The magnetic toner to which an external additive that has 1) a number average particle diameter of 70 or more and 200 or less, 2) a shape factor SF-1 of 100 or more and 250 or less, and 3) a shape factor SF-2 of 105 or more and 250 or less, is added, and a covering rate by silica on the surfaces of toner particles is 40.0% or more and 70.0% or less, and the magnetic toner has specific fluidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shohei Tsuda, Yojiro Hotta, Kouji Nishikawa, Shotaro Nomura, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Masami Fujimoto, Takayuki Itakura
  • Publication number: 20150037721
    Abstract: Provided is a toner that has excellent low-temperature fixability and is capable of obtaining an image having a stable image density, in which the occurrence of image defects is suppressed. The toner includes toner base particles, each of which contains a binder resin and a magnetic material, and organic-inorganic composite fine particles on each of the toner base particles. Each of the organic-inorganic composite fine particles comprises a vinyl resin particle, and inorganic fine particles which are embedded in the vinyl resin particle, and at least a part of which are exposed. The volumetric specific heat of the organic-inorganic composite fine particles and the volumetric specific heat of the toner base particles satisfy a predetermined provision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Shotaro Nomura, Masami Fujimoto, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Kouji Nishikawa, Daisuke Yoshiba, Hiroki Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20150024316
    Abstract: A part material for printing three-dimensional parts with an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system, the part material including a composition having an engineering-grade thermoplastic material and a charge control agent. The part material is provided in a powder form having a controlled particle size, and is configured for use in the electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system having a layer transfusion assembly for printing the three-dimensional parts in a layer-by-layer manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: James E. Orrock, Steven A. Chillscyzn, Trevor I. Martin
  • Publication number: 20150024313
    Abstract: A toner composition includes toner particles and an additive disposed on an exterior surface of the toner particles, the additive includes uncoated zirconium oxide particles, the toner composition is substantially free of one or more rare earth compounds and the uncoated zirconium oxide particles are present in a sufficient amount to reduce bias charge roller contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Enright, Thomas R. Pickering, Richard A. Klenkler, Richard Philip Nelson Veregin
  • Publication number: 20150024317
    Abstract: A part material for printing three-dimensional parts with an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system, the part material including a composition having a high-performance thermoplastic material and a charge control agent. The part material is provided in a powder form having a controlled particle size, and is configured for use in the electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system having a layer transfusion assembly for printing the three-dimensional parts in a layer-by-layer manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: James E. Orrock, Steven A. Chillscyzn, Trevor I. Martin
  • Publication number: 20150024314
    Abstract: A toner composition includes toner particles and additives disposed on an exterior surface of the toner particles, the additives include uncoated particles satisfying the equation: 14.428?1.793×density(g/cm3)?1,363,353×conductivity(ohm·cm?1)?6; surface-treated silica, surface-treated titania, and spacer particles, the toner composition is substantially free of a rare earth compound and the uncoated particles are present in a sufficient amount to reduce bias charge roller contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Philip Nelson Veregin, Thomas Edward Enright, Thomas R. Pickering, Richard A. Klenkler, Cuong Vong
  • Publication number: 20150024315
    Abstract: A toner composition includes toner particles and an additive disposed on exterior surfaces of the toner particles, the additive includes uncoated silicon carbide particles, the toner composition is substantially free of one or more rare earth compound and the uncoated silicon carbide particles are present in a sufficient amount to reduce bias charge roller contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Enright, Thomas R. Pickering, Richard A. Klenkler, Richard Philip Nelson Veregin
  • Publication number: 20150010862
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image includes a toner particle and a carrier particle. The toner particle includes an external additive on a surface of a toner mother particle including at least a binding resin. The carrier particle includes a resin covering layer on a surface of a carrier core material particle. The resin covering layer includes a covering resin obtained by polymerizing at least an isobutyl methacrylate monomer and includes a nitrogen atom as an atom composing the covering resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu MATSUMOTO, Kosuke NAKAMURA, Satoshi UCHINO, Hidehito HARUKI, Hiroyuki KOZURU