Dry Toner Having Chemically Identified Binder Patents (Class 430/109.1)
  • Patent number: 8361690
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic latent images, including a binder resin; a colorant; and a release agent, wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of from 55 to 75° C., a melting point (T1/2) of from 95 to 125° C. as measured by a flow tester in a ½ method, and ?Ts of from 1 to 5° C., and wherein ?Ts is defined by the following formula: ?Ts=Ts?T(Ls/2) wherein Ts is a softening point of the toner; T(Ls/2) is a temperature when a stroke is Ls/2; and Ls is a stroke (mm) at Ts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Sakaguchi, Hideki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8357479
    Abstract: A toner comprising: a component consisting of a thermoplastic resin containing an amorphous plant-derived resin having a carboxyl group; a component consisting of a crystalline epoxy resin having a glycidyl group; a component consisting of a cross-linked resin generated through a reaction between the carboxyl group of the plant-derived resin and the glycidyl group of the crystalline epoxy resin; and a colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Ariyoshi, Yasuhiro Shibai
  • Publication number: 20130011774
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes: a release agent; a pigment; and a binder resin. The content of the pigment is from about 10% by weight to about 50% by weight, the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the toner is in the range of from about ?60° C. to about 20° C., and the Young's modulus at 20° C. is in the range of from about 1×100 MPa to about 1×103 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAMIWAKI, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Yusuke IKEDA, Koji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 8349531
    Abstract: Compounds and methods of forming compounds useful as a toner or toner precursor are disclosed. The compounds may include an aqueous dispersion, the dispersion including: (A) at least one thermoplastic resin; and (B) 0 to 5 weight percent of a stabilizing agent, based on the total weight of (A) and (B). The dispersion may have an average volume diameter particle size from about 0.05 to about 10 microns. A combined amount of the thermoplastic resin and the stabilizing agent may have an acid number of less than 25 mg KOH/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Young, Richard A. Lundgard, Michael J. Johnson, Qichun Wan, Matthew J. Kalinowski, Mechelle A. Churchfield, Gary M. Strandburg
  • Patent number: 8343702
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electrophotographic toner and methods for preparing the same, including a first binder resin, a second binder resin, a colorant, a releasing agent, a charge control agent, and an ionomer, wherein the second binder resin is a resin derived biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In Kim
  • Publication number: 20120328978
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a developing agent includes a binder resin and a coloring agent, wherein when the developing agent is subjected to methanol extraction, and a filtrate of the resulting extract is subjected to HPLC measurement, the ratio of a peak area at a retention time of 10 minutes or less to the total peak area is 15.0% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Junichi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120328977
    Abstract: Encapsulated toner particles are formed by: aggregating core material particles containing at least a colorant and a core material resin in an aqueous dispersion medium to form core particles; adding coating resin particles into the aqueous dispersion medium during progress of the formation of the core material at a point of time when the volume-based median particle diameter of the core particles formed by the aggregation reaches 30 to 83% of that of desired toner particles; and continuing the aggregation to form a coating layer composed of a composite aggregate of the core material particles and the coating resin particles on the core material. In the thus-obtained toner, the colorant is uniformly and well incorporated in the toner particles, and therefore, the coloring ability is improved without causing a problem of release of fine powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikuta, Takayasu Aoki, Tsuyoshi Itou, Motonari Udo, Takafumi Hara, Kazuhisa Takeda
  • Patent number: 8338066
    Abstract: A toner including a resin having a polyester skeleton, a coloring agent, a vinyl based copolymer resin, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner is manufactured by dissolving or dispersing a resin including the resin having a polyester skeleton and a mixture of the vinyl based copolymer resin and the releasing agent in an organic solvent to obtain a lysate and/or a dispersion material, dispersing the lysate and/or the dispersion material in an aqueous medium to obtain a liquid dispersion and removing the organic solvent from the liquid dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nozaki, Chiyoshi Nozaki, Atsushi Yamamoto, Minoru Nakamura, Akira Izutani
  • Publication number: 20120322001
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a developing agent includes a toner core particle containing a binder resin having a carboxyl group and a coloring agent and a surface layer formed on the toner core particle. The surface layer is formed by crosslinking the toner core particle, a water-soluble polymeric crosslinking agent which crosslinks with a carboxyl group and a water-soluble polymer having a carboxyl group in an aqueous medium. The developing agent can be fixed by a fixing device having a release oil applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Taishi Takano, Tsuyoshi Itou
  • Patent number: 8329783
    Abstract: The present invention is toner particle that includes a continuous phase of binder polymer and a second phase of hydrocolloid. The particle has a porosity of at least 10 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Mridula Nair, Xiqiang Yang, Tamara K. Jones, Jason Morgan
  • Publication number: 20120301819
    Abstract: Provided is a toner having excellent blocking resistance and flowability. The toner comprises a binder resin, a releasing agent, a colorant and an external additive, wherein the toner particles satisfy expression (1): 2.0?RD/TD?2.5 ??(1), where RD is the real density of the toner particles and TD is the tap density of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae Woong Choi, Jae Bum Park, Young Jae Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120295193
    Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin containing a crystalline resin and a non-crystalline resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has ½ flow onset temperature T½ of 120° C. to 135° C., and wherein a peak intensity ratio of an intensity of a peak derived from the crystalline resin and the releasing agent to an intensity of a peak derived from the binder resin as measured in FTIR-ATR is 0.10 to 0.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Shinya HANATANI, Naohiro WATANABE, Tsuyoshi SUGIMOTO, Tomoyuki SATOH, Mamoru HOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20120295192
    Abstract: To provide a toner which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and capsules, wherein the binder resin contains a thermoplastic elastomer, and wherein the capsules each encapsulate a plasticizer capable of softening the thermoplastic elastomer and the capsules are fractured upon application of predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo KATANO, Yukimichi Someya, Shinji Tezuka, Fuminari Kaneko, Kohji Takeuchi, Kohji Matsuoka, Takuma Nakamura, Tsuneo Kurotori, Hidekazu Yaginuma
  • Patent number: 8313880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magenta toner formulation that may be used in a toner printer cartridge for an electrophotographic printer. The magenta toner may include polymer resin binder containing three polymer resins with different number average molecular weight values. The concentration of such polymer resins may be selected to provide a desired temperature versus viscosity behavior for the magenta toner that may be configured to conform to the viscosity versus temperature provide for yellow, cyan and black toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Danielle Renee Ashley, James Robert Combes, John Joseph Earley, Lale Gokbudak Lovell, George Pharris Marshall, Walter Mychajlowskij
  • Patent number: 8309292
    Abstract: A polyester resin for electrostatic image developing toner includes: two or more polyester blocks, and the polyester resin satisfying the following conditions (A) to (C): (A) an ester concentration of the polyester resin is about 0.01 or more and less than about 0.1; (B) a weight average molecular weight of the polyester resin is about 24,000 or more; and (C) a difference in SP values of at least two kinds of the two or more polyester blocks is about 0.1 to about 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaki, Masaki Hirakata, Hideo Maehata, Hirotaka Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20120282000
    Abstract: To provide a toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin in an amount of 50% by mass or greater, and wherein the organic-modified layered inorganic mineral is an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral in which at least part of ions present between layers of a layered inorganic mineral are modified with organic ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Shinya Nakayama, Atsushi Yamamoto, Masahide Yamada, Hideyuki Santo, Daiki Yamashita, Suzuka Amemori
  • Patent number: 8304155
    Abstract: Images produced by electrophotography are often subjected to harsh conditions, such as high temperature and high relative humidity conditions. Prints when subjected to face-to-face stacking under these conditions tend to stick and are difficult to separate without damage. Ethylene-bis-stearamide is incorporated in a protective toner formulation employing a toner binder having a higher glass transition temperature than that of the conventional CYMK colored image toners employed to provide a protective layer in fused images. Further, ethylene-bis-stearamide does not interfere with typical oil release additives used in fuser rollers. By combining ethylene-bis-stearamide with polyalkane waxes having a weight average molecular weight of equal to or greater than 2000 and a poly dispersity of less than 2.0, addition protection can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dinesh Tyagi, Walter B. Sherwood, Louise Granica
  • Publication number: 20120276476
    Abstract: Toner particles having high transcription efficiency and reducing toner toner consumption. The toner includes a binder resin and a colorant, wherein a particle diameter distribution of the toner particles satisfy the following conditions: GSD??GSD??GSD???(1) 0.80?GSD??0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Bum Park, Young Jae Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120270147
    Abstract: The particulate material production method includes vibrating a particulate material composition liquid in a liquid column resonance chamber having at least one nozzle to form a standing wave in the particulate material composition liquid caused by liquid column resonance, so that droplets of the particulate material composition liquid are ejected in a droplet ejection direction from the nozzle so as to fly in a space in a flight direction; feeding a gas in a direction substantially perpendicular to the droplet ejection direction to change the flight direction of the ejected droplets; and solidifying the droplets in the space to produce a particulate material. The particulate material composition liquid includes at least a solvent and a component of the particulate material dissolved or dispersed in the solvent, and the nozzle is located at a location corresponding to an anitnode of the standing wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Kiyotada Katoh, Yasutada Shitara, Minoru Masuda, Yoshihiro Norikane, Kenta Kenjoh, Satoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8293444
    Abstract: A toner that includes at least one polyester resin wherein the amount of free polyvalent acid monomer in the polyester resin is less than 4 mg/gram, and wherein the percentage of the at least one polyester resin with a MW less than 1500 is less than about 10%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John L. Pawlak, Timothy L. Lincoln, William H. Hollenbaugh, Jr., Yuhua Tong, Brendan H. Williamson
  • Patent number: 8293442
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin particle having a volume average particle diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm, obtained by polymerizing an addition polymerizable monomer containing a silsesquioxane (a) represented by Formula (I) or by copolymerizing the silsesquioxane (a) with an addition polymerizable monomer (b), where R1 to R7 each independently represent a group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted arylalkyl; any hydrogen in the alkyl group is optionally substituted by fluorine and any —CH2— is optionally substituted by —O—, —CH?CH—, cycloalkylene or cycloalkenylene; any hydrogen in alkylene in the arylalkyl group is optionally substituted by fluorine and any —CH2— is optionally substituted by —O— or —CH?CH—; and A1 represents an addition polymerizable functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., JNC Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Naohito Shimota, Hiroshi Yamashita, Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shinichi Wakamatsu, Kenya Itoh, Mikio Yamahiro
  • Publication number: 20120264043
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner including: a binder resin; a colorant; and a wax, wherein the intensity ratio of an absorbance at 2,850 cm?1 derived from the wax to an absorbance at 828 cm?1 derived from the binder resin, represented by “absorbance derived from the wax/absorbance derived from the binder resin”, is in the range of 0.1 to 0.5, where the absorbances are measured by FTIR-ATR, and the intensity ratio serves as a value for determining the amount of the wax present within 0.3 ?m in depth from surfaces of particles of the toner after the toner has been heated to 140° C. and then cooled, and wherein the toner has a storage elastic modulus of 5,000 Pa or greater at 140° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Naohiro Watanabe, Naohito Shimota, Yasuaki Iwamoto, Masana Shiba, Satoshi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20120251188
    Abstract: A developer includes particles of developer base material containing a binder resin and external additive added to surfaces of the particles of developer base material. A loose bulk density is not smaller than 0.300 g/ml but not larger than 0.420 g/ml, and a release rate of the external additive from the particles of developer base material is not lower than 5% but not higher than 15%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20120251940
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing a toner for electrophotography including the following (1) to (4): (1): adding an aggregating agent to a resin particle dispersion (a) so as to attain an aggregating agent concentration Ea (wt %), to thereby produce an aggregated particle dispersion (A); (2): adding a resin microparticle dispersion (b) to the dispersion (A), to thereby produce a dispersion (B) having an aggregating agent concentration Eb (wt %) satisfying 0.60?Eb/Ea<1; (3): modifying the aggregating agent concentration of the dispersion (B), to thereby produce a dispersion (C) of resin microparticle-deposited aggregated particles, having an aggregating agent concentration Ec (wt %) satisfying 0<Ec/Ea?0.30; and (4): heating the resin microparticle-deposited aggregated particles in the dispersion (C) at a temperature falling within a range between Tg and Tg+20 (0 C.) of the resin microparticles in the resin microparticle dispersion (b), to thereby coalesce the aggregated particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: KAO Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuhata
  • Publication number: 20120244467
    Abstract: Toner particles having excellent cleaning properties and glossing properties. The toner particles include a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a colorant, wherein toner particles satisfy the following conditions. 50° C.?T1/2?Tg?100° C.??(1) 50° C.?Tg60° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Bum Park, Young Jae Kwon, Dae Woong Choi
  • Patent number: 8273515
    Abstract: A toner containing a lignin resin, a carbon-neutral biomass polymer having a low environmental load and taking global environmental protection into account, as a constitutional component of a binder resin, and having a wide fixing non-offset range and an excellent fixing property, is provided. The toner contains at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent. Furthermore, in the toner, the binder resin includes a resin A that is a lignin resin and a resin B that is another resin component, and the resin B has a peak top molecular weight of 103 to 104 and an acid number of 20 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Ariyoshi, Katsuru Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120237870
    Abstract: A toner including a main body particle, a layer B located overlying the main body particle, and a layer A located overlying the layer B is provided. The binder resin includes an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin. The layer B is comprised of particles of a resin B. The layer A is comprised of particles of a resin A. A method of manufacturing the above toner is also provided. The method includes dissolving or dispersing toner components in an organic solvent to prepare a toner components liquid. The toner components include the binder resin. The method further includes emulsifying the toner components liquid in an aqueous medium to prepare an emulsion. The aqueous medium contains the particles of the resins A and B. The method further includes removing the organic solvent from the emulsion and heating the emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Masaki Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Satoyuki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20120237267
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner including: toner particles each containing binder resin and colorant; and an external additive supported on the toner particles, wherein the toner particles each have protrusions on surface thereof, average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.10 ?m or more but less than 0.50 ?m, standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.20 or less, coverage rate of the protrusions on the surface of each toner particle is 30% to 90%, the external additive includes at least two different particles including external additive (A) and one or more external additives (B), external additive (A) has longest average primary particle diameter among the external additives and charged to have the opposite polarity to the toner particles, and at least one of the external additives (B) is charged to have the same polarity as the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUKAO, Takuya Kadota, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Tsuyoshi Nozaki, Yoshimichi Ishikawa, Kazuoki Fuwa, Tomoharu Miki
  • Publication number: 20120231381
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner including: a toner particle containing a coloring agent and a binder resin; and an external additive having a volume average particle diameter of from 70 nm to 400 nm, an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.9 and a standard deviation of circularity of not more than 0.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki KITAJIMA, Yutaka SAITO, Masahiro TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20120231384
    Abstract: A magnetic toner which has superior charging stability and charging uniformity, maintains stable developing performance without any dependence on service environments and may less cause any decrease in image density and any image defects such as fog and ghost, the magnetic toner has magnetic toner particles, each of the magnetic toner particles has magnetic toner base particle containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and an inorganic fine powder, (a) the magnetic toner having, at a frequency of 100 kHz and a temperature of 30° C., a dielectric loss factor (??) of 2.5×10?1 pF/m or more and 7.0×10?1 pF/m or less and a dielectric dissipation factor (tan ?L) of 3.0×10?2 or less, (b) the magnetic toner having, in a dielectric dissipation factor (tan ?) thereof at a frequency of 100 kHz, a maximum value (tan ?H) within the temperature range of 60° C. to 140° C.; and the tan ?H and the tan ?L satisfying (tan ?H?tan ?L)?3.0×10?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kozue Aoki, Yusuke Hasegawa, Yoshitaka Suzumura
  • Publication number: 20120225378
    Abstract: Included is an emulsion aggregation toner formulation having at least one latex and a combination of at least two waxes, wherein one wax is a synthetic wax, and another wax is a natural wax, and further including a developer containing a carrier and the just-described toner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel W. Asarese, Grazyna E. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz, Eugene F. Young, William H. Hollenbaugh, JR., Eunhee Lee
  • Patent number: 8257899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes for the preparation of unsaturated polyesters. In embodiments, a process of the present disclosure includes reacting an organic diol with a cyclic alkylene carbonate in the presence of a first catalyst to thereby form a polyalkoxy diol, optionally adding thereto a further amount of cyclic alkylene carbonate in the presence of a second catalyst, and subsequently polycondensing the resulting mixture with a dicarboxylic acid in combination with an anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Guerino G. Sacripante
  • Publication number: 20120219321
    Abstract: A toner including a binder resin, a colorant and protruding portions on a surface of the toner, wherein the average length of long sides of the protruding portions is 0.1 ?m or greater, but less than 0.5 ?m, wherein the standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protruding portions is 0.2 or less, and wherein the protruding portions have a coverage of 30% to 90%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro Fukao, Takuya Kadota, Yoshihiro Mikuriya, Tsuyoshi Nozaki, Yoshimichi Ishikawa, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tomoharu Miki, Kazuoki Fuwa
  • Publication number: 20120214096
    Abstract: A toner to develop an electrostatic charge image, a method of preparing the toner, a toner supply device employing the toner, an apparatus to form an image employing the toner, and a method of forming an image using the toner are provided. The toner includes a binder resin including a first type of binder resin having a first weight-average molecular weight and a second type of binder resin having a second weight-average molecular weight different than the first weight-average molecular weight, a colorant, and a releasing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kyeong PANG, Tae-hoe Koo, Su-bum Park, Ju-yeon Lee, Jun-young Lee
  • Patent number: 8247147
    Abstract: A toner including toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin is a vinyl-based resin. The toner contains a THF insoluble matter in a quantity of 0.0 mass % or more to less than 16.0 mass %. The toner has a main peak in a molecular weight domain Dr1 ranging from 5,000 to 80,000 in measurement of THF soluble matter of the toner with a gel permeation chromatogram (GPC)-differential refractive index detector (RI), and the toner has a main peak in a molecular weight domain Dm1 ranging from 10,000 to 120,000 and at least one peak in a molecular weight domain Dm2 ranging from 300,000 to 7,000,000 in the GPC-RI measurement in measurement with a GPC-multi-angle laser light scattering detector (MALLS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Shinya Yachi, Satoshi Handa, Kazumi Yoshizaki, Emi Tosaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Nobuhisa Abe, Yushi Mikuriya
  • Patent number: 8236471
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, the toner including a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin and a noncrystalline polyester resin, a colorant, a releasing agent, a ketone solvent, and an alcoholic solvent, the total concentration of the ketone solvent and the alcoholic solvent in the toner dispersion liquid being less than about 10 ppm when 0.5 g of the toner is dispersed in 2 g of deionized water to form a toner dispersion liquid, and the total concentration of the ketone solvent and the alcoholic solvent in the toner dispersion liquid being from about 2 ppm to about 50 ppm when 0.5 g of the toner is dispersed in 2 g of N,N-dimethylformamide to form a toner dispersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinpei Takagi, Satoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8232035
    Abstract: According to embodiments illustrated herein, there is provided a black toner having a resin, an optional additive, and at least two or more colored pigments, and the at least two or more colored pigments are selected from the group consisting of a blue pigment, a green pigment, a red pigment, a magenta pigment, a cyan pigment, a yellow pigment, a white pigment, and mixtures thereof, and the black toner has a colorimetric value L* of about less than 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Scheuer, Mark Petrush, James Winters, John Ianni, Julia Kohlmeier, William Hollenbaugh, Jr., Kip Jugle, Jeffrey McEwen
  • Publication number: 20120189952
    Abstract: An electrophotographic toner and a process for preparing the same. The electrophotographic toner includes a binder, a coloring agent, and a release agent. The binder includes two resins having different weight average molecular weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co.,
    Inventors: Jy-yeon Lee, Jun-Young Lee, Kyeong Pang, Tae-Hoe Koo, Su-bum Park
  • Patent number: 8206878
    Abstract: A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and toner particles obtained by surface-modifying toner mother particles made of a material containing a rosin resin with a polyalkyleneimine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ueno, Masahiro Oki
  • Patent number: 8202676
    Abstract: A toner for developing electrostatic latent images, including a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner further includes propyleneglycolmonomethylether in an amount of from 30 to 200 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Kumi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20120148947
    Abstract: Disclosed is a developer including at least a toner for developing electrostatic latent images. The toner includes toner base particles each containing at least one binder resin, and external additives for adhering to the outer surfaces of the toner base particles. The toner has a first triboelectric charge obtained by blow-off charge measurement at 20% relative humidity and a temperature of 10° C., and a second triboelectric charge obtained by blow-off charge measurement at 80% relative humidity and a temperature of 28° C. An absolute value of the difference between the first and second triboelectric charges is no larger than 20 ?C/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: OKI DATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20120141932
    Abstract: A method for producing a developer, the method includes aggregating first fine particles and second fine particles in a dispersion liquid, said dispersion liquid containing the first fine particles which contain at least a binder resin, and the second fine particles which contain a coloring compound, a color developer and a decolorizing agent and have been subjected to a master batch treatment; and forming aggregate particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8192907
    Abstract: A toner including toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin is a vinyl-based resin. The toner contains a THF insoluble matter in a quantity of 0.0 mass % or more to less than 16.0 mass %. The toner has a main peak in a molecular weight domain Dr1 ranging from 5,000 to 80,000 in measurement of THF soluble matter of the toner with a gel permeation chromatogram (GPC)-differential refractive index detector (RI), and the toner has a main peak in a molecular weight domain Dm1 ranging from 10,000 to 120,000 and at least one peak in a molecular weight domain Dm2 ranging from 300,000 to 7,000,000 in the GPC-RI measurement in measurement with a GPC-multi-angle laser light scattering detector (MALLS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Abe, Shinya Yachi, Satoshi Handa, Kazumi Yoshizaki, Emi Tosaka, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Nobuhisa Abe, Yushi Mikuriya
  • Publication number: 20120135345
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a developer includes a toner which contains toner particles containing a binder resin and a coloring agent and also contains inorganic fine particles added to the surfaces of the toner particles, and is obtained through sieving after adding the inorganic fine particles to the toner particles, wherein a first adhesion force Fa1 (%) of the inorganic fine particles to the toner particles before sieving and a second adhesion force Fa2 (%) of the inorganic fine particles to the toner particles after sieving satisfy the following formulae (1) and (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Urabe
  • Publication number: 20120129091
    Abstract: To provide an apparatus for producing a toner, including: a droplet forming unit configured to periodically discharge a toner composition liquid, which includes at least a resin and a colorant, from a plurality of nozzles so as to form droplets; a gas flow forming unit configured to form a gas flow which passes through a narrowed portion that corresponds to a nozzle formation area and that is placed on a downstream side of the nozzles with respect to a droplet discharge direction, and which advances in the droplet discharge direction; and a particle forming unit configured to form toner particles by solidifying the droplets of the toner composition liquid passed through the narrowed portion and then discharged, wherein the opening area of an opening which forms the narrowed portion decreases from an inlet side of the narrowed portion toward an outlet side of the narrowed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Kenta Kenjoh, Tetsuya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120122027
    Abstract: To provide a toner, containing: a binder resin; a crystalline polyester resin; a colorant; and wax, wherein the toner has a fluidized powder characteristic value of 35% to 45%, and a BET specific surface area of 2.8 m2/g to 4 m2/g, and wherein the toner has an intensity ratio P2850/P828 of 0.10 to 0.20, where P2850 is an intensity of a peak at 2850 cm?1 which is attributed from the wax and the crystalline polyester resin, and P828 is an intensity of a peak at 828 cm?1 which is attributed from the binder resin, as measured by total reflectance infrared spectroscopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Naohiro WATANABE, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Shlnya Hanatanl, Mamru Hozumi, Osamu Uchinokura
  • Publication number: 20120122026
    Abstract: A developer for electrostatic photography, includes: a toner containing toner particles containing a colorant and a binder resin, and an external additive having a number average particle diameter of about 100 nm or more and about 800 nm or less; and rugged particles having a rate of ruggedness represented by formula (1) of about 30% or more and about 70% or less: Rate of Ruggedness=100?(Projected area/Envelope area)×100??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya TAGUCHI, Hirokazu HAMANO, Masahiro TAKAGI, Tsuyoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 8173345
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide a toner superior in shelf stability, not giving off an offensive odor and degrading the surrounding environment when used for printing, and superior in durability at the time of use for continuous printing under high temperature, high humidity conditions. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A process of production of a toner containing colored polymer particles obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer composition containing a polymerizable monomer and colorant in an aqueous medium in the presence of a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerization initiator is an organic peroxide having a molecular weight of 205 or less, and a purity of 90% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Zeon Corporation
    Inventor: Keita Sensui
  • Patent number: 8163455
    Abstract: Provided is a toner for image formation, granulated by dispersing, emulsifying, or both dispersing and emulsifying an oil phase containing toner constituting materials in an aqueous medium. The toner constituting materials contain a binder resin, a colorant and a pigment dispersant which is a polyester derivative having an acid value of 28 to 50 mgKOH/g and an amine value of 1 to 50 mgKOH/g, and satisfy the following Expressions 1 and 2, where Expression 1 represents a mass ratio, ? is a glass transition temperature of the binder resin, and ? is a glass transition temperature of a mixture of the binder resin and the pigment dispersant in the ratio of Expression 1. Binder resin:Pigment dispersant=100:5??Expression 1 0° C.?????10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Shinichi Wakamatsu, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8163454
    Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition for toners, which contains a resin (D) obtained by reacting a styrene polymer (A) containing an active hydrogen group and having a peak molecular weight (Mp) of not less than 30,000 but not more than 2,000,000, a styrene polymer (B) containing a carboxyl group and having a peak molecular weight (Mp) of not less than 2,000 but not more than 20,000, and a crosslinkable compound (C) having an isocyanate group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Linwood Blanton Muire, III, Hiroyuki Takei, Yuji Emura, Kouichi Shiina