Chemically Identified Elemental Magnetic Metal Or Magnetic Alloy Carrier Patents (Class 430/111.34)
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Patent number: 9093691Abstract: The disclosure provides a porous metal substrate structure with high gas permeability and redox stability for a SOFC and the fabrication process thereof, the porous metal substrate structure comprising: a porous metal plate composed of first metal particles; and a porous metal film composed of second metal particles and formed on the porous metal plate; wherein the porous metal plate has a thickness more than the porous metal film, and the first metal particle has a size more than the second metal particle. Further, a porous shell containing Fe is formed on the surface of each metal particle by impregnating a solution containing Fe in a high temperature sintering process of reducing or vacuum atmosphere, and the oxidation and reduction processes. The substrate uses the porous shells containing Fe particles to absorb the leakage oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUANInventors: Chang-Sing Hwang, Chun-Huang Tsai, Jen-Feng Yu, Chun-Liang Chang, Jun-Meng Lin, Shih-Wei Cheng
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Publication number: 20150044607Abstract: A method for manufacturing carrier core particles for electrophotographic developer that include manganese, magnesium, and iron as a core composition. The method includes a granulation step (A) of granulating a mixture of raw materials containing manganese, magnesium, and iron with a reducing agent added at a ratio of 0.10% to 1.00% by mass to a total mass of the raw materials containing manganese, magnesium, and iron, and a firing step of firing the granular material granulated in the granulation step. The firing step includes a first heating step (C) of applying heat at a constant temperature ranging from 500° C. to 800° C. in an atmosphere with an oxygen concentration of 1000 ppm to 15000 ppm for a predetermined period of time and a second heating step (D) of applying heat at a temperature higher than 800° C. for a predetermined period of time after the first heating step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Inventor: Takeshi Kawauchi
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Patent number: 8945805Abstract: The present invention provides an image of high image quality by using a magnetic carrier coated with a novel coating resin composition. Further, the present invention stably provides a good image which is hardly influenced by environmental fluctuation and long-term use and has a superior stability of a charging amount when left to stand especially under high temperature and high humidity environments. The present invention also provides a magnetic carrier characterized in that a carrier core surface is coated with a copolymer containing at least, as copolymerization components, an acrylic monomer having a specific structure and an acrylic macromonomer having a specific structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Naoki Okamoto, Tomoko Endo
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Patent number: 8921023Abstract: Provided is a magnetic carrier excellent in leakage, uniformity of a solid image having satisfactory charging stability and developing performance at low electric field. The magnetic carrier is a magnetic carrier comprising: a magnetic substance-dispersed resin carrier core, which contains a magnetic substance and a binding resin, and a coating resin on a surface thereof, wherein: the carrier core has resistivity at 1000 V/cm of 5.0×106-8.0×107 ?·cm, the magnetic substance has a number average particle diameter of 0.20-0.35 ?m; and comprises magnetic-substance particles having vertexes and a particle diameter of 0.53 ?m or more in an amount of 10.0-32.0 vol % based on a total amount of the magnetic substance; and wherein: the carrier core has Fe2O3 content of 98.00% by mass or more; and ZnO content of 0.06-0.50% by mass.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Masayuki Hama, Kentaro Kamae, Hiroaki Kawakami
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Patent number: 8895218Abstract: Employment of a carrier core material for an electrophotographic developer containing 0.8 to 5% by weight of Mg, 0.1 to 1.5% by weight of Ti, 60 to 70% by weight of Fe and 0.2 to 2.5% by weight of Sr and having an amount of Sr dissolved with a pH4 standard solution of 80 to 1000 ppm, a carrier using the core material and a process for producing them, and an electrophotographic developer using the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Toru Iwata, Koji Aga
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Patent number: 8828638Abstract: A two-component developer including a yellow toner and a carrier, the yellow toner including at least one of C. I. Pigment Yellow 155 or C. I. Pigment Yellow 185, and an azo pigment, the carrier including a first resin, magnetic particles dispersed in the first resin, and elements of Cu, Zn, Ni and Mn each in an amount of from 0 to about 2,000 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norihito Fukushima, Manabu Serizawa, Katsuyuki Kitajima
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Patent number: 8679719Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carrier containing core material particles having magnetism and a coating layer on the surfaces of the core material particles, wherein the core material particles have a magnetization at a magnetic field of 1,000 Oersted of 40 emu/g to 100 emu/g, and the carrier has a weight average particle diameter of 20 ?m to 45 ?m, a resistance (Log R) of 11 ?·cm to 17 ?·cm and a relaxation time ? of 150 seconds to 800 seconds.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kimitoshi Yamaguchi, Naoki Imahashi, Kousuke Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140017609Abstract: A method for manufacturing carrier core particles for electrophotographic developer including a slurrying step (A) of making an iron-containing raw material and a strontium-containing raw material into slurry, a granulation step (B) of granulating the slurry mixture obtained in the slurrying step, and a firing step (C) of firing a powdery material, which is obtained by granulating the slurry mixture in the granulation step, at a predetermined temperature to form a magnetic phase. The slurrying step makes the iron-containing raw material into the slurry containing the iron-containing raw material having a volume diameter D50 of 1.0 to 4.0 ?m and a volume diameter D90 of 2.5 to 7.0 ?m, and makes the strontium-containing raw material into the slurry so that the carrier core particles for electrophotographic developer contain 0?y?5000 ppm, where y denotes the content of the strontium in the carrier core particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicants: DOWA IP CREATION CO., LTD., DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Kawauchi, Tomohide IIda
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Patent number: 8628905Abstract: A ferrite core material for a resin-filled type carrier, and a resin-filled type carrier which is used as an electrophotographic developer by mixing a toner, sufficiently secure the image density, have no carrier adhesion and can maintain high-quality images over a long period, and an electrophotographic developer using the carrier, are provided. A ferrite core material for a resin-filled type carrier characterized in a void fraction of 10 to 60%, a resin-filled type carrier filled in the carrier core material with a resin, and an electrophotographic developer composed of the resin-filled type carrier and a toner, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Powdertech Co. Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Itagoshi, Tomoyuki Suwa, Toshio Honjo
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Patent number: 8409778Abstract: A resin coated carrier is provided that can stably charge a toner having added thereto an external additive having a large particle size over a long period of time and can prevent blocking of a developer. The resin coated carrier satisfies the following formula (1): log(Mb/Ma)>2??(1) in which Ma is a weight average molecular weight of a silicone resin having the minimum weight average molecular weight, contained in a resin coating layer, and Mb is a weight average molecular weight of a silicone resin having the maximum weight average molecular weight, and the following formula (2) is satisfied: 0.5??log(A/B)?2.5??(2) in which A is a volume resistance (?/cm) under electric field of 1,000 V/cm obtained by conducting a stirring test, and B is a volume resistance (?/cm) under electric field of 1,000 V/cm before the stirring test.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Wada, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Takanori Kamoto, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Natsuki Matsuura, Nobuhiro Seki, Masatomo Hayashi
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Patent number: 8357480Abstract: There are provided a carrier which enables stable charging of toner and formation of a stable, high-definition and high-quality image which has very few image defects such as a fog, as well as a developer, a developing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. A carrier is obtained by including a carrier core and a coating layer with which a surface of the carrier core is coated, the coating layer being obtained by curing a resin composition for coating that includes a crosslinked silicone-modified acrylic resin containing a macromonomer represented by the following general formula (1). A developer is obtained by such a carrier and a toner.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takanori Kamoto
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Publication number: 20130011781Abstract: A carrier core particle for an electrophotographic developer includes a composition expressed by a general formula: MnxFe3?xO4+y (0<x?1, 0<y), a full width at half maximum z of the most intense peak (311) plane in a powder X-ray diffraction pattern satisfying 0.16 (degree)?z, and a magnetization of 50 emu/g or higher in an external magnetic field of 1000 Oe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicants: DOWA IP CREATION CO., LTD., DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Kawauchi, Sho Ogawa
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Patent number: 8298742Abstract: In a method for coating electrophotographic carrier core surfaces with a resin composition by rotating a rotator having a plurality of agitating blades on its surface in a casing; a coating treatment material that is introduced to a space defined between the rotator and the casing is in a packing of from 50% to 98% by volume; at the time of coating treatment, the electrophotographic carrier core surfaces are coat-treated with the resin composition while being put forward and put backward; and the electrophotographic carrier cores and the resin composition are, at the time of coating treatment, temperature-controlled at a specific temperature T (° C.) or below. This method enables the electrophotographic carrier core surfaces to be more uniformly coated with a coating resin.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Okamoto, Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Tomoko Endo
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Patent number: 8227163Abstract: The present disclosure provides carriers for use with toner compositions. In embodiments, a carrier may include a core having a polymeric coating on at least a portion thereof. The polymer coating possesses cation binding groups. Processes for coating such carriers with the polymeric coatings are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy
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Publication number: 20110236815Abstract: The present disclosure provides carriers for use with toner compositions. In embodiments, a carrier may include a core having a polymeric coating on at least a portion thereof. The polymer coating possesses cation binding groups. Processes for coating such carriers with the polymeric coatings are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Richard P.N. Veregin, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy
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Patent number: 8026033Abstract: Disclosed are a ferrite carrier for electrophotographic developer and an electrophotographic developer using the ferrite carrier, wherein: the ferrite carrier is a composite ferrite composed of Li and Mg; when the composition of the ferrite is calculated as a mixture of a Li ferrite having a stoichiometric composition and a Mg ferrite having a stoichiometric composition, the excessive amount of Fe2O3 is less than 5 mol %, or the total excessive amount of Li2O and MgO is less than 1 mol %; the content of the elements other than Li, Mg, Fe and O is 2 % by weight or less; and further, the content of Mn in terms of element is 1000 to 9000 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Takao Sugiura, Kanao Kayamoto
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Publication number: 20110097662Abstract: The present disclosure provides carriers for use with toner compositions. In embodiments, a carrier may include a core, having a dry powder polymer coating. The polymer coating possesses a carbon to oxygen from about 3:1 to about 8:1. In embodiments, the coating may also include a colorant, such as carbon black. Processes for coating such carriers with the dry powder polymer coatings are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Suxia Yang, Richard P.N. Veregin, Karen Ann Moffat
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Publication number: 20110070540Abstract: The present disclosure provides carriers for use with toner compositions. In embodiments, a carrier may include a core, having a dry powder polymer coating. In embodiments, the coating may also include a colorant, such as carbon black. Processes for coating such carriers with the dry powder polymer coatings are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy, Richard P.N. Veregin, Karen Ann Moffat, Biby Esther Abraham
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Patent number: 7879522Abstract: There are adopted: a carrier core material for an electrophotographic developer, including Mg, Ti and Fe as main components, and containing Fe, Mg and Ti in contents of 52 to 66% by weight, 3 to 12% by weight and 0.2 to 12% by weight, respectively; an electrophotographic developer carrier prepared by coating with a resin the surface of the carrier core material; and an electrophotographic developer using the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Aga, Issei Shinmura, Tetsuya Igarashi
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Publication number: 20100248112Abstract: A two-component developer including a yellow toner and a carrier, the yellow toner including at least one of C. I. Pigment Yellow 155 or C. I. Pigment Yellow 185, and an azo pigment, the carrier including a first resin, magnetic particles dispersed in the first resin, and elements of Cu, Zn, Ni and Mn each in an amount of from 0 to about 2,000 ppm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihito FUKUSHIMA, Manabu SERIZAWA, Katsuyuki KITAJIMA
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Patent number: 7736827Abstract: In a method for recycling a double component developer that contains a carrier and a toner used for an image forming device such as office automation equipment, an economic value of recycling is increased, thereby allowing a company to carry out an active and sustainable environmental activity. Material components of a carrier are completely utilized, so that a process of removing and disposing part of components of the carrier, which is present in the conventional technology of a carrier recycling, is omitted from a recycling system, and in consequence, a cost of recycling is minimized. Furthermore, as well as a subject of the recycling, i.e. a carrier itself, a more valuable material, i.e. a platinum group metal, is utilized for the recycling.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignees: Ricoh Company, Limited, Shinko-Frex Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiro Morii, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Takeshi Sugimoto, Kazuma Torii
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Publication number: 20090197194Abstract: There are adopted: a carrier core material for an electrophotographic developer, including Mg, Ti and Fe as main components, and containing Fe, Mg and Ti in contents of 52 to 66% by weight, 3 to 12% by weight and 0.2 to 12% by weight, respectively; an electrophotographic developer carrier prepared by coating with a resin the surface of the carrier core material; and an electrophotographic developer using the carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Aga, Issei Shinmura, Tetsuya Igarashi
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Patent number: 7553597Abstract: A carrier core material containing at least one metal oxide (MLO) having a melting point of not higher than 1000° C. and at least one metal oxide (MHO) having a melting point of not lower than 1800° C., wherein the metal (MH) for constituting the metal oxide (MHO) has an electrical resistivity of not less than 10?5 ?·cm. Also disclosed is a two-component developing agent comprising a coated carrier, which comprises the carrier core material coated with a resin, and toner particles. Further disclosed is an image forming method comprising developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive member with the two-component developing agent using an alternating electric field. The carrier core material and the coated carrier have high magnetization and are free from occurrence of leakage of electric charge over a wide range of electric field from low electric field to high electric field. According to the two-component developing agent, an excellent image can be formed.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Issei Shinmura, Tsuyoshi Itagoshi, Yuji Sato
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Publication number: 20080227004Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a carrier containing core material particles having magnetism and a coating layer on the surfaces of the core material particles, wherein the core material particles have a magnetization at a magnetic field of 1,000 Oersted of 40 emu/g to 100 emu/g, and the carrier has a weight average particle diameter of 20 ?m to 45 ?m, a resistance (LogR) of 11 ?·cm to 17 ?·cm and a relaxation time ? of 150 seconds to 800 seconds.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: Kimitoshi YAMAGUCHI, Naoki Imahashi, Kousuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 7172846Abstract: A carrier including a manganese ferrite core material having a layer on its surface such that 0.1?K?30, where K=(S/M)×100, S and M represent the standard deviation and average of M2/(M1+M2), respectively, M ranging from 0.05 to 0.45, and M1 and M2 represent the content of iron and manganese, respectively, in a carrier particle. The carrier has a magnetization ranging from 45 to 75 emu/g at 1,000 Oe, a mass-averaged particle diameter, D4, ranging from 25 to 65 ?m and carrier particles having a particle diameter not greater than 12 ?m are included in an amount not greater than 0.3% by weight, and a ratio, D4/D1, ranging from 1 to 1.3, where D1 is a number-averaged particle diameter of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Yamashita, Tomio Kondou, Kohsuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 6864031Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic developer which reduces toner contamination on the surface of a developer carrier even when a development effective range is narrowed and which is stabilized in an image quality in every environmental situation and has a long life and a low cost and an image-forming method using the same. In the present invention, used for the electrostatically charged-image holder described above having a radius of curvature of 18 mm or less in a development effective range is the electrophotographic developer which is a two-component developer comprising a toner comprising at least a binder and a colorant and a carrier which is coated with a resin and has a weight average particle diameter of 40 to 100 ?m, wherein the above toner has a volume average particle diameter of 8 to 11.5 ?m, and the toner particles having a diameter of 6.35 ?m or less account for 20 number % or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2004Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito
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Publication number: 20040142267Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic developer which reduces toner contamination on the surface of a developer carrier even when a development effective range is narrowed and which is stabilized in an image quality in every environmental situation and has a long life and a low cost and an image-forming method using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2004Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: Sharp Kabushika KaishaInventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito
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Publication number: 20030104303Abstract: Carrier comprised of a core, a number of the pores thereof containing a polymer, and thereover a coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Hadi K. Mahabadi, Enno E. Agur, Thomas E. Enright, John A. Creatura, Mary L. Ott, K. Derek Henderson, Paul J. Gerroir
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Patent number: 6528225Abstract: Carrier comprised of a core, a number of the pores thereof containing a polymer, and thereover a coating.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1998Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Hadi K. Mahabadi, Enno E. Agur, Thomas E. Enright, John A. Creatura, Mary L. Ott, K. Derek Henderson, Paul J. Gerroir
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Patent number: 6464797Abstract: A method for use in two-components electrostatic image developers is disclosed, in which secure separation of a carrier coating resinous materials from a core magnetic material is achieved without affecting the properties of the core materials through process steps benign to the environment in super- or sub-critical water compositions under the conditions of a temperature of 300° C. or more and a pressure of 20 MPa. The core magnetic material is subsequently recycled for forming carrier. This method may also be useful for processing waste including magnetic materials with silicone resin coating.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Yoshihiko Itoh, Hideyuki Santoh, Kunio Arai, Tadafumi Ajiri
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Publication number: 20020119387Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic developer which reduces toner contamination on the surface of a developer carrier even when a development effective range is narrowed and which is stabilized in an image quality in every environmental situation and has a long life and a low cost and an image-forming method using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2001Publication date: August 29, 2002Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito