Chemically Identified Elemental Magnetic Metal Or Magnetic Alloy Carrier Patents (Class 430/111.34)
  • Patent number: 9093691
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUAN
    Inventors: Chang-Sing Hwang, Chun-Huang Tsai, Jen-Feng Yu, Chun-Liang Chang, Jun-Meng Lin, Shih-Wei Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150044607
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Takeshi Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 8945805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Naoki Okamoto, Tomoko Endo
  • Patent number: 8921023
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Masayuki Hama, Kentaro Kamae, Hiroaki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8895218
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Toru Iwata, Koji Aga
  • Patent number: 8828638
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihito Fukushima, Manabu Serizawa, Katsuyuki Kitajima
  • Patent number: 8679719
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimitoshi Yamaguchi, Naoki Imahashi, Kousuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140017609
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: DOWA IP CREATION CO., LTD., DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawauchi, Tomohide IIda
  • Patent number: 8628905
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Powdertech Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Itagoshi, Tomoyuki Suwa, Toshio Honjo
  • Patent number: 8409778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Wada, Tadashi Iwamatsu, Takanori Kamoto, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Natsuki Matsuura, Nobuhiro Seki, Masatomo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8357480
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanori Kamoto
  • Publication number: 20130011781
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicants: DOWA IP CREATION CO., LTD., DOWA ELECTRONICS MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawauchi, Sho Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8298742
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Okamoto, Yoshinobu Baba, Koh Ishigami, Tomoko Endo
  • Patent number: 8227163
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. N. Veregin, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy
  • Publication number: 20110236815
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard P.N. Veregin, Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy
  • Patent number: 8026033
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Takao Sugiura, Kanao Kayamoto
  • Publication number: 20110097662
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Suxia Yang, Richard P.N. Veregin, Karen Ann Moffat
  • Publication number: 20110070540
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daryl W. Vanbesien, Michael S. Hawkins, Corey L. Tracy, Richard P.N. Veregin, Karen Ann Moffat, Biby Esther Abraham
  • Patent number: 7879522
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Aga, Issei Shinmura, Tetsuya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20100248112
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihito FUKUSHIMA, Manabu SERIZAWA, Katsuyuki KITAJIMA
  • Patent number: 7736827
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Limited, Shinko-Frex Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Morii, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Takeshi Sugimoto, Kazuma Torii
  • Publication number: 20090197194
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Aga, Issei Shinmura, Tetsuya Igarashi
  • Patent number: 7553597
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Powdertech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Kobayashi, Issei Shinmura, Tsuyoshi Itagoshi, Yuji Sato
  • Publication number: 20080227004
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Kimitoshi YAMAGUCHI, Naoki Imahashi, Kousuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7172846
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Yamashita, Tomio Kondou, Kohsuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6864031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito
  • Publication number: 20040142267
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushika Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito
  • Publication number: 20030104303
    Abstract: Carrier comprised of a core, a number of the pores thereof containing a polymer, and thereover a coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Hadi K. Mahabadi, Enno E. Agur, Thomas E. Enright, John A. Creatura, Mary L. Ott, K. Derek Henderson, Paul J. Gerroir
  • Patent number: 6528225
    Abstract: Carrier comprised of a core, a number of the pores thereof containing a polymer, and thereover a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Hadi K. Mahabadi, Enno E. Agur, Thomas E. Enright, John A. Creatura, Mary L. Ott, K. Derek Henderson, Paul J. Gerroir
  • Patent number: 6464797
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunitoshi Sugiyama, Yoshihiko Itoh, Hideyuki Santoh, Kunio Arai, Tadafumi Ajiri
  • Publication number: 20020119387
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ishida, Tatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito