Toner Particle Size Patents (Class 430/118.8)
  • Publication number: 20150010860
    Abstract: Toner for electrostatic development in accordance with one aspect of the present invention contains toner base particles produced by subjecting a toner composition containing binder resin, a coloring agent, and wax to melting and kneading and thereafter pulverization and classification, the toner having a volume median particle diameter (D50) of 5.5 to 7.5 ?m, and the toner having particle size distribution in which the toner base particles include 15 to 55% by number of toner base particles of not more than 5 ?m in particle diameter, and include not more than 1.5% by number of toner particles of more than 10 ?m in particle diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiharu Kataoka, Yasuo Imura
  • Patent number: 8741524
    Abstract: A toner containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner has a core-shell structure composed of a core, and a shell having a thickness of 0.01 ?m to 2 ?m on a surface of the core, and wherein the toner satisfies the following relation: 1.1?ST/CT?2.0 where ST is a softening temperature of the shell, and CT is a softening temperature of the core, both measured by a SPM probe with an integrated heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8722291
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer including a first toner that contains a binder resin and a brilliant pigment, a second toner that contains a binder resin without a brilliant pigment, and a carrier, wherein the developer satisfies the following formulae, 5 ?m?A?30 ?m??(1): 1 ?m?B?15 ?m??(2): 3.0?C/A?5.0??(3): 5.0?C/B?20.0??(4): wherein A represents a volume average particle size of the first toner, B represents a volume average particle size of the second toner, and C represents a volume average particle size of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugitate, Masaru Takahashi, Shotaro Takahashi
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8263303
    Abstract: A method for producing a colored resin particle dispersion liquid comprises: polycondensing a polyester-forming monomer in a nonaqueous solvent to produce an unsaturated polyester; graft-polymerizing an ethylenic unsaturated monomer to the unsaturated polyester in a nonaqueous solvent to produce a modified polyester resin; and dispersing a colorant and the modified polyester resin to produce a colored resin particle dispersion liquid, the polycondensing and the graft-polymerizing being carried out at a temperature of 150° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Matsuoka, Yuki Sasaki, Satoshi Hiraoka, Fumiaki Mera, Yasuo Matsumura
  • Patent number: 8101331
    Abstract: A process for making particles is provided. In embodiments, a suitable process includes a mixing tank for mixing a plurality of particles dispersed within a liquid media and a vane unit for applying a swirling effect to the plurality of droplets received from the mixing tank through a spray nozzle. The vane unit is in operable communication with a spray nozzle for launching a plurality of droplets, the plurality of droplets including different combinations of the plurality of particles. The process further includes a plurality of outlet ports, where each of a first set of outlet ports includes a filter and of the other outlet port is filterless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Fa-Gung Fan, Steven M. Malachowski, Yuhua Tong, Chieh-Min Cheng, Pinyen Lin
  • Patent number: 8080357
    Abstract: When being blended particularly in a color toner, a barium titanate external additive for toner enhances the toner fluidity, electrical properties, and other relevant performance; concurrently achieves high image density and reduced background fog in a color printer using the toner; and further retains high image quality even under a high-temperature high-humidity environment and a low-temperature low-humidity environment. An industrially advantageous producing method of the barium titanate external additive for toner is also provided. The external additive for toner of the present invention includes spherical barium titanate having undergone coating treatment with a hydrophobicizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Ochiai, Shinji Tanabe, Naoaki Narishige
  • Patent number: 8034527
    Abstract: The method of making nano-sized particles for use in making emulsion aggregation toner particles, the nano-sized particles having a core portion and a shell portion, wherein the core portion of the nano-sized particles includes crystalline resin and the shell portion includes amorphous resin and is substantially to completely free of the crystalline resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Guerino G. Sacripante
  • Patent number: 8029960
    Abstract: A toner, including a parent particulate material including a colorant and a binder resin, and an external additive including particles having an average primary particle diameter from 80 to less than 150 nm in an amount of from 0.03 to 2% by number, particles having an average primary particle diameter from 5 nm to less than 15 nm in an amount of from 50 to 95% by number, and particles having an average primary particle diameter from 15 to less than 40 nm in an amount of from 5 to 40% by number, and the particles having an average primary particle diameter from 80 to less than 150 nm include particles having an average primary particle diameter not less than 200 nm in an amount of from 10 to 30% by number, and have a weight reduction rate not greater than 3.00% when heated from 30 to 250° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventors: Tsuneyasu Nagatomo, Naohiro Watanabe, Osamu Uchinokura, Satoshi Kojima