Identified Toner Colorant (e.g., Dye, Pigment, Etc.) Patents (Class 430/123.57)
  • Patent number: 8940468
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for production of a decolorable toner, including: aggregating dispersed fine particles of a color material comprising at least a color-forming compound, a color-developing agent and a decoloring agent with dispersed fine particles comprising at least a binder resin comprising a polyester resin to form aggregates in an aqueous medium, adding a reactive polymer having an oxazoline group in to the aqueous medium, and fusing the aggregates in the aqueous medium. As a result, it becomes possible to produce a decolorable toner which suppresses the generation of fine powder due to the release of fine particles of an erasable color material from the toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayasu Aoki, Takafumi Hara, Tsuyoshi Itou, Masahiro Ikuta, Motonari Udo, Koji Shimokusa, Hiroshi Mizuhata
  • Patent number: 8932788
    Abstract: The present invention provides a toner containing at least a binder resin and a pigment, wherein the amount of the pigment in the toner is 3.0% by mass to 8.5% by mass, the volume average particle diameter of the toner is 2.0 ?m to 6.0 ?m, and a monochrome image, which has been fixed on a recording medium so that the amount of the toner adhered onto the recording medium is 0.25 mg/cm2, has a reflection density of 1.2 to 2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Wakamatsu, Hiroshi Yamashita, Naohiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 8865388
    Abstract: Disclosed is an decolorizable electrophotographic toner, containing a binder resin, an electron-donating color-developable agent, and a wax having a color-developing action and having an acid value of 60 mgKOH/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayasu Aoki, Takahito Kabai, Tsuyoshi Itou
  • Publication number: 20140193751
    Abstract: Provided is a toner set including a brilliant toner containing a brilliant pigment and at least one kind of color toner containing a colorant, in which a ratio (G? A/G?B) of G?A to G?B satisfies a relationship of 1?G?A/G?B?10, when a storage modulus in 120° C. of the brilliant toner is G?A and a storage modulus in 120° C. of the color toner is G?B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGITATE, Masaru TAKAHASHI, Shotaro TAKAHASHI, Sakiko HIRAI, Shuji SATO
  • Patent number: 8728689
    Abstract: Provided are a toner containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, the toner having a specific hue angle and an absorbance at a specific wavelength in reflectance spectrophotometry, and a full-color image-forming method involving the use of the toner, the method including the steps of: forming an electrostatic image on a charged electrostatic image bearing member; developing the formed electrostatic image with the toner to form a toner image; transferring the formed toner image onto a transfer material; and fixing the transferred toner image to the transfer material to form a fixed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasukazu Ayaki, Shigeto Tamura
  • Patent number: 8728696
    Abstract: A toner including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent is provided. The toner has a peak loss tangent (tan ?) value of 3 or more within a temperature range of 80 to 160° C. Here, the loss tangent (tan ?) is a ratio (G?/G?) of a loss elastic modulus (G?) to a storage elastic modulus (G?). The toner provides a good combination of low-temperature fixability, hot offset resistance, storage stability, coloring power and/or opacifying power, and gloss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Saori Yamada, Mitsuo Aoki, Hisashi Nakajima, Masashi Nagayama, Shigenori Yaguchi
  • Publication number: 20130157191
    Abstract: The present invention provides a toner for electrophotography capable of achieving high color reproducibility in a wide brightness region ranging from high to low brightness. This toner for electrophotography containing a compound represented by general formula (X-1) is characterized in that when the toner image formed exclusively from the toner is at maximum saturation, the hue angle (H) of the toner in a CIE L*a*b* color space is within the range of 341°?H?351°. [Formula 1] (In the formula: one of Rx1 and Rx2 is a methyl group or an ethyl group, while the other represents an alkyl group with C12 or less optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom, or a 5- or 6-membered aliphatic ring optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom connecting a nitrogen atom and Rx1 and Rx2; and GX2 represents an alkyl group optionally substituted by a group including an oxygen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLAT BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Ookubo, Ryohei Iwamoto, Keigo Tamaki, Yutaro Hakoi
  • Patent number: 8431295
    Abstract: Disclosed are a toner for developing an electrostatic image, a full color toner kit and an image formation method, the toner containing at least a resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises a quinacridone pigment having a number average primary particle size of from 30 to 150 nm and having a ratio of a major axis direction length to a minor axis direction length of from 1.0 to 2.0 and Pigment Red 238.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Kaori Soeda
  • Patent number: 8313879
    Abstract: A full-color toner set including a yellow component, a cyan component, and a magenta component, wherein in each of the color components, resin fine particles are added to a surface of base particles. Further, the yellow component may include a monoazo pigment serving as a colorant in the base particles. In addition, the following formulae (1) and (2) may be satisfied, where the amount of addition of the resin fine particles based on 100 parts by mass of base particles in the yellow component is represented by Wy, the amount of addition of the resin fine particles based on 100 parts by mass of base particles in the cyan component is represented by Wc, and the amount of addition of the resin fine particles based on 100 parts by mass of base particles in the magenta component is represented by Wm, Wy>Wc??(1) Wy>Wm??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Koji Kuramashi
  • Patent number: 8313878
    Abstract: A toner set has toners used in an image forming method by forming a toner image with toners of several colors and fixing the toner image onto a recording medium. The toners include first and second toners of different colors. The first and second toners contain toner base particles including a binding resin, a colorant and a wax. The colorant of the first toner contains a quinacridone pigment. The wax includes a carnauba wax and a wax other than the carnauba wax. The base particles of the first toner have a mass % Wq1 of carnauba wax and Wo1 of the other wax and the base particles of the second toner have a mass % Wq2 of carnauba wax and Wo2 of the other wax. These mass % values are selected to satisfy the following: Wq1/(Wq1+Wq2)<Wo1/(Wo1+Wo2) 3?Wo1+Wo2<Wq1+Wq2?10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Kuramashi
  • Patent number: 8241827
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner which is capable of obtaining highly chromatic full-color images of bright color without causing perceived color contamination and exhibits superior lightfastness is disclosed, wherein the toner comprises a binding resin and a colorant, and the colorant is tetraazaporphyrin or phthalocyanine compounds such as a compound represented by the following formula:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Mikio Kouyama, Kenji Hayashi, Tomoko Sakimura, Hiroaki Obata, Natsuko Kusaka
  • Patent number: 8241826
    Abstract: Disclosed is a full-color image forming method by which an image exhibiting comfortable image quality reliably suitable for a human visual system can be obtained in such a way that a halftone image exhibiting excellent granularity and evenness thereof is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiro Hirano, Mikio Kouyama, Kenji Hayashi, Hiroyuki Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 8236472
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming an image with a set of electrostatic charge image developing toners using a digital electrophotographic method, provided that the set of electrostatic charge image developing toners comprises a black toner and a light gray toner, the method comprising the steps of: forming an electrostatic latent image on an image support; developing the electrostatic latent image with the black toner to form a black toner image; developing the electrostatic latent image with the light gray toner to form a light gray toner image; and fixing the black toner image and the light gray toner image, wherein the black toner and the light gray toner each independently contains a wax having an endothermic peak in the range of 60 to 105° C.; and the light gray toner has a transmittance in the range of 40 to 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujisaki, Kaori Soeda, Shinya Obara, Natsuko Kusaka
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8187782
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process of forming a full color image according to electrophotography, employing a yellow toner, a magenta toner and a cyan colorant, the process comprising the step of forming a yellow toner image, a magenta toner image and a cyan toner image on a recording material, wherein the yellow toner image has reflectance (in terms of %) satisfying formulas (11) through (14) below, the magenta toner image has reflectance (in terms of %) satisfying formulas (21) through (24) below, and the cyan toner image has reflectance (in terms of %) satisfying formulas (31) through (34) below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujisaki, Mikio Kouyama, Kenji Hayashi, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Natsuko Kusaka
  • Patent number: 8114562
    Abstract: A two-component developer containing a yellow toner and a magnetic carrier, wherein the yellow toner has the characteristics: (i) when the concentration of the yellow toner in a solution of the yellow toner in chloroform is represented by Cy (mg/ml) and the absorbance of the solution at a wavelength of 422 nm is represented by A422, a relationship between Cy and A422 satisfies the relationship of 6.00<A422/Cy<14.40; (ii) the lightness L* and chroma C* of the yellow toner determined in a powder state satisfy the relationships of 85.0?L*?95.0 and 100.0?C*?115.0; and (iii) the absolute value for the triboelectric charge quantity of the yellow toner measured by a two-component method using the yellow toner and the magnetic carrier is 50 mC/kg or more and 120 mC/kg or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koh Ishigami, Kazuo Terauchi, Noriyoshi Umeda, Tetsuya Ida, Naoki Okamoto, Yojiro Hotta, Yoshinobu Baba, Takayuki Itakura, Takeshi Yamamoto, Manami Haraguchi, Kenta Kubo
  • Patent number: 8092964
    Abstract: Disclosed is a toner comprising a resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises a compound represented by formula (I) and a compound represented by formula (II).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Hayashi, Mikio Kouyama, Tomoko Sakimura, Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Hiroaki Obata, Natsuko Kusaka
  • Patent number: 7906262
    Abstract: A two-component developer containing a cyan toner and a magnetic carrier, wherein the cyan toner has the characteristics: (i) when the concentration of the cyan toner in a solution of the cyan toner in chloroform is represented by Cc (mg/ml) and the absorbance of the solution at a wavelength of 712 nm is represented by A712, a relationship between Cc and A712 satisfies the relationship of 2.00<A712/Cc<8.15; (ii) the lightness L* and chroma C* of the cyan toner determined in a powder state satisfy the relationships of 25.0?L*?40.0 and 50.0?C*?60.0; and (iii) the absolute value for the triboelectric charge quantity of the cyan toner measured by a two-component method using the cyan toner and the magnetic carrier is 50 mC/kg or more and 120 mC/kg or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koh Ishigami, Kazuo Terauchi, Noriyoshi Umeda, Tetsuya Ida, Naoki Okamoto, Yojiro Hotta, Yoshinobu Baba, Takayuki Itakura, Takeshi Yamamoto, Manami Haraguchi, Kenta Kubo
  • Publication number: 20110053072
    Abstract: A toner set has toners used in an image forming method by forming a toner image with toners of several colors and fixing the toner image onto a recording medium. The toners include first and second toners of different colors. The first and second toners contain toner base particles including a binding resin, a colorant and a wax. The colorant of the first toner contains a quinacridone pigment. The wax includes a carnauba wax and a wax other than the carnauba wax. The base particles of the first toner have a mass % Wq1 of carnauba wax and Wo1 of the other wax and the base particles of the second toner have a mass % Wq2 of carnauba wax and Wo2 of the other wax. These mass % values are selected to satisfy the following: Wq1/(Wq1+Wq2)<Wo1/(Wo1+Wo2) 3?Wo1+Wo2<Wq1+Wq2?10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Kuramashi
  • Publication number: 20110008720
    Abstract: Disclosed are a toner for developing an electrostatic image, a full color toner kit and an image formation method, the toner containing at least a resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises a quinacridone pigment having a number average primary particle size of from 30 to 150 nm and having a ratio of a major axis direction length to a minor axis direction length of from 1.0 to 2.0 and Pigment Red 238.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YASUKAWA, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI, Kaori SOEDA
  • Patent number: 7759035
    Abstract: An object is to provide an electrostatic charge image developing toner and an image forming method using the same capable of maintaining image properties for a long duration, which exhibit not only sufficient transparency and chromaticness, accompanied with high color reproduction and excellent charging characteristic, but also excellent heat resistance, together further with excellent light fastness and sufficient image holding ability. Disclosed is an electrostatic charge image developing toner of the present invention comprising a binder resin for toner particle formation and colorant particles dispersed in the binder resin, wherein the colorant particles comprise a dye and an antioxidant. Further, the electrostatic charge image developing toner wherein a volume-based median particle diameter of the colorant particles is preferably 10-100 nm, and also the dye contained in the colorant particles is preferably an oil-soluble dye or a metal chelate dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Ninomiya, Mikio Kouyama, Takato Chiba, Kenji Hayashi, Hiroyuki Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20090123857
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the latent electrostatic image bearing member, at least three developing units each configured to develop the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image on a recording medium, and an image fixing unit configured to the transferred image on the recording medium, in which the developing units respectively include any one of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, the magenta toner includes C.I. pigment red 269, and the yellow toner includes C.I pigment yellow 180 or C.I pigment yellow 155.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Hyo SHU, Mitsuo Aoki, Minoru Masuda, Kumi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 7374847
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner contains an amount of not less than 0.1% by weight of an element selected from elements of the Groups of 1B, 2B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8, 3A and 4A of the fourth and fifth periodic of the long periodic table of the elements, and the isolation ratio of the element is not more than 10% by number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tomomi Oshiba, Ken Ohmura, Shigenori Kouno, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7303847
    Abstract: A dry toner is provided that is prepared by a method including the steps of (A) dissolving or dispersing a toner composition in an organic solvent to prepare a toner composition liquid and (B) dispersing the toner composition liquid in an aqueous liquid which contains a binder resin formed of a modified polyester (i) and a colorant containing a carbon black having a pH not greater than 7, wherein the toner has a volume average particle diameter (Dv) is from 3 to 7 ?m and a ratio of the volume average particle diameter (Dv) to a number average particle diameter (Dp) is from 1.00 to 1.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventors: Masami Tomita, Toshiki Nanya, Shigeru Emoto, Shinichiro Yagi, Hiroshi Yamada, Naohiro Watanabe, Tadao Takigawa
  • Patent number: 7276319
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic latent image development includes a coloring agent and a resin wherein the toner is formed by a polymerization method and a content of aromatic amine contained in the toner is 50 ppm or less, and a volume average particle size of the toner is 3 to 8 ?m; and an image forming method employs the same toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Naohiro Hirose, Asao Matsushima, Shiro Hirano, Hiroshi Yamazaki