Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080213682 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE TONER - Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic image, comprising particles of oil phase containing at least a toner composition and/or toner composition precursor in an aqueous medium, wherein the toner composition and/or toner composition precursor comprises an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral prepared by modifying at least partially an ion of a layered inorganic mineral into an organic ion, and the organic ion-modification ratio X satisfies the relation of 10009-04-2008 | |
20080227018 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING A LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE TONER - To provide a toner containing toner particles, wherein each toner particle contains at least: a releasing agent having an average dispersed particle diameter of 0.1 to 0.5 μm; and a modified layered inorganic mineral in which at least a part of ions present in between layers of a layered inorganic mineral is replaced with an organic ion, wherein the toner has a ratio A/B of 0.2 to 2.0 where A denotes the average dispersed particle diameter of the releasing agent and B denotes an average dispersed particle diameter of the modified layered inorganic mineral, or a proportion of the dispersed particles of the releasing agent having a diameter of 1 μm or more in the dispersed particles of the releasing agent having a diameter of 0.5 μm or more is 20% by number or less. | 09-18-2008 |
20080292361 | TONER USED FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of stably producing high quality images with time, without causing missing a central part of a thin line, however, with keeping an appropriate flowability of a toner. The toner used in the image forming apparatus is a toner which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a laminar inorganic mineral in which at least part of an ion in layers is modified with an organic ion, the toner is granulated in an aqueous system, the volume average particle diameter Dv of the toner is in the range of 3.0 μm11-27-2008 | |
20080311500 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE TONER - A toner including toner particles including a binder resin; a colorant, a release agent, and a modified layered inorganic material in which at least part of interlayer ions is modified with an organic ion, wherein the toner includes the release agent in an amount of from 3 to 6% by weight based on the total weight of the toner, and concentration of the modified layered inorganic material in a surface portion of the toner is greater than the average concentration thereof in the toner, and wherein the toner is subjected to FTIR-ATR, the ratio (P2850/P828) of the strength of the peak at 2850 cm | 12-18-2008 |
20090061345 | TONER - A toner including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent is provided. The difference in absorbance ratio between the toner heated for 1 minute in an atmosphere of 100° C. and the toner stored in an atmosphere of 23° C. is from 0.1 to 0.2. The absorbance ratio is a ratio of an absorbance specific to the release agent (such as at 2850 cm | 03-05-2009 |
20090117480 | TONER AND DEVELOPER, TONER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE SAME - To provide a toner containing an ethyl acetate-soluble polyester component and an ethyl acetate-insoluble polyester component, wherein the toner is granulated in an aqueous medium, the ethyl acetate-insoluble polyester component is obtained by elongating and/or cross-linking a modified polyester resin during granulating and/or after granulating, the modified polyester resin is produced by condensation polymerization of an acid component and at least one type of diol compound selected from aliphatic diol and alicyclic diol in the presence of a catalyst, and the mass average molecular weight of the modified polyester resin is 10,000 to 100,000. | 05-07-2009 |
20090142680 | FULL-COLOR IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A full-color image forming method, including:
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20090142682 | TONER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD - A toner including a binder resin, a coloring agent, a releasing agent and a modified laminar inorganic mineral, wherein the toner is granulated by dispersing the coloring agent, the releasing agent, the modified laminar inorganic mineral and at least one of the binder resin and a precursor thereof in an organic solvent to form an oil phase, dispersing the oil phase in an aqueous medium to obtain a dispersion emulsion and removing solvents therefrom, and the toner satisfies the following relationship (1): 0.2≦{1/Dv (μm)}×Sb (m | 06-04-2009 |
20090142690 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER - A method of manufacturing a toner including forming a wax liquid dispersion in which a wax is dispersed in an organic solvent (A1), mixing an organic layer including the wax liquid dispersion, a binder resin and an organic solvent (A) to form an oil phase and dispersing and emulsifying the oil phase in an aqueous medium to obtain an emulsified liquid dispersion, wherein the aspect ratio average of the wax in the wax liquid dispersion is from 0.3 to 0.7 and the toner includes toner particles satisfying the following relationship (1) in an amount of 20% by number or smaller based on all toner particles: 0.506-04-2009 | |
20090214975 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE TONER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE TONER - A toner prepared by a method including dissolving or dispersing at least at least one member selected from the group consisting of binder resins and precursors thereof, a colorant, a release agent, and a layered inorganic mineral in which ions between its layers are at least partially modified with an organic ion in an organic solvent to prepare a solution or a dispersion which is an oil phase; and dispersing the oil phase in an aqueous medium to prepare an emulsified dispersion in which parent toner particles are granulated, wherein the aqueous medium includes a tertiary amine compound. | 08-27-2009 |
20090280421 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER AND TONER - A method of manufacturing a toner including dispersing a binder resin, a coloring agent and a releasing agent in an organic solvent to obtain an oil phase; dispersing the oil phase in an aqueous medium with a shearing force to obtain a dispersion emulsion; wherein the shearing force is made by a screen or vessel that is situated around a rotor, the screen spinning in a direction opposite to the direction that the rotor spins. Toner produced. Method of using the toner. | 11-12-2009 |
20100129748 | TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE TONER - A toner satisfying at least one of the following relationships: | 05-27-2010 |
20100285402 | TONER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER - A toner is provided which includes a first binder resin, a second binder resin that is a reaction product of a compound having an active hydrogen group with a polymer reactive with the active hydrogen group, a colorant, and a release agent. The toner includes the second binder resin in an amount of from 6.4 to 40.9% by weight, and the reaction product includes organic-solvent-insoluble components in an amount of from 20 to 95% by weight. A method of manufacturing the toner is also provided. | 11-11-2010 |
20110033796 | METHOD OF PREPARING TONER AND TONER PREPARED THEREBY - A method of preparing a toner, including dissolving toner constituents including a binder resin or a binder resin precursor, a colorant and a release agent in an organic solvent to prepare a first liquid; emulsifying the first liquid in an aqueous medium to prepare a second liquid having a viscosity of from 50 to 800 mPa·sec; and at least flowing the second liquid almost vertically down along the wall surface of a pipe in which the air pressure is depressurized to 70 kPa or less twice while keeping a temperature of the second liquid not higher than a Tg of the parent particle through the wall surface thereof to volatilize the organic solvent, wherein a solid content of a slurry after volatilized is from 15 to 50%, and a ratio of the solid content to a solid content of a slurry before volatilized is from 1.05 to 2.00. | 02-10-2011 |
20110086308 | TONER, VESSEL WITH THE TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Toner and a developer which are excellent in cleaning property and fixing property at low temperature, and capable of forming images with high quality are provided, along with a method for their production. A toner producing method involves dispersing and/or emulsifying an oil phase or a monomer phase containing a toner composition and/or a toner composition precursor in a water-based medium to granulate, | 04-14-2011 |
20110223530 | TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND TONER CONTAINER - A toner is provided including a binder resin and a wax having primarily C—H and C—C bonds, and having a melting point of 50 to 90° C., wherein the wax is present in a surface portion of the toner in an amount of from 0.1 to 4.0% by weight, wherein the amount of the wax is determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR); and the use of the toner in an image forming method, image forming apparatus, developer and toner cartridge containing the toner. | 09-15-2011 |