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20130019656 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE ENGINE - A single-cylinder internal combustion engine includes a knock sensor mounted thereto to suppress a temperature increase of the knock sensor and at the same time detect knocking with high accuracy. The engine includes a cylinder block having a cylinder provided therein, and a cylinder head connected to the cylinder block. On a surface of the cylinder block and the cylinder head, one or more fins protruding from the surface are provided. On the surface of the cylinder block, a sensor mounting boss protruding from the surface and being continuous with a portion of the one or more fins is provided. A knock sensor arranged to detect knocking is mounted to the sensor mounting boss. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019657 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE ENGINE - In a single-cylinder internal combustion engine fitted with a knock sensor, a temperature increase of the knock sensor is suppressed and prevented and the reliability of the knock sensor is improved. The engine includes a crankcase accommodating a crankshaft, a cylinder block connected to the crankcase and including a cylinder provided therein, a cylinder head connected to the cylinder block, a sensor mounting boss provided on the cylinder block, a knock sensor arranged to detect knocking and mounted to the boss, a fan to guide air to at least the sensor mounting boss, and an air shroud. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019667 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE ENGINE - In a single-cylinder internal combustion engine fitted with a knock sensor, a temperature increase of the knock sensor is suppressed and prevented, and the reliability of the knock sensor is improved. The engine includes a crankcase, a cylinder block connected to the crankcase, a cylinder head connected to the cylinder block, a sensor mounting boss provided on the cylinder block, and a knock sensor mounted to the boss. Fins are provided on the cylinder block and the cylinder head. A heat insulation member is provided between the boss and the knock sensor. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024099 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND STRADDLE-TYPE VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE ENGINE - A single-cylinder internal combustion engine includes a knock sensor mounted to apart other than a cylinder block to detect knocking. The engine includes a crankcase, a cylinder block, and a cylinder head connected by a bolt. A boss to mount the knock sensor is provided on the crankcase. A center of the boss is positioned on a same side of a cylinder axis as the bolt, when viewed in an axial direction of the boss. | 01-24-2013 |
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20100291481 | TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND DEVELOPER TO BE SUPPLIED - A toner including: a binder resin containing at least a polyester resin (A) and a polyester resin (B) as main components; a colorant; a release agent; and a graft polymer containing a polyolefin resin and a vinyl resin, wherein the polyester resin (A) is a condensation product resulting from condensation polymerization between an alcohol component containing a dihydric alcohol compound, and a carboxylic acid component containing a rosin compound, and the rosin compound occupies 5% by mass or more of the total amount of the alcohol component and the carboxylic acid component, and wherein the polyester resin (B) is a condensation product resulting from condensation polymerization between an alcohol component containing a dihydric alcohol compound which includes at least an alkylene oxide adduct of a bisphenol compound represented by General Formula (1) below, and a carboxylic acid component: | 11-18-2010 |
20100316944 | TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic image developing toner including a resin fine particle, and a toner material containing a polyester-based resin, wherein the electrostatic image developing toner is obtained by dissolving and/or dispersing the toner material containing the polyester-based resin in an organic solvent to prepare a toner material liquid, and dispersing the toner material liquid in an aqueous solvent containing the resin fine particle, and wherein the polyester-based resin contains a polyester resin obtained by polycondensation of an alcohol component with a carboxylic acid component containing a modified purified-rosin. | 12-16-2010 |
20110165508 | TONER AND DEVELOPER - A toner containing at least a binder resin, releasing agent, and colorant, wherein the binder resin contains polyester resin (A), polyester resin (B), and polyester resin (C), which is prepared by condensation-polymerizing (i) an alcohol component containing an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol compound and (ii) a carboxylic acid component; at least one of the polyester resin (A) and polyester resin (B) is a polyester resin prepared by condensation-polymerizing (i) the alcohol component substantially composed of only aliphatic alcohol and containing 1,2-propanediol in an amount of 65 mole % or more of a divalent alcohol component and (ii) the carboxylic acid component; and a softening point Tm(A) of the polyester resin (A) is 10 C or more higher than Tm(B) of the polyester resin (B), and the absolute difference between Tm(C) of the polyester resin (C) and the Tm(B) is 5° C. or less. | 07-07-2011 |
20110229817 | CARRIER, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE CARRIER, DEVELOPER USING THE CARRIER, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE DEVELOPER - The carrier is used for a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image, and includes a particulate magnetic core material; and a cover layer located on a surface of the particulate magnetic core material and including a crosslinked material. The crosslinked material is formed by hydrolyzing a copolymer including at least a unit (A) having a specific acrylic siloxane structure including a tris(trialkylsiloxy)silanyl group and a unit (B) having a specific acrylic silicone structure to form a material having a silanol group, and subjecting the material having a silanol group to a condensation reaction using an organic zirconium-containing catalyst. | 09-22-2011 |
20120028183 | DEVELOPING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The developing method includes developing an electrostatic latent image on an image bearing member with a two-component developer including a toner and a carrier and born on at least one developer bearing member, whose surface moves at a linear speed of from 300 mm/sec to 2,000 mm/sec. The carrier includes a particulate core material; and a cover layer located on a surface of the core material and including a crosslinked material obtained by crosslinking a resin including a first unit having a specific tris(trialkylsiloxy) silyl group and a second unit having a specific alkoxysilyl group having a crosslinking ability. Each of the first unit and the second unit is included in the resin in a molar ratio of from 0.1 to 0.9 based on all the units included in the resin. | 02-02-2012 |
20120237868 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent is provided. The toner has a peak loss tangent (tan δ) value of 3 or more within a temperature range of 80 to 160° C. Here, the loss tangent (tan δ) 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. | 09-20-2012 |
20120251168 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrophotographic image forming method, including fixing one or more chromatic toner images on a recording medium; and fixing a transparent toner image on the chromatic toner image to partially or wholly increase glossiness of the recording medium, wherein the chromatic toner image has an average length (Sm) of concavities and convexities of from 50 to 350 μm. | 10-04-2012 |
20120251169 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming method including forming an electrostatic latent image on an image bearing member; developing the electrostatic latent image using a color toner and a transparent toner to form a color toner image and a transparent toner image thereon; transferring the color toner image and the transparent toner image to a recording material; and fixing the color toner image and the transparent toner image on the recording material. The color toner includes a polyester resin and a colorant, and the loss tangent of the color toner has a maximum peak at a temperature of from 80° C. to 160° C., and is not greater than 3 at the maximum peak. The transparent toner includes a crystalline polyester resin, and the loss tangent of the transparent toner has a maximum peak at a temperature of from 80° C. to 160° C., and is not less than 3 at the maximum peak. | 10-04-2012 |
20130244162 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains: a crystalline polyester resin (A); a non-crystalline resin (B); and a composite resin (C), where the composite resin (C) contains a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit, wherein the toner contains chloroform insoluble matter in an amount of 1% by mass to 30% by mass, wherein the toner has a molecular weight distribution having a main peak in a range of 1,000 to 10,000 and a half width of 15,000 or less, where the molecular weight distribution is obtained through gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of tetrahydrofuran soluble matter of the toner, and wherein the toner has an endothermic peak in a range of 90° C. to 130° C. in measurement through differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). | 09-19-2013 |
20130252160 | TONER FOR FORMING ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TONER FOR FORMING ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner for forming an electrophotographic image is provided, wherein the toner includes at least four types of binder resins,
| 09-26-2013 |
20130260299 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method including steps of forming a latent electrostatic image on an image bearing member, developing the latent electrostatic image with a development agent containing toner to obtain a toner image; transferring the toner image onto a transfer medium; fixing the toner image thereon; wherein the fixing is executed by a fixing device containing a heating roller; a fixing roller; a toner heating medium and the fixing roller; and a pressure roller wherein the toner contains a toner binder containing a crystalline resin containing a polyester resin A; a non-crystalline resin containing a non-crystalline resin B and a non-crystalline resin C, and a complex resin, wherein the toner has a main peak in a range of from 1,000 to 10,000 in the molecule weight distribution as measured for a component soluble in tetrahydrofuran by gel permeation chromatography with a half value width of 15,000 or less. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260302 | TONER FOR FORMING IMAGE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner, including: crystalline resin; non-crystalline resin; and a composite resin, wherein the crystalline resin is crystalline polyester resin (A), the non-crystalline resin comprises: non-crystalline resin (B) containing chloroform insoluble matter; and non-crystalline resin (C) having a softening temperature (T½) lower than that of the non-crystalline resin (B) by 25° C. or more, an absolute value |Tgc−Tgb| of a difference between a glass transition temperature (Tgc) of non-crystalline resin (C) and a glass transition temperature (Tgb) of non-crystalline resin (B) is 10° C. or lower, wherein the composite resin is composite resin (D) containing a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit, and the toner has a molecular weight distribution having a main peak in 1,000 to 10,000 and a half width of 15,000 or less, where the molecular weight distribution is obtained by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of tetrahydrofuran (THF) soluble matter of the toner. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260307 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner including a crystalline polyester resin (A), an amorphous resin (B), and a composite resin (C) having a condensation polymerization resin unit and an addition polymerization resin unit is provided. A molecular weight distribution of the toner based on THF-soluble contents thereof has a main peak within a molecular weight range from 1,000 to 10,000 and a half bandwidth of the main peak is 15,000 or less. The molecular weight distribution is determined by gel permeation chromatography. The toner includes chloroform-insoluble contents. A ratio C/R of the toner is within a range from 0.03 to 0.55. C and R represent heights of spectrum peaks specific to the crystalline polyester resin (A) and the amorphous resin (B), respectively, determined by a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic attenuation total reflection method after the toner is stored in a thermostatic chamber at 45° C. for 12 hours. | 10-03-2013 |
20140255840 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE TONER - A toner is provided. The toner includes a crystalline polyester resin (A); and a non-crystalline resin (B). The toner has a viscoelastic property such that the loss tangent (tan δ) defined as a ratio (G″/G′) of loss elastic modulus (G″) to storage elastic modulus (G′) has at least an inflection point or a local maximal point at a temperature α in a temperature range of from 65° C. to 80° C. while having a local maximal point at a temperature β in a temperature range of from 75° C. to 90° C., wherein the loss tangent at the temperature α is from 1.2 to 2.0, and the loss tangent at the temperature β is from 1.0 to 2.5, wherein the temperature α is lower than the temperature β. | 09-11-2014 |
20140348550 | TONER HOUSING CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Toner housing container includes: container body housing a toner; conveying portion conveying the toner from longer direction one end of container body to its other end at which container opening portion is provided; pipe receiving port receiving a conveying pipe fixed to toner conveying device; and uplifting portion moving the toner toward toner receiving port of conveying pipe. Toner has molecular weight distribution having a peak in a range of 10 | 11-27-2014 |
20150030819 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Toner contains a binder resin, a releasing agent, and a tri- or higher metal salt, wherein the toner has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of from 7,000 to 10,000, a ratio of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 5 or less, and an acid value of from 6 mgKOH/g to 12 mgKOH/g, wherein the binder resin is a polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent is a monoester wax. | 01-29-2015 |
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20100330489 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic image developing toner including a toner particle (C), wherein the toner particle (C) has a structure in which a resin particle (A) containing at least a first resin (a) or a coated film (P) containing the first resin (a) is attached to a surface of a resin-containing particle (B) containing a second resin (b), and wherein the resin (b) includes a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton, and the resin (a) is a polyester resin containing a polybasic acid and a polyhydric alcohol. | 12-30-2010 |
20110065036 | TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner including: a first binder resin; a colorant; a releasing agent; and a crystalline organic compound, wherein the first binder resin contains an amorphous polyester resin (a) having a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton derived from optically active monomers in a part of a main chain of the amorphous polyester resin, and the polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton has an optical purity X, calculated on the monomer basis, of 80% or less, and the optical purity X is determined from the equation, | 03-17-2011 |
20110104608 | TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner including: a resin particle (C) containing a first resin (a1), a second resin (a2), and a resin particle (B) to a surface of which the first resin (a1) and the second resin (a2) are attached, wherein the first resin (a1) and the second resin (a2) have mutually different glass transition temperatures, and wherein the resin particle (B) contains a third resin (b) having an amorphous polyhydroxycarboxylic acid skeleton. | 05-05-2011 |
20110124838 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION TONER, TONER, AND METHOD FOR RECYCLING PAPER - The present invention provides a method for producing a toner, which includes 1) saccharifying paper by at least one of a chemical degradation method and a biochemical degradation method to obtain a sugar-containing solution, 2) subjecting the sugar-containing solution obtained through 1) to lactic acid fermentation to obtain a lactic acid, 3) polymerizing the lactic acid obtained through 2) to obtain a polylactic acid, and 4) producing a toner using the polylactic acid obtained through 3). | 05-26-2011 |
20110151370 | TONER - The present invention provides a toner including: a colorant, and a binder resin, wherein the toner is fixed on a recording medium using a fixing liquid containing a softening agent for softening the toner, and wherein a weight average molecular weight of a THF soluble fraction of the toner in a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 3,000 to 8,300; and a glass transition temperature of the toner measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is 50° C. to 70° C. | 06-23-2011 |
20110281213 | TONER, DEVELOPMENT AGENT, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner containing a binder resin comprising a first binder resin A and a second binder resin B, a coloring agent, and a releasing agent, wherein the first binder resin A is formed by reacting a compound A1 having an active hydrogen group with a resin A2 having a portion reactive with the compound A1 in an organic solvent and the resin A2 is formed by reacting a non-crystalline polyester resin “a” having a polyhydroxy carboxylic acid skeleton in the main chain with a compound having the portion reactive with the compound A1 having an active hydrogen group. | 11-17-2011 |
20120231383 | RESIN FOR TONER, TONER USING THE RESIN, AND DEVELOPMENT AGENT USING THE TONER - A resin for toner containing a polyhydroxy carbonate skeleton and a rigid skeleton. | 09-13-2012 |
20120295188 | RESIN FOR USE IN TONER, TONER USING THE RESIN, DEVELOPER USING THE TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE TONER, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RESIN - A resin for use in toner is provided. The resin comprises an oligomer segment and a soft segment. The oligomer segment comprises a polyhydroxycarboxylic skeleton and an aromatic diol skeleton. | 11-22-2012 |