Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120282000 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner for electrophotography, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin in an amount of 50% by mass or greater, and wherein the organic-modified layered inorganic mineral is an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral in which at least part of ions present between layers of a layered inorganic mineral are modified with organic ions. | 11-08-2012 |
20130065172 | TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including a colorant and a first binder resin is provided. The first binder resin has first and second glass transition points at a temperature Tg1 of −20 to 20° C. and a temperature Tg2 of 35 to 65° C., respectively, measured by a differential scanning calorimeter at a heating rate of 5° C./min. A ratio h1/h2 of a baseline displacement h1 observed in the first glass transition point to a baseline displacement h2 observed in the second glass transition point is less than 1.0. The first binder resin has a structure in which a first phase is dispersed in a second phase. The first and second phases consist of portions having larger and smaller phase difference values, respectively, than an intermediate value between maximum and minimum phase difference values in a binarized phase image obtained by an atomic force microscope with a tapping mode method. | 03-14-2013 |
20130078563 | TONER AND DEVELOPMENT AGENT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE SAME - A toner includes a coloring agent, a binder resin comprising a crystalline resin having a urethane skeleton and/or urea skeleton, and a releasing agent (a microcrystalline wax). A development agent, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus employ the toner to form images on recording media electrophotographically. | 03-28-2013 |
20130108950 | TONER, AND DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER | 05-02-2013 |
20130115550 | TONER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including a core particle and projections at a surface of the core particle is provided. The core particle includes a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin includes a crystalline resin as a major component. Each of the projections consists of a fine resin particle. An average length of long sides of the projections is not less than 0.15 μm and less than 0.5 μm. A standard deviation of lengths of the long sides of the projections is 0.2 or less. A surface coverage of the toner with the projections is within a range of 30 to 90%. | 05-09-2013 |
20130143155 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide a toner, including: a crystalline binder resin including a urethane bond or a urea bond, or both thereof, and a colorant, wherein the colorant has a number-average particle diameter of 0.5 μm or less, and a ratio of particles having a particle diameter of 0.7 μm or greater in a number-size distribution of the colorant is 5% by number or less. | 06-06-2013 |
20130149642 | TONER AND DEVELOPER - To provide a toner, which contains a first binder resin, and a second binder resin, wherein the first binder resin is a block polymer containing at least a polyester skeleton A having, in a repeating structure thereof, a constitutional unit formed by dehydration condensation of hydroxycarboxylic acid, and a skeleton B that does not have, in a repeating structure thereof, a constitutional unit formed by dehydration condensation of hydroxycarboxylic acid, and the first binder resin has glass transition temperature Tg1 and Tg 2 as measured by differential scanning calorimetry at a heating rate of 5° C./min, wherein the Tg1 is −20° C. to 20° C., and the Tg2 is 35° C. to 65° C., and wherein the second binder resin is a crystalline resin. | 06-13-2013 |
20130171550 | TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner including at least a binder resin and a colorant,
| 07-04-2013 |
20130202996 | TONER, DEVELOPER INCLUDING THE TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER, AND BLOCK COPOLYMER - The toner includes a pigment; and a block copolymer having a polyester block A including a residual group of a hydroxycarboxylic acid, and a polyester block B including an anionic group. When cross-section of the block copolymer is observed by a tapping mode atomic force microscope to obtain a phase image of the cross-section, the polyester block B, which has relatively large phase delay, is dispersed as domains having an average size of from 20 nm to 100 nm in a domain of the polyester block A, which has relatively small phase delay. The block copolymer has a first glass transition temperature of from −20° C. to 20° C., and a second glass transition temperature of from 35° C. to 65° C. when the first and second glass transition temperatures are determined from a thermogram obtained by subjecting the block copolymer to differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at a temperature rising speed of 5° C./min. | 08-08-2013 |
20130244153 | DEVELOPMENT AGENT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EMPLOYING SAME - A development agent containing toner that contains a binder resin having a crystalline resin that has a urethane and/or urea bond in its main chain, a coloring agent, and an organically modified inorganic laminate compound in which organic ions are at least partially substituted for ions present between layers of the organically modified inorganic laminate compound, and toner carrier that contains a core material whose surface is coated with a coating layer having a condensed compound of a melamine resin and/or a guanamine resin and an acrylic resin having a hydroxyl group. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244154 | TONER, DEVELOPMENT AGENT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Toner containing a binder resin that contains at least one kind of resin having a crystalline polyester unit as its main component and a releasing agent containing a straight-chain mono ester having 48 or more carbon atoms accounting for 40% by weight or more of the releasing agent. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244167 | TONER AND DEVELOPER - A toner including a binder resin having a glass transition temperature (Tg) observed at least at one point from 25 to 65° C. in a differential scanning calorimeter at a rate of temperature increase of 5° C./min, wherein the toner has a structure in which a structure appearing as a high phase difference image is dispersed in a structure appearing as a low phase difference image in a two-dimensional phase difference image observed by tapping mode AFM, and an X-ray diffraction chart in which a peak originated from an crystalline resin is observed in a range of a diffraction angle 2θ of from 20 to 25°, and wherein a ratio (I1/I2) of an intensity of the peak originated from an crystalline resin to an intensity (I2) of a halo originated from an amorphous composition is from 0.2 to 1. | 09-19-2013 |
20130252158 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic toner, including: a binder resin; a colorant; and an organically-modified layered inorganic mineral, wherein the binder resin contains 50% by mass or more of a crystalline resin relative to the binder resin, and the crystalline resin contains a resin having a sulfonic acid group, and wherein an amount of the sulfonic acid group is 0.1% by mass to 2.0% by mass relative to the resin having the sulfonic acid group. | 09-26-2013 |
20130260298 | TONER, DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including: a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner is obtained by dispersing or emulsifying an oil phase in an aqueous solvent containing an organic sulfonic acid salt and an inorganic salt, the oil phase including the binder resin and the colorant dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent, wherein the binder resin comprises a crystalline resin in an amount of 50% by mass or more relative to the binder resin, and wherein the toner has an average circularity of 0.980 or less. | 10-03-2013 |
20140065534 | TONER, DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner, including: a crystalline resin containing a urethane bond, a urea bond, or both thereof; and a compound represented by the following General Formula (1), wherein an amount of the compound represented by the General Formula (1) is 0.01% by mass to 0.25% by mass: | 03-06-2014 |
20140093820 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER FOR DEVELOPING A LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE - To provide a toner containing toner base particles, in each of which a colorant and a releasing agent are encapsulated with a binder resin, where the toner base particles are obtained by the method containing: mixing and emulsifying a mixture containing the binder resin, the colorant, the releasing agent, and an organic solvent in an aqueous medium in the presence of resin particles, wherein the aqueous medium contains a surfactant and an inorganic salt. | 04-03-2014 |
20140301757 | TONER, DEVELOPER USING THE TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including at least a crystalline resin as a binder resin, wherein a tetrahydrofuran soluble content of the toner includes 5.0% or more as a peak area of a component having a molecular weight of 100,000 or greater in a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography, and the tetrahydrofuran soluble content of the toner has a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 60,000. | 10-09-2014 |
20140342284 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER, DEVELOPER CONTAINING THE TONER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic toner including: a binder resin, wherein the binder resin has one glass transition temperature Tg and the glass transition temperature Tg of the binder resin is within 25° C. to 65° C. as measured in second heating with a differential scanning calorimeter at a heating rate of 5° C./min, and wherein a phase image of the binder resin obtained with an atomic force microscope (AFM) of tapping mode contains first phase difference regions and a second phase difference region such that the first phase difference regions are dispersed in the second phase difference region, where the first phase difference regions correspond to greater phase difference regions and the second phase difference region corresponds to a smaller phase difference region when an intermediate value between a maximum value and a minimum value of the phase differences is used as a threshold. | 11-20-2014 |
20150072287 | TONER FOR IMAGE FORMATION, AND DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER - A toner is provided. The toner includes a crosslinked polyester resin, and a block copolymer. The crosslinked polyester resin includes a diol component, which includes an aliphatic diol component having 3 to 10 carbon atoms in an amount of 50% by mole, and a crosslinked component, which is at least one of a crosslinked component of an aliphatic alcohol having three or more valences and a crosslinked component of an aliphatic acid having three or more valences, and the block copolymer includes a crystalline segment (a) and a non-crystalline segment (b). The toner has a first glass transition temperature (Tg1st) of from 20° C. to 50° C., which is determined by subjecting the toner to differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and measuring a glass transition temperature in a first temperature rising process in the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). | 03-12-2015 |