| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 430111400 | Identified physical parameter of carrier particle or dry toner particle, etc. (Tg, MW, coercivity, density, etc.) | 30 |
| 20080233510 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, TONER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Disclosed is a non-magnetic toner for use in developing electrostatic toner image, wherein the toner is produced by a toner production method that includes: dispersing in an aqueous medium an organic dispersion liquid that comprises in an organic solvent a pigment, a binder resin and/or a binder resin precursor, and a releasing agent; removing the organic solvent to prepare a dispersion slurry in which toner particles are dispersed in the aqueous medium; heating the dispersion slurry to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of the releasing agent; and washing the toner particles. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080261142 | Toner Powders and Process for Their Preparation - The present invention pertains to a process for the preparation of a toner powder, in which particles of one or more toner base compositions are combined into larger particles. The toner base compositions may be in the form of dry powders, e.g., manufactured by jet milling or by freeze drying powder dispersions. In that case, the combination of the toner base compositions into larger particles may be done by, e.g., mechanofusion. The toner base composition may also be in the form of an aqueous emulsion or dispersion. In that case, the combination of the base compositions into larger particles can be effected by spray-drying the emulsion or dispersion. In a preferred embodiment, the toner base composition in aqueous form is prepared via phase inversion emulsification, which preferably is carried out in an extruder. The invention also pertains to a toner powder comprising composite particles in which individual particles of toner base composition(s) are fused or bonded together in the form of cluster structures that do not break down under the mechanical and electrostatic forces encountered during toner use. This can be obtained by mechanofusion of dry toner base powders. The invention also pertains to a toner powder comprising composite particles in which individual particles of toner base composition(s) are fused or bonded together to form single substantially spherical particles. This can be obtained by spray drying of an aqueous emulsion or dispersion. The toner powders of the present invention have increased fluidity as compared to conventional powders. Toners with different colours can be prepared in a simple and convenient manner. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080299478 | Toner compositions - The present disclosure provides processes for reducing the particle size of latex resins and toners produced with such resins. In embodiments, a carboxylic acid may be added to materials utilized to produce a latex and reduce the particle size of the resulting latex particles and toner particles. In accordance with the present disclosure, one may be able to utilize materials for the production of latex resins and toners which may otherwise produce particles that are too large in the absence of the carboxylic acid. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080299479 | Toner compositions - Stabilizer compositions are provided having carboxylic acid groups. By esterifying some of the available carboxylic acid groups, the carboxylic acid number of the stabilizer may be adjusted. Such stabilizers may be utilized, in embodiments, for forming toner compositions. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090011358 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER, TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of manufacturing a toner in which uneven distribution of toner ingredients by subjecting them to fine dispersion is prevented and which is excellent in transferability, cleaning properties, anti-filming properties, anti-blocking properties, high-temperature offset resisting properties and transparency is provided. Melt-kneaded substances include binder resins, colorants and release agents, respectively. The colorant and the release agent are dispersed in the binder resin. The melt-kneaded substance is negatively charged by an anionic dispersant, whereas the melt-kneaded substance is positively charged by a cationic dispersant. An aggregate is formed by heteroaggregation of the melt-kneaded substances. The aggregate is fused by heating and formed into a spherical toner. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090017395 | TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner has columnar particles manufactured through: a kneading step of melt-kneading toner raw materials including at least binder resin, colorant and a release agent to prepare a kneaded product; a spinning step of extruding the kneaded product from orifices disposed at the tip of a spinning nozzle to prepare a fibrous kneaded product; and a pulverizing step of cutting or pulverizing the fibrous kneaded product, the toner matrix particles each having an aspect ratio of 0.5 to 5.0 and a d | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090042122 | METHODS OF PRODUCING TONER COMPOSITIONS AND TONER COMPOSITIONS PRODUCED THEREFROM - Toner compositions, methods for making toner compositions, and methods for coating toner particles. A method for coating toner particles may include mixing dry toner particles and a dispersion including shell particles to coat at least a portion of an exterior surface of the toner particles with an essentially continuous layer of the shell particles. The toner particles may comprise a first resin and a coloring agent. The shell particles may comprise a second resin. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090087772 | DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A yellow toner, a magenta toner and a cyan toner, which are used for forming a color image, each contain a yellow pigment having an average dispersed diameter d | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090117486 | METHOD OF PREPARING TONER AND THE TONER, AND DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD USING THE TONER - A method of preparing a toner, including periodically discharging a toner constituent liquid from plural nozzles having the same aperture diameter with a mechanical oscillator, wherein the toner constituent liquid includes:
| 05-07-2009 |
| 20090155710 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER AND TONER PRODUCED BY THE METHOD - A method of manufacturing toner including the steps of preparing a preliminary mixture by mixing a colorant and a release agent; preparing a raw material mixture by mixing the preliminary mixture with a binder resin and other raw materials; melt-kneading the raw material mixture using an open system roll type kneader; pulverizing the melt-kneaded raw material mixture into fine particles; and classifying the fine particles to prepare a toner. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090239172 | CHILLED FINISH ROLLER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An apparatus for fixing of toner onto a receiver, including: a non-contact fuser capable of fusing one or more layers of toner on a receiver such that one or more toner layers reach a fusing temperature above a glass transition temperature. The apparatus also includes one or more cooling finish rollers located downstream from the non-contact fuser to lower the toner temperature. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100003614 | RESIN COATED CARRIER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The resin coated carrier is used with a toner in which an external additive having an average primary particle size of 50 nm or more is added to a toner particle, and has a carrier core and a resin coating layer on the surface of the carrier core. In the resin coated carrier, the following expression (1) is satisfied: | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100055600 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A TONER, DEVICE OF MANUFACTURING A TONER, AND TONER - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a toner, wherein a liquid drop forming part including a storage part configured to store a toner composition liquid in which a toner composition including at least a resin and a coloring agent is dispersed or dissolved, a thin film on which a nozzle facing the storage part is formed, and a vibration generating part configured to vibrate the thin film via the toner composition liquid in the storage part are used, wherein plural storage chambers partitioned by a partition wall(s) are formed in the storage part and a width of each storage chamber in a direction of arrangement of the plural storage chambers and a width of each storage chamber in a direction orthogonal to the direction of arrangement of the storage chambers are formed to be one-half or less of a wavelength λ of a sonic wave generated in the storage part. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100143836 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER - This invention provides a toner for a method for image formation by electrophotography, particularly a toner that, in a one-component development method, has stable fluidity and electrostatic properties for a long period of time, is free from image defects, and is also excellent in transferability and transfer efficiency. The toner for electrophotography comprises matrix toner particles and at least titanium oxide fine particles and fluidizer fine particles deposited on the surface of matrix toner particles. The titanium oxide fine particles are spherical and have an average primary particle diameter of 200 to 400 nm. The fluidizer fine particles have a specific surface area of 60 to 250 m | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110059395 | LIGHT FIXING TONER, AND ONE-COMPONENT DEVELOPER AND TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER CONTAINING THE LIGHT FIXING TONER - A light fixing toner fixed by light irradiation without containing an infrared absorber, a one-component and a two-component developer containing the light fixing toner are provided. An infrared absorber-free light fixing toner is constituted of toner base particles containing a binder resin and a colorant, and having a shape factor SF-2 of from 105 to 115, and external additives, wherein a relative refractive index n | 03-10-2011 |
| 20120070774 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER AND TONER MANUFACTURED BY THE METHOD - A method of manufacturing toner including mixing mother toner particles containing a binder resin and a coloring agent and first particles having an average primary particle diameter of from 100 nm to 1 μm to using a mixer including a rotary shaft member, multiple stirring members provided to the surface of the shaft member, and a casing to cover the multiple stirring members, wherein the cross section of the inner periphery of the casing relative to a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of the shaft member is circular around the rotation axis with a substantially constant distance between the inner periphery and the rotation axis. The casing covers the multiple stirring members and a cooling jacket is provided to at least part of the outer periphery of the casing. The weight ratio of the particles to the mother toner particles is from 1.5% to 10%. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120082929 | Toner Block - There is provided a toner block, which is formed by preparing a toner suspension in which toner particles are dispersed in water so that a water amount is 32.5 to 37% by mass; absorbing water contained in the toner suspension by a water absorptive material which absorbs 0.2 ml of water within 3 minutes to prepare an aggregate of the toner particles containing water of not more than 32.3% by mass; and drying the aggregate, and which has a maximum compressive stress of 80000 to 550000 N/m | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120094230 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGES - The present invention is to provide a toner which can maintain a desired function of an external additive (a function to impart charge stability and flowability to the toner) under a severe usage environment such as high temperature and high humidity (H/H), which has an excellent initial charging speed, which has stable charging ability and flowability over time, which maintains reproducibility of thin lines and is unlikely to cause a deterioration in image quality due to fog or the like even after a large number of prints are continuously printed, and which has excellent printing durability. Also, the present invention is to provide a toner for developing electrostatic images, comprising external additives, and colored resin particles comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the external additives contain external additive A and external additive B, wherein external additive A is fatty acid metal salt particles, and a content of the fatty acid metal salt particles is in the range from 0.01 to 0.5 part by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the colored resin particles, and wherein external additive B is spherical colloidal silica particles having a number average primary particle diameter of 30 to 80 nm and being surface-treated with a silane compound having an alkyl group of 8 to 20 carbons, and a content of the spherical colloidal silica particles is in the range from 0.3 to 2.0 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the colored resin particles. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120251941 | TONER RESINS FOR ELECTRONIC COPYING PURPOSES - The present invention relates to a polycarbonate of number average molecular weight from 500 to 10000, glass transition point from 30 to 80° C. and hydroxyl group value of 30 mg KOH/g or less and the use of said polycarbonate in a urethane modified resin used as an ingredient for the production of a toner or a developer for electronic copying purposes. The present invention also relates to a urethane modified resin obtainable by the reaction of a polymer mixture comprising a polycarbonate according to any of claims | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120295196 | Bio-toner containning bio-resin, method for making the same, and method for printing with bio-toner containing bio-resin - There is provided in one embodiment a bio-toner having a bio-resin, a second resin, and one or more colorants. The second resin has at least one of a styrene acrylate resin or a polyester resin each having at least one molecular weight peak greater than 90,000 and at least one molecular weight peak less than 15,000. The bio-resin is a polyester polymer having one or more reacted di-acid monomer units and one or more reacted diol monomer units. At least one of the reacted di-acid monomer units or at least one of the reacted diol monomer units is a bio-monomer obtained from a plant or an animal source. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20140141370 | FINE SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER AND ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER EXTERNAL ADDITIVE USING THE FINE SPHERICAL SILICA POWDER - Provided is a suitable toner external additive which has an excellent spacer effect, without causing image defects in repeated image formation and which is suitable in preparing a toner with stable printing properties and to provide a fine spherical silica powder suitable for adding to the toner additive. A fine spherical silica power having an average particle size measured by a laser diffraction/scattering distribution measuring apparatus of 0.090 μm or more and 0.140 μm or less, a particle content ratio of 5.0% by mass or more and 25.0% by mass or less when the particle diameter is 0.150 μm or more, and a particle content ratio of 1.0% by mass or less when the particle diameter is 0.300 μm or more. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140199626 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ERASABLE TONER - According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing an erasable toner includes washing toner particles including therein a coloring material that is erasable by heating and a binder resin to obtain a toner cake having the amount of water of 20% by weight to 60% by weight, and drying the toner cake at 40° C. or more and at a temperature which is lower than the complete color erasing temperature of the toner particles by 30° C. or more. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20160004176 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGES - The present invention is to provide a toner which has an excellent balance between heat-resistant storage stability and low-temperature fixability and which is excellent in printing durability even under a wide range of temperature and humidity environments from a low temperature and low humidity environment to a high temperature and high humidity environment. Disclosed is a toner for developing electrostatic images, containing colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, a softening agent and a retention aid, and an external additive, wherein the retention aid is a copolymer of at least one of acrylic acid ester and methacrylic acid ester and at least one of acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, and wherein the copolymer has an acid value of 0.5 to 7 mgKOH/g, a weight average molecular weight Mw of 6,000 to 50,000, and a glass transition temperature of 60 to 85° C. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160202624 | TONER AND EXTERNAL ADDITIVE FOR TONER | 07-14-2016 |
| 430111410 | Electrical or magnetic parameter | 6 |
| 20100062360 | METHODS OF PRODUCING INK TONERS AND INK COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING INK TONERS - Methods of making ink toners for use in electrostatic imaging are disclosed. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100190101 | DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - There is provided a technique capable of reducing a transfer residual ratio of a toner to an image carrier. A developer includes a magnetic particle, and a toner particle charged by the magnetic particle, and when a relation between an adhesion force F of the toner particle to an image carrier of an image forming apparatus and a square of a charge amount q of the toner particle is represented by a linear function approximate expression of F=K×q | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100248126 | TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, REPLENISHING DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - A two-component developer containing a magenta toner and a magnetic carrier, wherein the magenta toner has the characteristics: (i) when the concentration of the magenta toner in a solution of the magenta toner in chloroform is represented by Cm (mg/ml) and the absorbance of the solution at a wavelength of 538 nm is represented by A538, a relationship between Cm and A538 satisfies the relationship of 2.00| 09-30-2010 | |
| 20110091805 | TONER COMPOSITIONS - Toner particles are provided which may, in embodiments, include an additive package including a titanium dioxide that has been subjected to a fluorine treatment. In embodiments, additional additives, including a silica, optionally in combination with a metal salt of a fatty acid, for example a zinc stearate, may be included. The additives provide toners with excellent charging characteristics and good blocking performance. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20150338755 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING STRUCTURED PARTICLES - Method for producing structured particles specifically nanoparticles, toners for laser printers and photocopiers, particularly chemical toner with particular product properties. The method produces toners of improved performance. Method relates particularly to the selection and properties of the base materials and utilizing these properties to design the toner product properties that result in improved performance. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160077453 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER BY MANAGING ZETA-POTENTIALS OF PARTICLES - A method for producing toner includes adding a liquid containing dispersed resin particles into a liquid containing dispersed colorant particles having a volume average particle size of equal to or greater than 6 μm and having a zeta-potential sign opposite to a zeta-potential sign of the resin particles, until a zeta-potential of aggregates of the colorant particle and the resin particles has a sign opposite to the zeta-potential sign of the colorant particles, adjusting the zeta-potential of the aggregates, such that an absolute value of the zeta-potential of the aggregates is smaller than an absolute value of the zeta-potential of the resin particles by more than 10 mv, and adding a liquid containing dispersed resin particles having a zeta-potential sign that is the same as the sign of the adjusted zeta-potential of the aggregates, into a liquid containing the aggregates. | 03-17-2016 |
