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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner manufacturing method for manufacturing the toner that can be fixed at a low temperature and can form a high definition, high resolution, and high quality image with a narrow particle size distribution width in a state where reduction in production efficiency is prevented. SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing toner includes a toner fluid dispersion-preparing step and a drying step. In the toner fluid dispersion-preparing step, toner fluid dispersion is prepared where toner mother particles containing binder resin having a glass transition temperature of 60°C or lower are dispersed at content of 10 to 40 wt.% in aqueous medium. In the drying step, dried toner mother particles are obtained by atomizing the toner fluid dispersion obtained in the toner fluid dispersion-preparing step into a drying chamber where pulse impulse wave is radiated at a temperature that is a glass transition temperature of the binder resin or higher and (glass transition temperature of the binder resin + 10)°C or lower. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: toner of high transparency and high coloring power, and excellent in fluidity, electrification stability, preserving property, and durability, in spite of being low temperature fixability; a method of manufacturing the toner; a two-component developer; a developing device; and an image forming apparatus thereof. SOLUTION: In a melt kneading step, a melt kneaded object of coloring resin particles is obtained by melt kneading at least a binder resin and a coloring agent in a specific temperature range. In a coloring resin particles-scattering step, slurry of coloring resin particles is obtained by dispersing the melt kneaded object of the coloring resin particles into a liquid medium. In the capsulated mold-releasing agent particles-dispersing step, slurry of the capsulated mold-releasing agent particles is obtained. In the flocculating step, the slurry of the coloring resin particles and the slurry of the capsulated mold releasing agent particles are mixed and the coloring resin particles and the capsulated mold-releasing agent particles are made to flocculate. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner in which a low-melting release agent does not directly appear to the toner surface and which is excellent in fluidity, charge stability and durability, while having low-temperature fixability. SOLUTION: The toner 100 includes a main resin, a colorant and two or more release agents different in melting point, wherein the release agent having the lowest melting point among the two or more release agents is encapsulated with a resin and a foaming agent is included in the capsule. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide toner suppressing environmental contamination, free from degradation of toner durability, securing a sufficiently wide color reproduction range even if applied to color toner and reducing characteristic variation among toner particles, and also to provide its manufacturing method, a two-component developer, a developing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: The toner containing at least binding resin has the biomass resin-containing domain 2 formed in the toner particle 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a toner excellent in transferability, cleaning property, filming resistance, blocking resistance, hot offset resistance and transparency by finely dispersing toner components so as to prevent uneven distribution. SOLUTION: Melt-kneaded products 1 and 2 are each composed of a binder resin 3a, 3b, a colorant 4a, 4b and a release agent 5a, 5b. The colorant and release agent are dispersed in the binder resin. The melt-kneaded product 1 is negatively charged by an anionic dispersant 6, and the melt-kneaded product 2 is positively charged by a cationic dispersant 7. An aggregate 8 is formed by heteroaggregation of a plurality of such melt-kneaded products 1 and 2. The aggregate 8 is fused by heating to form a circular toner 9. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method capable of easily and continuously producing a toner having a sharp particle size distribution, to provide a toner, to provide a two component developer, to provide a developing device, and to provide an image forming apparatus. SOLUTION: A toner raw material mixed liquid obtained by mixing a resin particulate-dispersed liquid at least comprising a binding resin with the other toner component is continuously fed to a mixing space under pressure, a flocculant is continuously fed to the mixing space, the toner raw materials are flocculated by inline flocculation, and the obtained flocculated particle-dispersed liquid is cooled/decompressed, so as to obtain a toner. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for cleaning a particle in which the amount of a cleaning liquid to be used is made small, by which an apparatus for cleaning the particle can be miniaturized and in which the particle can be cleaned continuously and uniformly in high efficiency and to provide the apparatus for cleaning the particle in which this cleaning method is used. SOLUTION: In a dispersion liquid supply step, a particle-dispersed liquid is supplied continuously to a mixing space while being pressurized and the cleaning liquid is also supplied continuously to the mixing space while being pressurized to clean the particle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing small-sized toner, having a particle size of about 5 μm suitable for higher definition and higher resolution of an image, by preventing generation of bubbles when applying a shear force with respect to the method of manufacturing toner where granulation is performed by using the shear force. SOLUTION: When performing granulation by mixing a compound of toner raw material with water dispersions of a dispersant, the inner part of a granulation system is heated and pressurized, a high-speed rotary dispersion type granulator 1, that includes a cylindrical pressure vessel 2, a rotating rotor 3, follow-up screens 4, 5, and a fixed screen 6, is used as a granulator, and an impact force, as well as, the shear force is applied to the compound of the toner raw material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing toner by which a toner which prevents hot offset, can ensure a satisfactory anti-offset region and excels in fluidity is obtained in a high yield. SOLUTION: A binder resin 22, a colorant and polymer particles 23 having a larger weight average molecular weight than the binder resin 22 are melt-kneaded at a temperature higher than the softening point of the binder resin 22 and lower than the softening point of the polymer particles 23, the resulting melt-kneaded material 21 is put in a supercritical fluid or a subcritical fluid and stirred under heating, and then the pressure of the supercritical fluid or the subcritical fluid is reduced to produce a toner, whereby the objective toner having a wide anti-offset region, a sphere shape, excellent fluidity and a narrow particle size distribution can be manufactured in a high yield. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner for electrostatic image development having high chroma and high transparency irrespectively of a high organic pigment concentration so as to meet the demand for higher image quality and lower toner consumption, and to provide a method for manufacturing the toner. SOLUTION: The toner for electrostatic image development contains at least an organic pigment and a binder resin, wherein the toner satisfies the expression (I): 1-R/A≤0.014C (where A is the total area of a graph with the x-axis: a visible light region, 380-780 nm and the y-axis: transmittance, 0-100%, showing a spectral transmittance curve on a supernatant liquid after extracting the toner with a supercritical fluid; R is an area obtained by a rectangular method from the spectral transmittance curve of the graph; and C is a concentration (wt.%) of the organic pigment in the toner), and wherein the particle diameter of the organic pigment dispersed in the toner is 1/10-1/2 (1/10-4/7 in the case of a yellow organic pigment) of the maximum absorption wavelength of the organic pigment, and the toner has a cloudiness value of ≤16. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT