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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a capsule toner, a two-component developer, and a method for producing the capsule toner, in which a resin coating layer composed of fine release-agent particles and resin fine particles is formed on the surfaces of toner base particles, and thus excellent offset resistance is provided without impairing blocking resistance. SOLUTION: The capsule toner comprises: toner base particles containing a binder resin and a colorant; and a resin coating layer made of fine release-agent particles and fine resin particles, for covering the surfaces of toner base particles. The fine release-agent particles are dispersed in the resin coating layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a capsule toner having a uniform thickness of a coating layer, for improving image stability, fixability of the toner and high temperature stability of a developer.SOLUTION: The method for producing a capsule toner includes: a particulate mixture deposition step of mixing resin fine particles with silica fine particles and depositing the obtained particulate mixture on surfaces of toner base particles; a spraying step of spraying a liquid that plasticizes the particles on the toner base particles and the particulate mixture in a fluidized state; and a film-forming step of softening the resin fine particles depositing on the toner base particles to form a film. The particulate mixture contains silica fine particles having a particle diameter of 50% or more and 100% or smaller of the particle diameter of the resin fine particles, by 10 wt.% or more and 30 wt.% or smaller with respect to the resin fine particles.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner manufacturing method that prevents an external additive from being separated from a toner surface and has excellent transfer efficiency for a long time, and to provide the toner produced by the method, a two-component developer which includes the toner and whose charge amount is hardly reduced, a developing device using the two-component developer, and an image forming device. SOLUTION: Surfaces of toner mother particles are coated with resin particles of 0.05 to 1 μm, impact force is applied while a plasticizing liquid is sprayed to form a coated layer comprising the resin particles while concave parts remain on the surface, and then fixed impact force is applied to spacer particles of 40 to 300 nm toward the surface concave parts while the plasticizing liquid is sprayed, to fix the spacer particles to the coated layer in a semi-buried state. The two-component developer including the toner thus produced is filled in the developing device of the image forming device to form an image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner producing method which forms resin microparticle layers uniform in layer thickness, on the surfaces of toner base particles, and prevents generation of aggregates caused by the toner base particles and the resin microparticles, and also prevents the toner base particles and the resin microparticles from adhering to the inner wall face of a toner-producing device; and to provide a toner produced by the method concerned, a two-component developer, a developing device, and an image-forming device. SOLUTION: A powder-flowing process S3 and a spraying process S4 are performed by using a toner-producing device 201 so that the following equations may be satisfied: 12≤(Fa+Fb)/Fc≤100 and 440≤Wt/Fc≤3,300, wherein Fa [L/min] represents the amount of a carrier gas supplied from a rotary shaft part 218, Fb [L/min] represents the amount of the carrier gas supplied from a spraying part 203, Fc [mL/min] represents the amount of a volatile liquid sprayed from the spraying part 203, and Wt [g] represents the total weight of powder. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing toner in high yield by coating surfaces of toner base particles with a resin layer while maintaining a fluidized state of the powder particles, and suppressing aggregation deposition of particles in an apparatus, and also to provide the toner obtained by the method, a developer containing the toner, and a developing device and an image forming apparatus using the developer. SOLUTION: The method for manufacturing the toner includes a premixing step and a coating film forming step. In the premixing step, toner base particles and resin fine particles are mixed and stirred so as to crush secondary aggregates of the resin fine particles by using a rotary stirring device equipped with a rotary stirring means, a temperature controlling means, a circulating means, and a spraying means, and the crushed resin fine particles are fixed to the surfaces of the toner base particles to obtain a toner with fixed resin fine particles. In the coating film forming step, a coating film of the resin fine particles is formed by using the rotary stirring device, by spraying a liquid to the toner with fixed resin fine particles by the spraying means. Temperatures are controlled by the temperature controlling means in the premixing step and the coating film forming step. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer that stabilizes and maintains a charge amount of toner, and outputs an image of high picture quality for a long period of time. SOLUTION: The developer 1 contains a carrier 2 and a toner 3, wherein the toner 3 contains a charge control agent, the carrier 2 has a coating layer 2b on the surface to which a charge control agent and conductive particles are added, and the entire structural elements in either the charge control agent of the toner 3 or in the charge control agent of the carrier 2 are included in the structural elements of the other. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming a high-quality image by preventing carrier deposition on an image carrier caused by peeling of a resin layer which coats the carrier due to long-term use of a developer resulting in decrease in the volume resistivity of the carrier. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus is equipped with: a resistance detecting unit 14 which detects the volume resistivity of a two-component developer 11 held on the surface of a developer carrier 12; a resistance memory unit 16 which stores a preliminarily determined volume resistivity; a resistance comparing unit 15 which compares the volume resistivity of the two-component developer 11 detected by the resistance detecting unit 14 with a determined volume resistivity stored in the resistance memory unit 16; and a control unit 17 which executes a process of exchanging the two-component developer or the carrier when the volume resistivity of the two-component developer 11 decreases lower than the determined volume resistivity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress induced charge injection into a carrier due to a development field which acts on a development area where an image bearing member and a developer bearing member confront each other, and to form a high quality image. SOLUTION: A surface of a metal sleeve 102 is coated with a resistance layer 103 the volume resistivity value of which is higher than that of a magnetic carrier 10 in a development nip part which is an area where a two-component developer 12 held by a developer bearing member 13 comes in contact with an image bearing member 14 opposite to the developer bearing member 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid break of a meniscus formed on a nozzle surface of an ejection head which results from a sudden pressure variation at a sub tank when negative pressure is applied to the ejection head by reducing the pressure of the sub tank in a state with the discharge head and the sub tank made to communicate with each other in a fluid ejecting apparatus. SOLUTION: A negative pressure arrival rate adjusting part 20 which controls a rate at the time when the sub tank 13 is brought to designated negative pressure is set between the sub tank 13 and a negative pressure generating part 19 which reduces the pressure of the sub tank 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device which can maintain uniformity of a developer layer for a long period by forming the developer layer which is free of layer thickness unevenness and electrostatic charging unevenness axially and circumferentially on a developer carrier. SOLUTION: The developing device is equipped with an electrostatic latent image carrier which has an electrostatic latent image formed on its surface, a developer carrier which carries a developer for developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image carrier, and a layer restriction part which restricts the layer thickness of the developer carried by the developer carrier; and the layer restriction part comprises a layer restricting body and a holder supporting the layer restricting body and the holder comprises a lever member having a force application point on which a load is placed, a fulcrum as a center of rotation of the holder when the load is placed on the force application point, and an operation point where the layer restricting body comes into contact with the developer carried by the developer carrier when the holder rotates on the fulcrum, the fulcrum is set on the tangent of the layer restricting body and developer carrier which passes the operation point. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO