公开(公告)号：US20090123186A1

公开(公告)日：2009-05-14

申请号：US12091301

申请日：2006-11-01

申请人： Hideki Sugiura ,  Hiroyuki Fushimi ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Masami Tomita ,  Hyo Shu ,  Ken Umehara

发明人： Hideki Sugiura ,  Hiroyuki Fushimi ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Masami Tomita ,  Hyo Shu ,  Ken Umehara

IPC分类号： G03G15/01 ,  G03G9/087 ,  G03G9/09

CPC分类号： G03G9/08755 ,  G03G9/0806 ,  G03G9/0819 ,  G03G9/08753 ,  G03G9/08795 ,  G03G9/08797 ,  G03G9/091 ,  G03G9/0912 ,  G03G9/0914 ,  G03G9/0922

摘要： A toner is provided that comprises a colorant and a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a polyester resin that is prepared by a polycondensation reaction in the presence of at least a titanium-containing catalyst expressed by General Formula (II) or (II), the toner has a volume average particle diameter of 2.0 μm to 10.0 μm and a ratio Dv/Dn within a range of 1.00 to 1.40, in which Dv represents a volume average particle diameter and Dn represents a number average particle diameter, Ti(—X)m(-OH)n  General Formula (I) O═Ti(—X)p(-OR)q  General Formula (II) in General Formulas (I) and (II), X represents a residue of a mono-alkanolamine of 2 to 12 carbon atoms or a polyalkanolamine from which a hydrogen atom of one hydroxyl group is removed; other hydroxyl group(s) and still other hydroxyl group(s), within the polyalkanolamine molecule that has a directly bonding Ti atom, may polycondense to form a ring structure; other hydroxyl group(s) and still other hydroxyl group(s) may polycondense intermolecularly to form a repeating structure; and the polymerization degree is 2 to 5 in a case of forming the repeating structure; R represents one of a hydrogen atom and alkyl groups of 1 to 8 carbon atoms that may have 1 to 3 ether bonds; “m” is an integer of 1 to 4; “n” is an integer of 0 to 3; the sum of “m” and “n” is 4; “p” is an integer of 1 or 2; “q” is an integer of 0 or 1; the sum of “p” and “q” is 2; and in a case that “m” and “p” is 2 or more, the respective Xs may be identical or different each other.

公开(公告)号：US20080014527A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-17

申请号：US11777424

申请日：2007-07-13

申请人： Akihiro Kotsugai ,  Satoshi Mochizuki ,  Hisashi Nakajima ,  Yasuo Asahina ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Masayuki Ishii ,  Tomoyuki Ichikawa ,  Shinya Nakayama ,  Koichi Sakata ,  Tomoko Utsumi ,  Hitoshi Iwatsuki ,  Yasuaki Iwamoto ,  Hideki Sugiura ,  Masami Tomita

发明人： Akihiro Kotsugai ,  Satoshi Mochizuki ,  Hisashi Nakajima ,  Yasuo Asahina ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Masayuki Ishii ,  Tomoyuki Ichikawa ,  Shinya Nakayama ,  Koichi Sakata ,  Tomoko Utsumi ,  Hitoshi Iwatsuki ,  Yasuaki Iwamoto ,  Hideki Sugiura ,  Masami Tomita

IPC分类号： G03G13/16 ,  G03G15/08

CPC分类号： G03G9/0806 ,  G03G9/0819 ,  G03G9/0821 ,  G03G9/0825 ,  G03G9/0827 ,  G03G9/08755 ,  G03G9/08764 ,  G03G9/08791 ,  G03G9/08793 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09725

摘要： To provide a toner that can provide long-term removability and high-definition images with reduced image layer thickness and densely-packed toner particles, a developer capable of forming high-quality images using the toner, a toner container for containing the toner, a process cartridge using the toner, an image forming apparatus using the toner, and an image forming method using the toner. The toner of the present invention is a toner having a substantially spherical shape with irregularities on its surface and containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, wherein a surface factor SF-1 that represents the sphericity of toner particles is 105 to 180, a surface factor SF-2 that represents the degree of surface irregularities of the toner particles is correlated with the volume-average diameter of the toner particles, and the toner particles have an inorganic oxide particle-containing layer within 1 μm from their surfaces.

摘要翻译： 为了提供能够提供具有降低的图像层厚度和密集调色剂颗粒的长期可移除性和高清晰度图像的调色剂，能够使用调色剂形成高质量图像的显影剂，用于容纳调色剂的调色剂容器， 使用调色剂的处理盒，使用调色剂的图像形成装置和使用该调色剂的图像形成方法。 本发明的调色剂是具有基本上球形的调色剂，其表面上具有不规则性并且至少包含粘合剂树脂和着色剂，其中表示调色剂颗粒的球形度的表面系数SF-1为105至180， 表示调色剂颗粒的表面不规则度的表面因子SF-2与调色剂颗粒的体积平均直径相关，并且调色剂颗粒的表面上的无机氧化物颗粒含量在1um以内。

公开(公告)号：US09201326B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-01

申请号：US13729926

申请日：2012-12-28

申请人： Ryuuta Yoshida ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Masaki Watanabe ,  Daisuke Inoue ,  Tomoki Murayama ,  Mamoru Hozumi

发明人： Ryuuta Yoshida ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Masaki Watanabe ,  Daisuke Inoue ,  Tomoki Murayama ,  Mamoru Hozumi

IPC分类号： G03G9/087 ,  G03G9/08

CPC分类号： G03G9/08755 ,  G03G9/0802 ,  G03G9/08782 ,  G03G9/08797

摘要： A toner including: a binder resin containing a non-crystalline resin and a crystalline resin; a colorant; and, a releasing agent, wherein the releasing agent has a melting point of 55° C. to 80° C., and wherein the toner satisfies the following Expressions 1 and 2: (Expression 1): 20,000 Pa·s≦G1≦50,000 Pa·s; and (Expression 2): (G4/G2)/(G3/G1) 1.00, where G1 is a storage modulus, G2 is a loss modulus, G3 is a storage modulus and G4 is a loss modulus, and the storage modulus G1 and the loss modulus G2 are measured at 80° C. when the toner is heated from 70° C. to 150° C. and the storage modulus G3 and the loss modulus G4 are measured at 80° C. when the toner heated to 150° C. is cooled to 70° C.

摘要翻译： 一种调色剂，包括：含有非结晶性树脂和结晶性树脂的粘合剂树脂; 着色剂 和脱模剂，其中所述脱模剂的熔点为55℃至80℃，并且其中所述调色剂满足以下表达式1和2：（表达式1）：20,000Pa·s＆nlE; G1＆nlE; 50,000 Pa·s; 和（表达式2）：（G4 / G2）/（G3 / G1）1.00其中G1是储能模量，G2是损耗模量，G3是储能模量，G4是损耗模量，储能模量G1和 当调色剂从70℃加热至150℃时，在80℃下测量损耗模量G2，并且当调色剂加热至150°C时，在80℃下测量储能模量G3和损耗模量G4 C.冷却至70℃

公开(公告)号：US20150104739A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-16

申请号：US14384490

申请日：2013-03-07

申请人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Satoshi Kojima ,  Syouko Satoh ,  Kiwako Hirohara ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Satoshi Ogawa ,  Takahiro Honda

发明人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Satoshi Kojima ,  Syouko Satoh ,  Kiwako Hirohara ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Satoshi Ogawa ,  Takahiro Honda

IPC分类号： G03G9/00

CPC分类号： G03G9/08755 ,  G03G9/0804 ,  G03G9/0819 ,  G03G9/08797 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09725

摘要： A toner, containing: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the external additive includes non-spherical coalesced particles in each of which primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the coalesced particles satisfy the following formula (1): Nx/1,000×100≦30% where Nx is a number of the primary particles present alone relative to 1,000 of the coalesced particles, as observed under a scanning electron microscope after stirring 0.5 g of the coalesced particles and 49.5 g of a carrier placed in a 50 mL bottle for 10 minutes by means of a mixing and stirring device at 67 Hz.

摘要翻译： 调色剂，含有：调色剂基础颗粒; 和外部添加剂，所述调色剂基础颗粒各自包含粘合剂树脂和脱模剂，其中所述外部添加剂包括其中一次颗粒聚结在一起的非球形聚结颗粒，并且其中所述聚结颗粒满足下式（1 ）：Nx / 1,000×100＆nlE; 30％其中Nx是相对于1000个聚结颗粒单独存在的一次颗粒数，如在扫描电子显微镜下观察到的，搅拌0.5g聚结颗粒和49.5g载体 通过67Hz的混合搅拌装置置于50mL瓶中10分钟。

公开(公告)号：US20080070144A1

公开(公告)日：2008-03-20

申请号：US11852778

申请日：2007-09-10

申请人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

发明人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

IPC分类号： G03G9/00 ,  G03G15/06 ,  G03G5/00

CPC分类号： G03G15/08 ,  G03G9/09708 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09783 ,  G03G9/09791

摘要： A toner including toner particles including a binder resin, and a modified layered inorganic material in which at least part of interlayer ions is replaced with an organic ion, and a fatty acid metal compound located on a surface of the toner particles; and an external additive located on the fatty acid metal compound, wherein the external additive is a material different from the fatty acid metal compound. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image with a developer including the toner; a transfer device; and a fixing device. A method for preparing the toner including dispersing or emulsifying a toner composition including a modified layered inorganic material to prepare toner particles; mixing a fatty acid metal compound with the toner particles; and second mixing the toner particles with an external additive.

摘要翻译： 包含调色剂颗粒的调色剂，包括粘合剂树脂和至少部分层间离子被有机离子代替的改性层状无机材料和位于调色剂颗粒表面上的脂肪酸金属化合物; 和位于脂肪酸金属化合物上的外部添加剂，其中外部添加剂是不同于脂肪酸金属化合物的材料。 一种图像形成装置，包括图像承载部件; 显影装置，被配置为用包含调色剂的显影剂显影静电潜像; 转移装置; 和固定装置。 一种制备调色剂的方法，包括分散或乳化包含改性层状无机材料的调色剂组合物以制备调色剂颗粒; 将脂肪酸金属化合物与调色剂颗粒混合; 并且将调色剂颗粒与外部添加剂进行第二次混合。

公开(公告)号：US08029960B2

公开(公告)日：2011-10-04

申请号：US12046011

申请日：2008-03-11

申请人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

发明人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

IPC分类号： G03G5/04

CPC分类号： G03G9/0806 ,  G03G9/0819 ,  G03G9/08795 ,  G03G9/08797 ,  G03G9/0904 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09725

摘要： A toner, including a parent particulate material including a colorant and a binder resin, and an external additive including particles having an average primary particle diameter from 80 to less than 150 nm in an amount of from 0.03 to 2% by number, particles having an average primary particle diameter from 5 nm to less than 15 nm in an amount of from 50 to 95% by number, and particles having an average primary particle diameter from 15 to less than 40 nm in an amount of from 5 to 40% by number, and the particles having an average primary particle diameter from 80 to less than 150 nm include particles having an average primary particle diameter not less than 200 nm in an amount of from 10 to 30% by number, and have a weight reduction rate not greater than 3.00% when heated from 30 to 250° C.

摘要翻译： 包括着色剂和粘合剂树脂的母体颗粒材料的调色剂和包含平均一次粒径为80至小于150nm的颗粒的外部添加剂，其数量为0.03至2个数量的颗粒，其具有 平均一次粒径为50〜95个数的5nm〜15nm的平均一次粒径，平均一次粒径为15〜小于40nm的粒子数为5〜40个数 ，平均一次粒径为80〜小于150nm的粒子的平均一次粒径为200nm以上的平均粒径为10〜30体积％，重量减少率不大 当从30℃加热至250℃时超过3.00％

公开(公告)号：US08043778B2

公开(公告)日：2011-10-25

申请号：US11852778

申请日：2007-09-10

申请人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

发明人： Tsuneyasu Nagatomo ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Kojima

IPC分类号： G03G9/08

CPC分类号： G03G15/08 ,  G03G9/09708 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09783 ,  G03G9/09791

摘要： A toner including toner particles including a binder resin, and a modified layered inorganic material in which at least part of interlayer ions is replaced with an organic ion, and a fatty acid metal compound located on a surface of the toner particles; and an external additive located on the fatty acid metal compound, wherein the external additive is a material different from the fatty acid metal compound. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image with a developer including the toner; a transfer device; and a fixing device. A method for preparing the toner including dispersing or emulsifying a toner composition including a modified layered inorganic material to prepare toner particles; mixing a fatty acid metal compound with the toner particles; and second mixing the toner particles with an external additive.

摘要翻译： 包含调色剂颗粒的调色剂，包括粘合剂树脂和至少部分层间离子被有机离子代替的改性层状无机材料和位于调色剂颗粒表面上的脂肪酸金属化合物; 和位于脂肪酸金属化合物上的外部添加剂，其中外部添加剂是不同于脂肪酸金属化合物的材料。 一种图像形成装置，包括图像承载部件; 显影装置，被配置为用包含调色剂的显影剂显影静电潜像; 转移装置; 和固定装置。 一种制备调色剂的方法，包括分散或乳化包含改性层状无机材料的调色剂组合物以制备调色剂颗粒; 将脂肪酸金属化合物与调色剂颗粒混合; 并且将调色剂颗粒与外部添加剂进行第二次混合。

公开(公告)号：US20080069616A1

公开(公告)日：2008-03-20

申请号：US11857791

申请日：2007-09-19

申请人： Satoshi Kojima ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Tsuneyasu Nagatomo

发明人： Satoshi Kojima ,  Naohiro Watanabe ,  Osamu Uchinokura ,  Tsuneyasu Nagatomo

IPC分类号： G03G21/00

CPC分类号： G03G9/0827 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G21/0011

摘要： An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, a charging member to charge a surface of the image bearing member, an irradiation member to irradiate the image bearing member to write the latent electrostatic image, a development member to develop the latent electrostatic image with a toner to form a visualized image, a transfer device to transfer the visualized image directly or via an intermediate transfer body to a recording medium, a fixing device to fix the transferred image transferred on the recording medium and a cleaning device to remove residual toner remaining on the image bearing member. In the image forming apparatus, the cleaning device includes an elastic member having a blade forming a front end which is in contact with the image bearing member at a pressure of from 2 to 6 MPa and the toner is granulated in an aqueous phase and contains a laminar inorganic mineral having ions between layers at least part of which is modified by an organic ion and an average of a form factor SF-1 of the toner is from 130 to 160.

摘要翻译： 一种图像形成装置，包括承载静电潜像的图像承载部件，对图像承载部件的表面充电的充电部件，照射部件以照射图像承载部件以写入静电潜像，显影部件，以显影 具有调色剂的静电潜像以形成可视化图像，将可视图像直接或经由中间转印体转印到记录介质的转印装置，固定转印在记录介质上的转印图像的定影装置和清洁装置 以去除残留在图像承载部件上的残留调色剂。 在图像形成装置中，清洁装置包括弹性构件，该弹性构件具有形成在2至6MPa的压力下与图像承载构件接触的前端的刮板，并且调色剂在水相中造粒，并且包含 层状无机矿物在层之间具有离子，其中至少一部分由有机离子改性，并且调色剂的形状因子SF-1的平均值为130〜160。

公开(公告)号：US08652719B2

公开(公告)日：2014-02-18

申请号：US13449779

申请日：2012-04-18

申请人： Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Ogawa ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Teruki Kusahara ,  Daisuke Ito ,  Daisuke Inoue

发明人： Osamu Uchinokura ,  Satoshi Ogawa ,  Junichi Awamura ,  Teruki Kusahara ,  Daisuke Ito ,  Daisuke Inoue

IPC分类号： G03G9/10 ,  G03G9/00 ,  G03G13/01

CPC分类号： G03G9/0821 ,  G03G9/0804 ,  G03G9/08755 ,  G03G9/08795 ,  G03G9/08797 ,  G03G9/09

摘要： A set of toners including yellow, cyan, magenta, and black toner, each of which containing a binder resin containing a crystalline resin and a non-crystalline resin, a releasing agent, and a corresponding coloring agent, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: 0.8

摘要翻译： 一种包含黄色，青色，品红色和黑色调色剂的调色剂，每种调色剂含有含有结晶树脂和非结晶性树脂的粘合剂树脂，脱模剂和相应的着色剂，其中满足以下关系： 0.8

公开(公告)号：US08795938B2

公开(公告)日：2014-08-05

申请号：US13743528

申请日：2013-01-17

申请人： Osamu Uchinokura ,  Tomoyuki Satoh ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Daisuke Inoue ,  Mamoru Hozumi

发明人： Osamu Uchinokura ,  Tomoyuki Satoh ,  Takahiro Honda ,  Daisuke Inoue ,  Mamoru Hozumi

IPC分类号： G03G9/08 ,  G03G15/08 ,  G03G9/097

CPC分类号： G03G9/08 ,  G03G9/0806 ,  G03G9/09716 ,  G03G9/09725 ,  G03G9/09791 ,  G03G15/08

摘要： To provide a toner, which contains: toner base particles each containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive containing inorganic particles and fatty acid metal salt particles, wherein the inorganic particles contain at least hydrophobic silica particles, wherein a liberation ratio Ya of the hydrophobic silica particles from the toner is 1% by mass to 20% by mass, and wherein a libration ratio Yb of the fatty acid metal salt particles from the toner is 30% by mass to 90% by mass.

摘要翻译： 提供一种调色剂，其包含：各自含有粘合剂树脂和着色剂的调色剂基础颗粒; 以及含有无机粒子和脂肪酸金属盐粒子的外部添加剂，其中无机粒子至少含有疏水性二氧化硅粒子，其中来自调色剂的疏水性二氧化硅粒子的释放率Ya为1质量％〜20质量％，以及 其中来自调色剂的脂肪酸金属盐颗粒的析出比Yb为30质量％至90质量％。