Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100248118 | TONER PROCESSES - The present disclosure provides toners and processes for making said toners. In embodiments, the toners are invisible when viewed under natural light, but possess a UV additive that renders them visible when exposed to UV light of a specific wavelength. By selecting the appropriate UV additive and ionic crosslinker, with optional chelating agent, the gloss of the toner may be tailored to match the gloss of any substrate, such as paper, to which the toner is to be applied, thereby further enhancing its invisibility under visible light. | 09-30-2010 |
20100316946 | SELF EMULSIFYING GRANULES AND SOLVENT FREE PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF EMULSIONS THEREFROM - A process for making a self-emulsifying composite suitable for use in forming latex emulsions includes contacting a resin with a solid or highly concentrated surfactant, a solid neutralizing agent in the absence of water and an organic solvent to form a mixture, melt mixing the mixture, and forming a self-emulsifying composite of the melt mixed mixture such as a granule. Self-emulsifying granules are also provided and configured to form a latex emulsion when added to water, which may then be utilized to form a toner. | 12-16-2010 |
20100330486 | Toner Compositions - A toner including at least one amorphous polyester, at least one crystalline polyester and at least one ester wax, wherein the linear polyester and the at least one ester wax have a difference in solubility parameter of from about 0.1 to about 1.7. | 12-30-2010 |
20110052882 | TONER HAVING TITANIA AND PROCESSES THEREOF - The present disclosure provides white toner compositions and processes for making same. In embodiments, a desirable white toner may be produced without having to resort to excessive pigment loading, having desirable gloss characteristics. | 03-03-2011 |
20110053078 | CURABLE TONER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES - An emulsion aggregation toner composition includes toner particles including: an unsaturated polymeric resin, such as amorphous resins, crystalline resins, and combinations thereof; an optional colorant; an optional wax; an optional coagulant; and a photoinitiator. By optimizing the particle size of the emulsion, the aggregant concentration utilized in the emulsion aggregation process, and the solids content of the emulsion, toners may be produced capable of generating images with non-contact fusing that have high gloss. | 03-03-2011 |
20110065038 | CURABLE TONER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES - Processes for producing emulsion aggregation toners are provided. In embodiments, methods of the present disclosure may be utilized to produce toners suitable for low melt applications, including use in flexible packaging applications, where low pile height is desired for low cost and flexibility. In embodiments, the EA toners may include small particles having a shell with a high amount of resin, which optimizes the charging characteristics of the toner. | 03-17-2011 |
20110086302 | TONER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES - An emulsion aggregation toner composition includes toner particles including: an unsaturated polymeric resin, such as amorphous resins, crystalline resins, and combinations thereof; an optional colorant; an optional wax; an optional coagulant; and an IR absorber. The use of an IR absorber may permit formation of color toners that have uniform gloss and crease properties, i.e., the IR absorbers may prevent gloss and crease differences between color and black toners. | 04-14-2011 |
20110086303 | TONER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES - An emulsion aggregation toner composition includes toner particles including: an unsaturated polymeric resin, such as amorphous resins, crystalline resins, and combinations thereof; an optional colorant; an optional wax; an optional coagulant; and an IR absorber. The use of an IR absorber may permit formation of color toners that have uniform gloss and crease properties, i.e., the IR absorbers may prevent gloss and crease differences between color and black toners. | 04-14-2011 |
20110123924 | TONER COMPOSITIONS - The present disclosure provides for enzymatic polymerization to produce polyester resins suitable for use in manufacturing toners. In embodiments, crystalline copolymers, which are polyesters, may be synthesized from lactones, cyclic anhydrides, cyclic carbonates, and combinations thereof. These crystalline copolymers, in turn, may be utilized in the synthesis of toner particles. | 05-26-2011 |
20110129774 | INCORPORATION OF AN OIL COMPONENT INTO PHASE INVERSION EMULSION PROCESS - A process for making a resin emulsion suitable for use in forming toner particles including an oil component incorporated into the latex core of the toner particles. | 06-02-2011 |
20110143274 | TONER PROCESSES - The present disclosure provides toners and processes for making said toners. In embodiments, the toners are invisible when viewed under natural light, but possess a UV emitter that renders them visible when exposed to UV light of a specific wavelength. By selecting the appropriate UV emitter and utilizing an ionic crosslinker, the gloss of the toner may be tailored to match the gloss of any substrate, such as paper, to which the toner is to be applied, thereby further enhancing its invisibility under visible light. | 06-16-2011 |
20110143278 | TONER PROCESSES - The present disclosure provides toners and processes for making said toners. In embodiments, the toners are invisible when viewed under natural light, but possess a fluorescent agent that renders them visible when exposed to UV light of a specific wavelength. In other embodiments the toners have a color under natural light, and a different color when exposed to UV light. | 06-16-2011 |
20110206400 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides toners having a tunable gloss level, electrophotographic apparatuses for using such toners as well as processes for making such toners. | 08-25-2011 |
20110207044 | TUNABLE GLOSS TONERS - The present disclosure provides toners having a tunable gloss level, electrophotographic apparatuses for using such toners as well as processes for making such toners. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211877 | FUSER OIL APPLICATOR AND CLEANER IN A SINGLE WEB CARTRIDGE SYSTEM IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH FUSER ROLL - According to aspects of the embodiments there is provided a cassette cleaning web having an agent metering tube that can apply oil via a drip pipe to a web as it enters a nip within the fusing surface. Dispensing the oil as it enters the nip increases the transportation and the holding capacity of the web. The cassette cleaning web can reduce the oil-on-copy to less than 3 mg/copy and more specifically to less than 1 mg/copy which would allow for adequate post finishing applications while still using amino functionalized fuser oil in the fuser subsystem. The cassette cleaning web reduces the contamination of the oil-sump because used web materials are wound up and oil or contaminate materials like wax, toner are retained in the spent web cartridge. This invention enables reduced oil-on-copy, eliminates the bulky and expensive release agent management system, and also provides a direct cleaning to the surface of the fuser roll. | 09-01-2011 |
20110217645 | TONER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS - A toner and method for making a toner that includes an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin, and a cyanine dye. The cyanine dye improves heat cohesion without negatively effecting other desirable properties. | 09-08-2011 |
20110217647 | TONER COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES - Toners are provided which possess excellent blocking characteristics. The toners include cores including amorphous resins having low glass transition temperatures, amorphous resins having high glass transition temperatures, and crystalline resins, and shells including amorphous resins having high glass transition temperatures. | 09-08-2011 |
20110217648 | TONER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS - Emulsion aggregation toner particles including a resin, polysaccharide particles, an optional wax, and an optional colorant. The toner particles contain about 1 to about 50 wt % polysaccharide particles based on the total weight of the toner particles. | 09-08-2011 |
20110250536 | IMAGING PROCESSES - The present disclosure provides processes for producing images with toner particles. In embodiments, toner particles of a certain diameter in size are applied to a substrate as an incomplete monolayer, and then fused to form an image that is a complete monolayer and possesses a thickness less than the diameter of the particles utilized to form the image. | 10-13-2011 |
20110281104 | NON-STICKY ERASABLE MEDIA WITH OVERCOAT - Exemplary embodiments provide an erasable medium having an overcoat layer on a photochromic layer to provide a non-adhesive surface for the erasable medium when exposed to high temperatures, wherein the overcoat layer can include a latex or a mixture of a latex and a wax. | 11-17-2011 |
20120244469 | TUNABLE GLOSS USING AEROGEL CERAMIC FILLERS ADDED TO VITON COATINGS FOR FUSING APPLICATIONS - Exemplary embodiments provide materials, methods, and systems for a fuser member used in electrophotographic devices and processes, wherein the fuser member can include a coating material containing a plurality of aerogel fillers dispersed in and/or bonded to a polymer matrix for providing a desired gloss level of fused toner images. | 09-27-2012 |
20120288789 | SUPER LOW MELT TONERS - Environmentally friendly latex particles are provided which include a gelling agent and a pigment encapsulated in an amorphous resin which may be utilized in forming EA super low melt toners. Methods for providing these resins and toners are also provided. | 11-15-2012 |
20130114980 | DUAL TONER REPLENISHER ASSEMBLY FOR CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE GLOSS - A color image forming machine is provided having a plurality of xerographic marking engines, each forming associated color separations that are combined to produce a color print image. Each marking engine includes a dual replenisher assembly having first and second reservoirs containing respective toners of different gloss levels. The reservoirs each include one or more augers separately and independently controlled for dispensing the respective toners into a developer to continuously vary the gloss level of the toner in the developer. | 05-09-2013 |
20130183615 | Tunable Gloss Toners - The present disclosure provides toners having a tunable gloss level, electrophotographic apparatus for suing such toners as well as processes for making such toners. | 07-18-2013 |
20140170548 | Continuous Production of Toner - Continuous and semi-continuous emulsion aggregation processes for the production of toner particles are presented. | 06-19-2014 |
20140197364 | UV Red Fluorescent EA Toner - The present disclosure relates to a toner design for a clear UV red fluorescence toner having a high lanthanide complex pigment loading, including methods of making the fluorescence toner using a saccharide or a sugar acid to avoid complexation of lanthanide ions from the pigment, with lower aggregation and coalescence temperatures in the preparation of toner particles, where the particles exhibit a narrow size distribution and good xerographic performance. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199623 | Tuning Toner Gloss with Bio-based Stabilizers - The disclosure describes a process to produce toner with tunable gloss levels comprising a stabilizer to freeze particle growth following aggregation, where the stabilizer does not chelate metal ions. | 07-17-2014 |