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20100092488 | Method for Treatment or Prevention of Disease Associated Wtih Functional Disorder of Regulatory T Cell - The inventors examined the role of MK in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, which is a human model for multiple sclerosis. As a result, they discovered that MK has the effect of inhibiting regulatory T cells, and that the autoimmune mechanism induced by type 1 helper T cells can be suppressed by inhibiting MK expression or its activity, thereby increasing the number of regulatory T cells. Furthermore, it was found that diseases associated with the functional disorder of regulatory T cells can be treated with the administration of an inhibitor that inhibits MK expression or activity. | 04-15-2010 |
20100233103 | Water-In-Oil Type Emulsion Sunscreen Cosmetics - The present invention provides water-in-oil type emulsion sunscreen cosmetics that achieve an excellent UV blocking effect, and have excellent effects in the prevention and inhibition of discoloration (discoloration to red). The water-in-oil emulsion sunscreen cosmetic according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: (a) octocrylene; (b) hydrophobized zinc oxide; (c) cationic surfactant; and (d) silica. | 09-16-2010 |
20100311187 | ANTIBODY RECOGNIZING C-DOMAIN OF MIDKINE - It is intended to provide an antibody which inhibits the function of midkine. An antibody which recognizes an epitope consisting of amino acid residues 62 to 104 of midkine or a fragment thereof; DNA encoding the antibody or a fragment thereof; a recombinant vector which contains the DNA; a transformant which has the vector or a hybridoma which produces the antibody; a method for producing the antibody by allowing the transformant or hybridoma to produce the antibody or a fragment thereof and collecting the resulting antibody or fragment thereof; a pharmaceutical composition containing the antibody or a fragment thereof as an active ingredient; and a diagnostic agent containing the antibody or a fragment thereof as an active ingredient. | 12-09-2010 |
20110086906 | METHODS FOR TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH FUNCTIONAL DISORDER OF REGULATORY T CELLS - The inventors examined the role of MK in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, which is a human model for multiple sclerosis. As a result, they discovered that MK has the effect of inhibiting regulatory T cells, and that the autoimmune mechanism induced by type 1 helper T cells can be suppressed by inhibiting MK expression or its activity, thereby increasing the number of regulatory T cells. Furthermore, it was found that diseases associated with the functional disorder of regulatory T cells can be treated with the administration of an inhibitor that inhibits MK expression or activity. | 04-14-2011 |
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20090123246 | MACHINE TOOL WITH TURNABLE MOVABLE SECTION - A moving section of a parallel mechanism is fed having two freedoms. A first moving section base is screw-engaged with a first feed screw shaft, and a second moving section base is screw-engaged with a second feed screw shaft. A spindle head is pivotably connected by a support shaft to the first moving section base. A coupling shaft at an extreme end of an extension lever extending downward from the spindle head is rotatably coupled to a guided piece on a slant linear guide provided on the second moving section base and is coupled to the second moving section base. Thereby, a tilt function maintaining advantages of a tandem drive and being high in rigidity is realized without increasing control axes beyond the number of axes corresponding to tandem axes. | 05-14-2009 |
20110075088 | WIRING BOARD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A wiring board of the present invention has pads disposed in a plurality of rows including: first row pads each being connected to a respective one of the connection wires that is long in length; and second row pads ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110193239 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - Provided is a semiconductor element in which decrease in reliability of wiring is suppressed. A driver IC ( | 08-11-2011 |
20120006584 | WIRING BOARD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A wiring board of the present invention ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120236230 | DEVICE SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Disclosed is a device substrate wherein an insulating layer ( | 09-20-2012 |
20130335940 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND WIRING SUBSTRATE - A wiring substrate ( | 12-19-2013 |
20150029436 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided with: a frame; a display panel, which is fixed to the frame; and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards, which are disposed adjacent to each other, and each of which has one end side pressure bonded to the display panel, and the other end side bent to the frame side, which is the reverse side of the display panel. The display apparatus has adhesive areas wherein a surface of the display panel is adhered and fixed to the frame, the adhesive areas being in areas overlapping the flexible printed circuit boards. In regions among the flexible printed circuit boards adjacent to each other, non-adhesive areas where the surface of the display panel is not adhered and fixed to the frame are provided. | 01-29-2015 |
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20090047043 | IMAGE-FORMING METHOD, MAGNETIC TONER, AND PROCESS UNIT - An image-forming method is provided which can provide stable image density irrespective of use environments and does not cause image defects such as fogging, tailing, or transfer voids, even when being applied to a developing sleeve with a reduced diameter. In the image-forming method, a latent image bearing member and a toner bearing member bearing a magnetic toner on its surface and having inside a unit for generating a magnetic field are placed with a predetermined interval, and an alternating field is applied between the latent image bearing member and the toner bearing member, and an electrostatic latent image borne by the latent image bearing member is developed with the magnetic toner. The toner bearing member has a specific diameter, and the magnetic toner has a specific circularity and a specific compressibility. The total energy of the toner measured with a powder flowability measuring apparatus satisfies a specific value. | 02-19-2009 |
20090092919 | MAGNETIC TONER - To provide a magnetic toner which has superior low-temperature fixing performance and pressure roller anti-staining properties even in various forms of use, has been kept from image defects such as image non-uniformity even during long-time image reproduction and can achieve high-level image quality. In a magnetic toner having toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, the activation energy Ea (kJ/mol) that is determined from a shift factor aT | 04-09-2009 |
20090117477 | MAGNETIC TONER AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - To solve a thin image density and sweeping occurring when a toner carrying member having a small diameter is used, provided is an image-forming method including: a charging step; an electrostatic latent image-forming step; a developing step; a transferring step; and a fixing step, in which a magnetic toner to be used in the method has a specific weight average particle diameter (D4); the magnetic toner has a specific intensity of magnetization in a specific magnetic field; and a surface free energy of a surface of the magnetic toner and a surface free energy of a surface of a toner carrying member to be used in the method satisfy specific relationships. | 05-07-2009 |
20090130580 | MAGNETIC TONER - In a magnetic toner which has magnetic toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, and an inorganic fine powder, (i) the magnetic toner has an average circularity of from 0.950 or more to 1.000 or less, (ii) the magnetic toner has a compressibility of 30 or less, and (iii) the magnetic toner contains boron nitride particles having a median diameter (D50) of from 0.5 μm or more to 8.0 μm or less, as the inorganic fine powder in an amount of from 0.05 part by mass or more to 1.00 part by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the magnetic toner base particles. This provides a magnetic toner with which stable image density can be achieved without regard to service environment and which do not cause any image defects such as fog. | 05-21-2009 |
20090197192 | MAGNETIC TONER - A magnetic toner having magnetic toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, wherein, in the test of dissolution level of the magnetic material, the dissolution percentages S | 08-06-2009 |
20100028795 | TONER - In a toner containing at least a binder resin, a colorant, an ester compound and a low-melting material, the ester compound is an ester of dipentaerythritol with a carboxylic acid having 18 or more to 25 or less carbon atoms, and, where the melting point of the ester compound is represented by Tm | 02-04-2010 |
20100266943 | MAGNETIC TONER - To provide a toner excellent in low-temperature fixability, releasing performance, and development stability in long-term use under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, provided is a magnetic toner including: magnetic toner particles each containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic particles; and an inorganic fine powder, in which: the magnetic particles is a treated magnetic particles treated with a silane compound; the treated magnetic particles has a water adsorption per unit area based on a BET specific surface area of 0.300 mg/m | 10-21-2010 |
20110294056 | MAGNETIC TONER - A magnetic toner has magnetic toner particles, each of the magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and an inorganic fine powder. The magnetic material is prepared by treating the surface of magnetic iron oxide with a silane compound. When the magnetic iron oxide is dispersed in an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid and dissolved until the dissolution proportion of the iron element reaches 5% by mass based on the total amount of the iron element contained in the magnetic iron oxide, the amount of silicon eluted by that point of time is 0.05% by mass or more and 0.50% by mass or less based on the magnetic iron oxide. The magnetic material has a moisture adsorption amount per unit area of 0.30 mg/m | 12-01-2011 |
20110311910 | TONER - To provide a toner which can achieve both low-temperature fixing performance and dot reproducibility and further can obtain images on which any density non-uniformity has been kept from coming about, the toner has toner particles, each of the toner particles has a toner base particle containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent, and an inorganic fine powder; the toner having:
| 12-22-2011 |
20130143154 | TONER - A toner with good low-temperature fixability even in light-pressure type fixing units, which causes no contamination of fixing films and provides images having stable image densities and excellent image quality after long-term use. The toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin, a coloring agent, a release agents (a) and (b) The release agent (a) is a monofunctional or bifunctional ester wax; the release agent (b) is a hydrocarbon wax; a solubility of the release agent (a) into the binder resin is higher than that of the release agent (b). When tetrahydrofuran-soluble components of the toner are subjected to GPC, a proportion of components having a molecular weight of 500 or less is 2.5 area % or less. When the tetrahydrofuran-soluble components at 25° C. are subjected to SEC-MALLS, a weight-average molecular weight Mw thereof is 5,000-100,000, and the Mw and the radius of gyration Rw thereof satisfy 5.0×10 | 06-06-2013 |
20130164671 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND DEVELOPING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a developing apparatus which is less affected by usage environments, has high development efficiency for long term use and can provide a high quality image without image density non-uniformity. | 06-27-2013 |
20140030645 | TONER - Disclosed is a toner which enables a stable image density to be obtained, regardless of the service environment, throughout use in durability tests, and which is able to suppress the occurrence of faulty cleaning. The toner contains both toner particles, which include a binder resin and a colorant, and also silica fine particles. The toner has an average circularity of at least 0.950, a static friction coefficient, with respect to a polycarbonate resin substrate, of at least 0.100 and not more than 0.200, and a coverage ratio X1 of the toner surface by the silica fine particles, as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ESCA), of at least 50.0 area %, and not more than 75.0 area %. | 01-30-2014 |
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20090296123 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing device includes a controlling section that converts visible information, expressed using biaxial orthogonal coordinate data, into polar coordinate data, and binarizes the polar coordinate data to generate binarized polar coordinate data. Next, the controlling section performs landing position correction on the binarized polar coordinate data, and generates ink discharge data in which displacements of landing positions of ink drops, caused by the order in which the ink drops are discharged from discharge nozzles, are corrected. | 12-03-2009 |
20130147984 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR OBTAINING POSITION INFORMATION AND DIRECTION INFORMATION - An image pickup apparatus includes continuous shooting means, position acquisition means, and direction acquisition means, wherein the continuous shooting means performs multiple shooting operations and obtains multiple images, the position acquisition means acquires position information, the direction acquisition means acquires direction information, and in the multiple shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, the position acquisition means does not acquire position information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, and the direction acquisition means acquires direction information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means. | 06-13-2013 |
20150307785 | COKE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A coke manufacturing method includes preparing blended coal by blending coal of at least two types, stirring and mixing the blended coal so as to disintegrate at least a part of pseudo-particles in the blended coal that have been formed by agglomeration of coal particles, and charging the blended coal after stirring and mixing into a coke oven and carbonizing the blended coal so as to manufacture coke. | 10-29-2015 |
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20090258780 | POROUS INORGANIC OXIDE SUPPORT AND HYDROTREATING CATALYST OF CATALYTIC CRACKING GASOLINE USING THE SAME - A porous inorganic oxide support comprising an oxygen-containing carbonaceous material supported thereon, preferably a porous inorganic oxide support wherein the oxygen-containing carbonaceous material is a carbide of an oxygen-containing organic compound, wherein the ratio of the supported carbon amount with respect to the mass of the support for preparing the catalyst is from 0.05 to 0.2, the atomic ratio of the supported hydrogen amount with respect to the supported carbon amount is from 0.4 to 1.0, and the atomic ratio of the supported oxygen amount with respect to the supported carbon amount is from 0.1 to 0.6; and a hydrotreating catalyst of catalytic cracking gasoline which comprises the support and a catalyst containing a Group 8 metal of the periodic table, molybdenum (Mo), phosphorus and sulfur which is supported on the support are useful as a desulfurization catalyst of, for example, catalytic cracking gasoline at a hyperdesulfurized level, because of having functions of suppressing the hydrogenation activity of olefins and minimizing the decrease in the octane number even under reaction conditions with a high desulfurization ratio. | 10-15-2009 |
20130136409 | HOLE-ASSISTED OPTICAL FIBER - A hole-assisted optical fiber includes a core portion and a cladding portion that includes an inner cladding layer, an outer cladding layer, and holes formed around the core portion. A diameter of the core portion is 3 μm to 9.8 μm, a relative refractive index difference of the core portion relative to the outer cladding layer is 0.11% to 0.45%, an outside diameter of the inner cladding layer is 53 μm or less, a relative refractive index difference of the inner cladding layer relative to the outer cladding layer is a negative value, −0.30% or more, a diameter of each hole is 2.4 μm to 4.0 μm, a hole occupancy rate is 17% to 48%, a bending loss at a wavelength of 1625 nm when bent at a radius of 5 mm is 1 dB/turn or less, and a cut-off wavelength is 1550 nm or less. | 05-30-2013 |
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20110122337 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A drive IC chip ( | 05-26-2011 |
20110199569 | WIRING BOARD AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A wiring board of the present invention ( | 08-18-2011 |
20120080789 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP AND MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF THE SAME (as amended) - Provided is a semiconductor chip having a narrowed pitch between terminals, the chip being capable of suppressing occurrence of poor connection between the chip and a substrate on which the chip is mounted. In an LSI chip including an input bump group, which is composed of a plurality of input bumps aligned in a line along one long side of its bottom surface, and an output bump group, which is composed of a plurality of output bumps arranged in a staggered manner along the other long side of the bottom surface, a dummy bump group is provided in an area between an area where the input bump group is provided and an area where the output bump group is provided, the dummy bump group including a plurality of rectangular dummy bumps which have long side extending along a direction perpendicular to the long sides of the bottom surface. | 04-05-2012 |
20140092338 | DISPLAY MODULE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display module | 04-03-2014 |
20150279792 | DRIVE CHIP AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - This drive chip has a configuration that is provided with: a base main body; two terminal groups that are respectively disposed along the base main body sides in the longitudinal direction of the base main body, said sides facing each other; a narrow-pitch section in one terminal group wherein terminals are disposed in a zigzag manner in two or more rows, said narrow-pitch section having a narrow terminal pitch in the longitudinal direction; a rough pitch section in the one terminal group, said rough pitch section having a terminal pitch in the longitudinal direction wider than that of the narrow pitch section; and a dummy bump that is disposed between the two terminal groups, said dummy bump being disposed parallel to the rough pitch section. | 10-01-2015 |
20150334839 | COMPONENT-FIXING METHOD, CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention involves forming wiring sections on a substrate capable of UV-ray transmission, and fixing a component to be electrically connected to the wiring sections onto the substrate using a UV-curable ACF. When doing so, fluidity in the UV-curable ACF is produced by applying pressure to the component, and UV rays are directly projected from the surface of the substrate even onto the UV-curable ACF areas shielded by the wiring sections. The UV-curable ACF is made to be fluid by applying pressure to the component after increasing fluidity of the UV-curable ACF by heating. | 11-19-2015 |
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20120237223 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER HAVING OPTICAL RECEPTACLE ARRANGED DIAGONALLY TO LONGITUDINAL AXIS - An optical transceiver capable of narrowing an extra space for an external optical fiber is disclosed. The optical transceiver of an embodiment provides an optical receptacle with a port, to which the external optical fiber is to be inserted, headed for a direction in diagonal to the longitudinal axis of the optical transceiver. In another embodiment, the optical transceiver provides an optical receptacle capable of turning the port thereof. | 09-20-2012 |
20130022360 | OPTICAL MODULE ASSEMBLED ON CIRCUIT BOARD VIA HOLDER - An optical transceiver having an optical subassembly electrically connected to a circuit board with an RF connector is disclosed. The optical transceiver further provides a holder for support the RF connector. The circuit board is held by a leg and an arm each being provided in the holder, and putting the circuit board therebetween. | 01-24-2013 |
20140178481 | Water-In-Oil Type Emulsion Sunscreen Cosmetics - The present invention provides water-in-oil type emulsion sunscreen cosmetics that achieve an excellent UV blocking effect, and have excellent effects in the prevention and inhibition of discoloration (discoloration to red). The water-in-oil emulsion sunscreen cosmetic according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: (a) octocrylene; (b) hydrophobized zinc oxide; (c) cationic surfactant; and (d) silica. | 06-26-2014 |
20150185423 | OPTICAL COUPLING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER INSTALLING THE SAME - A simplified optical coupling system having two optical connectors is disclosed. The optical coupling system includes a male connector with a ferrule, a female connector with another ferrule, and a sleeve to receive the ferrules in respective ends thereof. One of connectors provides a latch and a coil spring. The latch engages with a flange of the other connector, and the coil spring put between the flange of the connector having the latch and a base of the latch to secure the engagement of the latch with the flange. | 07-02-2015 |
20150293315 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER INSTALLING MT FERRULE TO MATE WITH MPO CONNECTOR - A pluggable optical transceiver with the CFP type and the MT ferrule is disclosed. The optical transceiver provides in a rear of the optical receptacle a mechanism to push frontward the MT ferrule set in the optical receptacle and to shield the inside of the optical transceiver. Inner fibers connecting the MT ferrule with another MT ferrule assembled with optical devices pass the mechanism, which may be a metal plate with the elastic function and/or a coil spring combined with a holder to hold the MT ferrule. | 10-15-2015 |
20150338588 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER HAVING PLUG BOARD INDEPENDENT OF CIRCUIT BOARD - An optical transceiver that provides a plug board independent of a circuit board is disclosed. The optical transceiver further includes a holder to hold both of the plug board and the circuit board in respective positions. The holder provides a first support to support the plug board in a side thereof, and a second support to support the circuit board in a side thereof. Because the holder supports the plug board and the circuit board in respective sides thereof, the holder does not reduce a space for mounting electronic circuit on the circuit board and not interfere with the function of the plug board. | 11-26-2015 |
20160103286 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER IMPLEMENTING ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER - An optical transceiver that installs an optical modulator with the Mach-Zehnder type and made of primarily semiconductor materials, and an Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) is disclosed. The EDFA and the MZ modulator, in addition to a wavelength tunable laser diode, an intelligent coherent receiver, and a polarization maintaining splitter, are installed within a compact case following the standard of CFP2. | 04-14-2016 |
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20140315125 | MAGNETIC TONER - The magnetic toner contains magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic body, and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles comprise metal oxide fine particles, wherein the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles. In addition, the coverage ratio of the magnetic toner particle surface by the inorganic fine particles resides in a prescribed range for this magnetic toner; the binder resin is a styrene resin; the weight-average molecular weight and radius of gyration of the magnetic toner reside in a prescribed relationship; and the viscosity of the magnetic toner at 110° C. resides in a prescribed range. | 10-23-2014 |
20140335450 | MAGNETIC TONER - A magnetic toner is provided that exhibits an excellent electrostatic offset resistance both initially and after long-term use. The magnetic toner contains: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin and a magnetic body; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain a prescribed metal oxide fine particle in a prescribed proportion; the magnetic toner has prescribed numerical value ranges for a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particle surface covered by the inorganic fine particles and for a coverage ratio B by the inorganic fine particles that are fixed to the magnetic toner particle surface; the magnetic toner particle contains a crystalline polyester; and measurement of the magnetic toner with a differential scanning calorimeter provides a characteristic differential scanning calorimetric curve. | 11-13-2014 |
20140377696 | TONER - A toner comprising toner particles which comprise a binder resin and a colorant, and also inorganic fine particles as external additives, wherein the inorganic fine particles are silica fine particles and a group 2 element titanate fine particles, the inorganic fine particles have specific particle diameters, the silica fine particles have a coverage ratio X1 on the surfaces of the toner particles, which is not less than 40.0 surface area % and not more than 75.0 surface area %, when the theoretical coverage ratio by the silica fine particles is X2, the diffusion index defined as “diffusion index=X1/X2” satisfies the condition: diffusion index≧−0.0042×X1+0.62, and the external additives have an embedding ratio on the toner particles, which satisfies a specific range. | 12-25-2014 |
20150185643 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, DEVELOPING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention provides a developing apparatus including a toner, a toner carrying member and a regulating member, wherein the toner is a magnetic toner including a toner particle, a first fine silica particle having a number average primary particle diameter of 5 to 20 nm and a second fine silica particle having a number average primary particle diameter of 40 to 200 nm, the second fine silica particle is a fine silica particle produced by a sol-gel method, the toner has a total energy of 270 to 355 mJ/(g/ml), the toner carrying member has a substrate, an elastic layer and a surface layer including a urethane resin, and the urethane resin has a partial structure derived from a reaction of a particular amine type compound with a polyisocyanate. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185644 | MAGNETIC TONER - It is intended to provide magnetic toner that produces a stable image density in long-term use and can prevent ghosting under conditions of low-temperature and low-humidity. The present invention provides magnetic toner including magnetic toner particles each containing a binder resin, a magnetic material and a releasing agent, and silica fine particles, wherein the silica fine particles include silica fine particles A and B, the silica fine particles A have a number-average particle size of 5-20 nm as primary particles, the silica fine particles B are produced by a sol-gel method, and have a number-average particle size of 40-200 nm as primary particles, an abundance ratio of secondary particles of the silica fine particles B is 5-40% by number, and a coverage ratio X1 of the surface of the magnetic toner particles with the silica fine particles determined by ESCA is 40.0-75.0% by area. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185648 | TONER - It is intended to provide toner that has favorable fixability, releasability and few negative effects on images. The present invention provides toner including toner particles each containing a binder resin, a colorant and an ester wax, and silica fine particles, wherein: the ester wax contains a plurality of esters represented by R1-COO—(CH | 07-02-2015 |
20150185655 | IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE-FORMING METHOD, DEVELOPING APPARATUS, AND DEVELOPING METHOD - Provided is a developing apparatus, including toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, a toner carrier for carrying the toner, and a regulating member for regulating a layer thickness of the toner carried by the toner carrier. The toner carrier is placed to be brought into contact with the electrostatic latent image bearing member. The toner carrier includes a substrate, an elastic layer, and a surface layer containing a urethane resin. The urethane resin has a partial structure derived from a reaction between a compound represented by the structural formula (1) and a polyisocyanate. The toner contains toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine particles. The toner has a weight average particle diameter (D4) of from 9.5 μm to 14.0 μm. The toner has a porosity of 50 or more and 56 or less. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185656 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, DEVELOPING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The developing apparatus includes a toner, a developing container, a developing roller, and a toner layer thickness controlling member,
| 07-02-2015 |
20150185657 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, DEVELOPING METHOD, IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD - Provided is a developing apparatus, including: a toner for developing an electrostatic latent image; a toner carrier for carrying the toner; and a regulating member for regulating a layer thickness of the toner carried by the toner carrier, in which: the toner includes a toner containing toner particles each containing a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine particles present on surfaces of the toner particles; the toner has a dielectric loss factor (∈″) at a frequency of 100 kHz and a temperature of 30° C. of 0.03 pF/m or more and 0.30 pF/m or less; the toner carrier includes a substrate, an elastic layer, and a surface layer containing a urethane resin; and the urethane resin has a partial structure derived from a reaction between a compound represented by the structural formula (1) and a polyisocyanate. | 07-02-2015 |
20150185658 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, DEVELOPING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A developing apparatus and a developing method that significantly suppress generation of fogging and form a high-quality electrophotographic images under any environments such as a high temperature and high humidity environment and a low temperature and low humidity environment are provided. | 07-02-2015 |