Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090075195 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND TONER - A toner is provided including a mother toner including a crystalline polyester resin, an amorphous resin, and a wax, and an external additive in an amount of from 0.30 to 0.55 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the mother toner. The toner satisfies the following equation 0.36≦(2.77×C/R+1.97×W/R)/X≦1.85, wherein each of C, W, and R represents a height of an absorbance peak specific to the crystalline polyester resin, the wax, and the amorphous resin, respectively, measured by a FT-IR ATR method, and X represents an amount (parts by weight) of the external additive. An image forming method and apparatus using the toner are also provided. | 03-19-2009 |
20090123857 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the latent electrostatic image bearing member, at least three developing units each configured to develop the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image on a recording medium, and an image fixing unit configured to the transferred image on the recording medium, in which the developing units respectively include any one of a yellow toner, a magenta toner, and a cyan toner, the magenta toner includes C.I. pigment red 269, and the yellow toner includes C.I pigment yellow 180 or C.I pigment yellow 155. | 05-14-2009 |
20090142677 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image forming method including electrostatic image forming step, developing step, transferring step, fixing step and oil application step for applying an oil to a fixing member, wherein the toner includes a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, and the relationship (A2/A1)×100<200 is satisfied, wherein A1 represents the area of the oil dropped on a pellet of the toner measured 30 seconds after dropping the oil, and A2 represents the area of the dropped oil measured 24 hours after dropping the oil. Alternatively, the relationships (X1−X2)<0.5 atomic percent, X1>1.0 atomic percent, and X2>1.0 atomic percent, are satisfied, wherein X1 and X2 represent amounts of Si atoms of the silicone oil measured by subjecting the toner image to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy at times 5 minutes and 24 hours, respectively, after fixing the toner image. | 06-04-2009 |
20090155706 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, TONER, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus including a fixing device to fix a toner image on a recording medium including a heat roller and an oil applicator to apply a silicone oil to the heat roller, having a system speed of from 500 to 1700 mm/sec, and using a toner including a binder resin including a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin; a fatty acid amide compound; and a colorant, wherein a ratio (W/R) of a height (W) of a peak at a wavenumber of 1638 cm | 06-18-2009 |
20100068645 | Carrier for developing electrostatic latent image, two-component developer, supplemental developer, process cartridge, and image forming method - A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image which includes a core material and a resin coating layer provided on the core material. The resin coating layer includes a resin and a particulate tin oxide, and the surface of the particulate tin oxide is coated with carbon. | 03-18-2010 |
20100233613 | CARRIER - A carrier which is capable of avoiding excess blocking of the carrier particles at the time of forming a covering layer and is excellent in durability, a developer containing the carrier, and a developer container containing the developer, as well as an image forming method and a process cartridge which use the developer are provided. A carrier including at least a core material particle and a covering layer, a surface of the core material particle being covered with the covering layer, wherein the covering layer contains a condensate which is obtained by condensation of a silicone resin having at least one of a silanol group and a functional group which can be converted to the silanol group by hydrolysis, using a titanium diisopropoxy bis(ethylaceto-acetate) catalyst. | 09-16-2010 |
20100239975 | CARRIER FOR USE IN DEVELOPER DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, DEVELOPER USING THE CARRIER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE DEVELOPER - The carrier includes a particulate core material having magnetism; and a resin layer located on the surface of the particulate core material. The resin layer is prepared by forming a layer including a copolymer, which includes a unit (A) having a specific acrylic siloxane structure, a unit (B) having a specific acrylic silicone structure having a crosslinking ability, and a unit (C) having a specific acrylic structure in a specific ratio, on the particulate core material, and then subjecting the layer to a heat treatment to crosslink the layer. | 09-23-2010 |
20110086307 | CARRIER FOR TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - A carrier, including a magnetic particulate core material and a resin layer on the core material, wherein the resin layer includes a resin obtained by heat treatment of a copolymer including a site derived from a monomer component having the following formula (1) and a site derived from a monomer component having the following formula (2), and includes a cross-linked material obtained by hydrolysis of the copolymer to produce a silanol group and condensation using an organotitanium compound: | 04-14-2011 |
20110091245 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image forming method including electrostatic image forming step, developing step, transferring step, fixing step and oil application step for applying an oil to a fixing member, wherein the toner includes a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, and the relationship (A | 04-21-2011 |
20110091802 | CARRIER, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE CARRIER, DEVELOPER USING THE CARRIER, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE DEVELOPER - The carrier is used for a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image, and includes a particulate magnetic core material; and a cover layer located on a surface of the core material and including a crosslinked material and barium sulfate. The cover layer is formed by applying a coating medium including barium sulfate, a copolymer including a unit (A) having a specific acrylic siloxane structure including a tris(trialkylsiloxy)silanyl group and a unit (B) having a specific acrylic silicone structure having a crosslinking ability, and a condensation reaction catalyst, heating the applied medium to a temperature of from 100° C. to 230° C. so that the copolymer is hydrolyzed to produce a material having a silanol group, and the material and the catalyst are subjected to a condensation reaction to form the crosslinked material. | 04-21-2011 |
20110268474 | TONER, DEVELOPER INCLUDING THE TONER, AND DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER - A toner including toner particles including a binder resin containing at least one polyester resin comprising an inorganic tin (II) compound and an external additive including a particulate inorganic material having a volume average particle diameter greater than 70 nm and less than 300 nm. The binder resin preferably includes a polyester resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 5,000 to 50,000 and another resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 200,000 to 400,000. A developer including the toner; and a developing device, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge, which form toner images using the toner are also provided. | 11-03-2011 |