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Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Numazu-Shi JP

Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Numazu-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080213682TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE TONER - Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic image, comprising particles of oil phase containing at least a toner composition and/or toner composition precursor in an aqueous medium, wherein the toner composition and/or toner composition precursor comprises an organic-modified layered inorganic mineral prepared by modifying at least partially an ion of a layered inorganic mineral into an organic ion, and the organic ion-modification ratio X satisfies the relation of 10009-04-2008
20080213684CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide a carrier for electrophotographic developer including core particles and a cover layer covering the particles, wherein at least one of the carrier to be supplied in a developing apparatus and carrier contained in the developing apparatus has a weight average particle diameter Dw of 22 μm or more and 32 μm or less, a ratio Dw/Dp of the weight average particle diameter Dw to the number average particle diameter Dp that satisfies the relationship 1.00≦Dw/Dp≦1.20, particles whose particle diameter x (μm) is within a range of 009-04-2008
20090041510IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided containing an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, and a developer control member being magnetic. The electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member is developed with a toner to form a toner image. The carrier includes magnetic core particles having a cover layer on the surfaces thereof, including fine particles having a weight average particle diameter of from 0.02 to 0.5 μm. The carrier has a weight average particle diameter of from 22 to 32 μm, and a ratio (E10/E100) of from 1.00 to 1.20. The ratio (E10/E100) is a ratio of a total energy (E10) to a total energy (E100) at a leading edge speed of the blade of 10 mm/s and 100 mm/s, respectively, measured using a power rheometer at an angle of approach of −5°.02-12-2009
20090074450IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; and a developing device including a developer bearing member, a developer containing portion, a developer supplying passage supplying the developer to the developer bearing member while feeding the developer in a direction, and a developer agitating passage feeding a mixture of the developer fed through the developer supplying passage without used for developing, and the developer used for developing, in the opposite direction. The developer supplying passage, and developer agitating passage are separated from each other except for at least both the end portions. The developer includes a toner and a carrier having a cover layer thereon, which includes a binder resin and a particulate material. The ratio of the volume average particle diameter of the particulate material to the average thickness of the resinous portion of the cover layer is greater than 1 and less than 10.03-19-2009
20090232526Developer cartridge and image formation apparatus - A developer cartridge is provided, which contains developer made of toner and carrier and is detachably mounted in a body of an image formation apparatus. The developer cartridge is configured to include an ID chip in which a carrier content rate of the developer contained in an inner container of the developer cartridge is stored.09-17-2009
20100068645Carrier 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
20100233613CARRIER - 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
20100239975CARRIER 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
20110086307CARRIER 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
20110091802CARRIER, 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

Patent applications by Hitoshi Iwatsuki, Numazu-Shi JP