Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110033794 | TONER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner containing a binder, a colorant, and a wax having a molecular chain consisting of C—H bond and C—C bond, wherein the mass reduction of the wax at 165° C. is 10% by mass or less, and the total amount of the wax in the toner measured by a DSC method is 1% by mass to 8% by mass, wherein a ratio, Sbet/SF, of a BET specific surface area (Sbet) of the toner to an average circularity (SF) of the toner is 1.0 m | 02-10-2011 |
20110255899 | TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner, including a binder; a colorant; and a wax including a molecular chain constituted of only a C—H bond and a C—C bond, and having a melting point of from 50 to 78° C. and a melt viscosity of from 5 to 15 mPa·S at 140° C., wherein the toner has a weight reduction rate of from 0.001 to 0.1% by weight/min when measured by TGA (Thermogarvimetric Analysis) method in an atmosphere at 165° C. for 10 min. | 10-20-2011 |
20110262856 | TONER CONTAINING CRYSTALLINE POLYESTER - A toner including a binder resin which contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the crystalline polyester resin has at least two diffraction peaks in a range of 20°<2θ<25° as detected by X-ray diffraction measurement, and has a melting point which is 60° C. or higher but lower than 80° C., and wherein the diffraction peaks each have a half width which is less than 1.0°. | 10-27-2011 |
20110305986 | TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the colorant contains a mixed crystal of a C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185 and a C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139, and wherein a mass ratio of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185 to the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139 (mass of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 185/mass of the C. I. PIGMENT YELLOW 139) in the toner is 95/5 to 50/50. | 12-15-2011 |
20120064445 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER FOR DEVELOPING LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGES - A toner which contains: toner base particles having Dv of 4.0-6.0 μm; and two or more additives on surfaces of the toner base particles, where the additives contains Additives A and B, wherein the toner base particles are obtained by the method containing: dispersing, in an aqueous medium, an oil phase in which at least one of a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin is contained in an organic solvent, to prepare a dispersion liquid; and removing the organic solvent from the dispersion liquid, and wherein the Additive A has the largest average primary particle diameter in the additives and has CA of 5-10% where the CA is determined by the formula A, and the Additive B has the smallest average primary particle diameter in the additives and has CB of 45-100% where the CB is determined by the formula B. | 03-15-2012 |
20120264043 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - An electrostatic image developing toner including: a binder resin; a colorant; and a wax, wherein the intensity ratio of an absorbance at 2,850 cm | 10-18-2012 |
20130022371 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE DEVELOPMENT - To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm | 01-24-2013 |
20130224648 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER PARTICLES AND DEVELOPER - Electrostatic image developing toner particles including: a crystalline polyester resin; a non-crystalline polyester resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the electrostatic image developing toner particles have a glass transition temperature of 40° C. to 60° C. where the glass transition temperature is measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and wherein the electrostatic image developing toner particles have an adhesive force between the toner particles of 1.4 mN to 2.2 mN where the adhesive force between the toner particles is measured after the electrostatic image developing toner particles have been stored at 50° C. | 08-29-2013 |
20130243488 | TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including: toner base particles; and external additive, the toner base particles each comprising binder resin and colorant, wherein the external additive comprises coalesced particles, the coalesced particles are each a non-spherical secondary particle in which primary particles are coalesced together, and an index of a particle size distribution of the coalesced particles is expressed by Formula (1): | 09-19-2013 |
20130244155 | TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the external additive comprises non-spherical particles and spherical particles, wherein the non-spherical particles are each a secondary particle in which spherical primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the non-spherical particles and the spherical particles in the external additive satisfy a relationship expressed by the following formula (1): | 09-19-2013 |
20130244156 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the toner includes the inorganic fine particles as an external additive on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the toner base particles have a BET specific surface area of 2.5 m | 09-19-2013 |
20130244158 | TONER SET, DEVELOPER SET, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner set, including: a transparent toner including a binder resin a, a releasing agent a and no colorant; and one or more color toners, each including a binder resin b, a colorant b and a releasing agent b, wherein the binder resin a includes a non-crystalline resin α and a crystalline resin α, the binder resin b includes a non-crystalline resin β and a crystalline resin β, the releasing agent a has an average particle diameter as a long diameter of 0.2 μm to 2.0 μm, and there is a relationship of 1 | 09-19-2013 |
20140072349 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device, including: a developer bearing member, which is disposed opposite to an electrostatic latent image bearing member and which bears thereon a developer for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrostatic latent image bearing member and conveys the developer to a developing region, wherein the developer includes a toner and a carrier, the toner containing: a toner base containing a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains coalescent particles each made up of a plurality of coalescing primary particles, and wherein a work function Wc of the carrier and a work function Ws of the developer bearing member satisfy a relationship of the following formula (1): | 03-13-2014 |
20140140731 | TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner including: a binder resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent has an endothermic peak temperature of 60° C. to 80° C. at the second temperature rising in differential scanning calorimetry, and wherein the releasing agent is an ester wax which satisfies the following expressions (1) and (2): 1.1 Pa·s≦η*a≦2.0 Pa·s . . . Expression (1) 0.001≦η*b/η*a≦1.00 . . . Expression (2) where in Expressions (1) and (2), η*a denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 6.28 rad/s, and η*b denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 62.8 rad/s. | 05-22-2014 |
20140220485 | TONER, DEVELOPER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner, which contains silica particles containing first silica particles, and second silica particles, wherein the toner is a toner produced by depositing the silica particles on surfaces of base particles, the first silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 75 nm to 250 nm, the second silica particles have an average primary particle diameter of 10 nm to 50 nm, a mass ratio of the first silica particles to the base particles is 0.010 to 0.040, a mass ratio of the second silica particles to the base particles is 0.005 to 0.030, a liberation ratio of the silica particles from the toner by a ultrasonic vibration method is 5% by mass to 20% by mass, and an amount of particles having primary particle diameters of 30 nm or smaller in the silica particles librated from the toner by the ultrasonic vibration method is 20% by number or less. | 08-07-2014 |
20140234767 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner, including: toner base particles including a polyester resin as a binder resin; and an external additive on the surface of the toner base particles. The external additive includes silica. The silica is produced by sol-gel method, and is aspherical. The percentage of change in the specific surface area of the toner when it is stored under high-temperature, high-humidity conditions is from 25% to 45%. | 08-21-2014 |
20140348546 | TONER HOUSING CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Toner housing container includes: container body mountable on toner conveying device and housing toner supplied into toner conveying device; conveying portion provided in container body and conveying toner from longer direction one end of container body to other end at which container opening portion is provided; pipe receiving port provided at container opening portion and receiving conveying pipe fixed to toner conveying device; and uplifting portion to move toner conveyed by conveying portion toward toner receiving port of conveying pipe. Toner has loose apparent density of 0.28 g/cm | 11-27-2014 |