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20090035688 | TONER, AND TONER PRODUCTION PROCESS - In a chart of molecular weight distribution measured of a toner, i) the toner has a main peak in the region of molecular weight of 16,000 to 60,000, and ii) where the molecular weight at the main peak is represented by M1, and where the height at the molecular weight M1 is represented by H(M1), the height at a molecular weight of 4,000 by H(4000) and the height at a molecular weight of 15,000 by H(15000), the H(4000), the H(15000) and the H(M1) satisfy a specific proportion. The toner has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 15,000 to 80,000, and, in an endothermic chart, i) the toner has an endothermic main peak in the range of 40 to 1300C, and ii) the calorimetric integral value represented by the peak area of the endothermic main peak is 10 to 35 J per 1 g of the toner. | 02-05-2009 |
20090087768 | Non-Magnetic Toner - An object of the present invention is to provide a toner excellent in fixing ability and developing ability. Provided is a non-magnetic toner including: toner particles each containing at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax component; and an inorganic fine powder, wherein: the toner has a specific storage elastic modulus at each of 110 C and 150 C; when a temperature at which a differential curve of a temperature and the common logarithm LogG′ of a storage elastic modulus G′ shows the minimum value in the temperature region of 60 to 130 C is denoted by T0, a straight line having the largest gradient out of straight lines each connecting points on the differential curve at temperatures of T0+a and (T0+a)+1 (C) [where a represents an integer of 0 to 9] is denoted by A, a straight line having the smallest gradient out of straight lines each connecting points on the differential curve at temperatures of T0+b (C) and (T0+b)+10 (C) [where b represents an integer of 0 or more] is denoted by B, and a straight line having the largest gradient out of straight lines each connecting points on the differential curve at temperatures of T0+c and (T0+c)+10 (C) [where c represents an integer larger than “a value b when a straight line B is given”] is denoted by C, the relationship of 1C ? ¢TA (from T0 to the point of intersection of the straight lines A and B) ? 20 C and the relationship of 100 C ? T | 04-02-2009 |
20090130582 | TONER AND IMAGE FORMING PROCESS - A toner which has i) toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant and ii) a fatty acid metal salt composition as an external additive. The fatty acid metal salt composition contains a nonionic surface-active agent and a fatty acid metal salt. This toner and an image forming process making use of the toner can keep the toner from adhering to a toner carrying member throughout running, promise a stable chargeability of the toner and can keep any deterioration of halftone image quality from being caused by excess charging of the toner and any image fog from being caused by insufficient charging of the toner. | 05-21-2009 |
20110053073 | TONER - A toner is provided which is excellent in development stability in both a low-temperature, low-humidity environment and a high-temperature, high-humidity environment over a long time period. The toner includes toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, and a fatty acid metal salt. The fatty acid metal salt has a volume-based median diameter (D50s) of 0.15 μm or more and 0.65 μm or less, and the liberation ratio of the fatty acid metal salt in the toner is 1.0% or more and 25.0% or less. | 03-03-2011 |
20110097657 | TONER - An object of the present invention is to provide a toner in which the problems in the techniques described are solved. That is, the object is to provide a toner which has an excellent charging characteristic regardless of the environment and which achieves high image quality over a long period of time. | 04-28-2011 |
20110097660 | TONER - Provided is a toner in which faulty transfer under an extremely-low-temperature, low-humidity environment hardly occurs, including toner particles and a zeolite as an external additive, in which a ratio of the alminium atoms to a total of the silicon atoms and the aluminium atoms contained in the zeolite is 0.2 to 24.0%. | 04-28-2011 |
20110305989 | METHOD OF PRODUCING TONER - A method of stably producing a toner is provided. This method provides a long-term stabilization of material dispersion in a colorant-dispersed solution and inhibits segregation of the material and provides a more microfine and more uniform dispersion of the colorant in the toner, and moreover produces a toner that has a sharp toner particle diameter distribution. This method of producing toner has at least a colorant dispersion step of obtaining a colorant-dispersed solution by dispersing a pigment-containing colorant in a liquid mixture that contains the colorant and a dissolved resin solution or a polymerizable monomer, wherein the liquid mixture contains a nonionic surfactant and the nonionic surfactant has at least an oxyalkylene group and has a hydrophile-lipophile balance value (HLB value) of 9.0 or more and 17.0 or less. | 12-15-2011 |
20120315574 | TONER - A toner is provided that exhibits a high long-term image stability even during high-speed printing and that also exhibits an excellent environmental stability. The toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the nonionic surfactant has an oxyethylene group (EO) and an oxypropylene group (PO) and has a ratio of the number of moles of the oxypropylene group to the number of moles of the oxyethylene group (PO/EO) of at least 0.01 and not more than 5.00; and when A (μg/g) is defined as a nonionic surfactant content on the surface of the toner that can be extracted by methanol from 1 g of the toner and B (m | 12-13-2012 |
20130224647 | TONER - Provided is a toner manufactured in an aqueous solvent, whereby a satisfactory image density can be obtained and the toner laid-on level on a recording medium can be reduced with a normal added concentration of pigment without adding a large quantity of pigment to the toner. The toner is manufactured in an aqueous medium by the suspension polymerization or dissolution suspension method and contains a binder resin, a pigment and an azo compound. The azo compound is a specific azo compound, and the absolute value of the difference in zeta potential between the binder resin and the azo compound is 25 mV or less. | 08-29-2013 |
20130244165 | TONER - A toner is provided that, even in a small amount thereof, gives a satisfactory image density and that is free of image problems, e.g., fogging and offset resistance, even during long-term use and in a high-temperature, high-humidity environment. The toner contains a binder resin, a pigment, and a prescribed azo compound wherein, designating as (A) the solubility of the azo compound in a toluene-hexane solubility test and as (B) the solubility of the binder resin constituting the toner in the toluene-hexane solubility test, the (A) and the (B) satisfy the relationship |(B)−(A)|≦60. | 09-19-2013 |
20150056549 | TONER - The present invention is a toner including toner particles prepared by forming particles of a polymerizable monomer composition including a polymerizable monomer, a pigment, a pigment dispersant and a crystalline polyester resin in an aqueous medium, and polymerizing the polymerizable monomer, wherein the polymerizable monomer is a polymerizable monomer for preparing a vinyl copolymer, the difference in an SP value between the pigment dispersant and the crystalline polyester resin is −1.5 to +0.8, the difference in an SP value between the pigment dispersant an the vinyl copolymer is −1.1 to +1.2, the pigment dispersant has a polymer component and an adsorbable component adsorbed to the pigment, the polymer component is a vinyl polymer, the polymer component of the pigment dispersant has a number average molecular weight of 3,000 to 20,000, and a rate of adsorption of the pigment dispersant to the pigment is 30% or more. | 02-26-2015 |
20150241806 | TONER - A toner has a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a charge control resin, wherein the charge control resin is a polymer that contains a unit A and a unit B, the unit A is a unit derived from 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, the unit B is a unit derived from an electron donor compound that has a polymerizable unsaturated group, and a molar ratio between the unit A and the unit B is from 1.0 to 10.0. | 08-27-2015 |
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20090317597 | NANOSTRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a nanostructure on an upper surface of which a small-diameter carbon nanotube (CNT) is formed and which improves an adhesive strength between a substrate and the CNT while controlling an orientation of the CNT, and a method for manufacturing the nanostructure. The nanostructure includes a substrate | 12-24-2009 |
20100086837 | ENERGY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides an energy device including a carbon nanotube electrode which prevents a carbon nanotube from peeling from an electric conductor. The energy device includes rolled electrode bodies, wherein at least one of the electrode bodies is formed such that a carbon nanotube layer is formed on the electric conductor, and concave regions are formed in a stripe shape on the carbon nanotube layer so as to extend in a direction parallel to a roll axis. | 04-08-2010 |
20100178564 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a highly reliable energy storage device capable of preventing a reaction current from flowing in a carbon nanotube electrode by ionizing a catalyst metal or a substrate metal to cause the metal to flow out to an electrolytic solution. An energy storage device of the present invention includes: at least a pair of electrode bodies that are a cathode and an anode; and an electrolytic solution. At least one of the electrode bodies is configured such that a layer of carbon nanotubes is formed on an electric conductor. A coupling region where one ends of the carbon nanotubes are coupled to and electrically connected to the electric conductor and a non-coupling region where ends of the carbon nanotubes are not coupled to the electric conductor are formed on a surface of the electric conductor. The carbon nanotubes having one ends connected to the coupling region are toppled to cover a surface of the non-coupling region. | 07-15-2010 |
20110149465 | ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER CAPACITOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An electric double layer capacitor | 06-23-2011 |
20120028123 | CARBON NANOTUBE FORMING SUBSTRATE, CARBON NANOTUBE COMPLEX, ENERGY DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ENERGY DEVICE, AND APPARATUS INCLUDING ENERGY DEVICE - Provided are a substrate on which carbon nanotubes each having one end connected to the substrate can be formed at a high synthetic rate and from which the carbon nanotubes are less likely to be peeled off. The substrate is a substrate for forming the carbon nanotubes and includes a buffer layer | 02-02-2012 |
20140093773 | ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTRODE, AND ENERGY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND TRANSPORTATION DEVICE INCLUDING ELECTRODE - Disclosed herein is an electrode for energy devices such as electric double layer capacitors, which includes conductive fibers made of carbon, such as carbon nanotubes, as an electrode active material and has a high capacitance. The electrode for energy devices includes a current collector and a plurality of conductive fibers (e.g., carbon nanotubes) provided to stand on a surface of the current collector so that their one ends are electrically connected to the surface of the current collector, wherein the conductive fibers are made of carbon and have carboxyl group-containing functional groups or oxo group-containing functional groups and hydroxyl group-containing functional groups attached thereto. The conductive fibers preferably carry a quinone group-containing compound. | 04-03-2014 |