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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8114562 | Two-component developer, replenishing developer, and image-forming method A two-component developer containing a yellow toner and a magnetic carrier, wherein the yellow toner has the characteristics: (i) when the concentration of the yellow toner in a solution of the yellow toner in chloroform is represented by Cy (mg/ml) and the absorban... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8043782 | Toner for electrophotography A toner for electrophotography is provided including a binder resin, a coloring agent, a charge controlling agent, and a releasing agent, wherein when the temperature of the toner is in the range from a temperature 40° C. lower than a fixing temperature of the tone... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7977022 | Developer, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus The invention provides a developer having at least a toner, an aeration ratio (AR) of the developer measured by a powder rheometer being in a range of about 5.0 to about 10.0. It is preferable that the developer further contains an external additive of silica partic... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7935470 | Toner for electrophotography A toner for electrophotography is provided including a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a release agent, wherein a glass transition temperature (Tg) is over 55° C., a molecular weight distribution (MWD) is in the range of about 4.5 to 5.5 when ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927776 | Toner for electrophotography A toner for electrophotography is provided that includes a binder resin, a colorant, a charge control agent, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a complex viscosity (η) of about 4.0×101 Pa·s to about 1.6×103 Pa·s at a temperature ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7910277 | Predicting relative humidity sensitivity of developer materials A method of predicting a Lewis acid-base relative humidity (RH) ratio in a two-component developer comprised of at least a toner and a carrier including selecting a candidate toner, selecting a candidate carrier, and determining the Lewis acid and Lewis base constan... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7892717 | Toner for electrostatic image development, electrostatic image developer and image forming method using the same The invention provides a toner for electrostatic image development having at least a binder resin and a colorant and having an existence ratio of an IA Group element, from which hydrogen is excluded, measured by XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) in a range of a... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7867683 | Toner, method of producing the same, developer, and image forming apparatus A toner that when the complex elastic modulus measured at an angular frequency of 6.28 rad/sec., and a strain amount of 0.3% is 1×106 Pa or more and 1×108 Pa or less, the tangent loss is 0.5 or more and 1.8 or less. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7824834 | Toner for developing electrostatic image, method for preparing the toner, and image forming method and apparatus using the toner A toner including a binder resin; a colorant; a release agent; and a modified layered inorganic material in which at least part of interlayer ions is modified with an organic ion, wherein the toner has a volume average particle diameter (Dv) of 3 to 7 μm and a rati... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7811736 | Image fixing method An image-fixing method for heat-fixing a toner image, by feeding an transfer medium carrying the toner image between a heating unit heated by an induction-heating process and a pressurizing unit placed to press against the heating unit, wherein | 10/12/2010 |
| 7741000 | Image forming method Disclosed is a method for forming color image, in which one of the yellow, magenta, cyan and black toners is a high water content toner, and one of the yellow, magenta, cyan and black toners is a toner low water content toner, water content of the high water ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7727697 | Electrophotographic toner and electrophotographic developer by use thereof An electrophotographic toner is disclosed, meeting the requirement that a ratio of a storage modulus at 60° C. [G′(60)] to a storage modulus at 80° C. [G′(80)], G′(60)/G′(80) is from 1×102 to 1×104; a ratio of a storage modulus at 1... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7695885 | Developer and image forming method using the developer A negatively-chargeable non-magnetic one-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image using a contact DC-bias development method, having a capacitance of 1.05×10−12 to 1.25×10−12 F, a volume resistivity of 5.0×10... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7682765 | Toner for developing electrostatic images To provide a toner for developing electrostatic images which is not easily cause the phenomenon of toner-spent, constituent materials are so selected that a charge control resin has hardness which is the same as the hardness of a binder resin or the charge control r... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7678523 | 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 ca... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7629100 | Toner An object of the present invention is to provide a toner which: is excellent in fixing ability such as low-temperature fixability, hot offset property, and separability even in a fixing system excellent in quick start property and energy saving property; has high gl... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7579129 | Process for preparing toner for electrophotography The present invention relates to a process for preparing a toner for electrophotography comprising a crystalline polyester and a colorant, wherein the colorant is added in at least one of the neutralizing step, the emulsifying step, and the aggregating step and a pr... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7521164 | Toner, and, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method A toner which includes a toner material, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 0° C.≦ΔTm≦20° C. where ΔTm represents Tma (° C.)−Tmb (° C.), Tma (° C.) is ½ flown-out temperature of the toner by ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7507515 | Toner compositions A process for the preparation of color toners whereby the triboelectric charging of the various colors is optimized to permit blending of the colors to form custom colors. ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7468233 | Developer for use in electrophotography, image forming method and process cartridge Electro-photographic images having high picture quality and low carrier adhesion can be obtained using a two-component developer containing a carrier containing (A) a carrier containing a core containing a magnetic material, the core being coated with at least one r... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7439003 | Magnetic black toner for electrophotography having Mn-containing hematite compound and magnetic two-component developer for electrophotography containing the same A magnetic black toner for electrophotography comprising a binding resin, a magnetic substance, and a pigment, wherein the pigment is at least one of phthalocyanine pigment and Mn containing hematite, and the content ratio of the magnetic substance and the pigment i... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7416826 | Color toner for electrophotography and color toner set for electrophotography using the same, color developer for electrophotography, method for forming color image, and apparatus for forming color image A color toner for electrophotography having excellent fixability and void resistance is capable of forming a high-quality image. The color toner for electrophotography comprises a binder resin and is a magenta toner, and used in combination with at least any of yell... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7402367 | Electrostatic image developing toner and image forming method A toner comprising a compound represented by the following formula: R1O(R2O)nH where R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 10 to 22 carbon atoms or a distyrene-substituted phenyl group; R2 | 07/22/2008 |
| 7402370 | Single component developer of emulsion aggregation toner A toner for developing electrostatic images in a single component development (SCD) system free of carrier and including emulsion aggregation toner particles of a styrene acrylate polymer binder, at least one release agent and at least one colorant, wherein the tone... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399567 | Toner for electrostatic latent image development, electrostatic latent image developer containing the toner, and image formation method using the developer A toner for electrostatic latent image development containing at least a binder resin and a colorant, wherein [Fe]/[C] satisfies the following formula (1) where [C] indicates the carbon content (%) and [Fe] indicates the iron content (%) of the toner determined thro... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7396628 | Toner for electrostatic charge image developing, developer for electrostatic charge image developing, and image forming apparatus Provided is a toner for electrostatic charge image developing, comprising a core layer which contains a first binder resin and a coloring agent, and a shell layer which contains a second binder resin and covers the core layer, characterized in that the following equ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7390603 | Image forming apparatus and toner The present invention provides An image forming apparatus having: a negatively chargeable spherical toner; an latent image carrier; a charging member for charging a surface of the latent image carrier uniformly without contacting the latent image carrier; an electro... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390604 | Negatively chargeable spherical toner, color image forming apparatus, and process for producing negatively chargeable spherical toner The present invention provides a negatively chargeable spherical toner having: a toner mother particle having a binder resin and a colorant, which has: a number average particle size of from 4.5 to 9 μm; a particle size distribution that has an integrated value of ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7381509 | Toner kit, deep-color cyan toner, pale-color cyan toner, and image forming method The present invention provides: a toner kit having a deep toner and a pale toner which are separated from each other, wherein: the deep toner and the pale toner satisfy prescribed conditions for an L*a*b* color coordinate system where a* represents a hue in the red-... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381515 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus In an image forming method having primarily transferring step for transferring to an intermediate transfer member a toner image formed on a photosensitive member, secondarily transferring step for transferring to a transfer material the toner image held on the inter... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378208 | Toner and production method of the same A toner for an electrophotography comprising a resin and a colorant is disclosed. The toner is formed by a process including a step of aggregating resin particles, and the toner comprises a volatile ketone compound in an amount of 4-60 ppm and carnauba wax in toner ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378213 | Image forming process and image forming apparatus A process contains in which heating and fixing an image of a toner on a recording medium is performed by heating one or more heat-transfer media by a heating element, and pressing the recording medium bearing the toner image to one of the heat-transfer media. At lea... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374851 | Toner, and, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method A toner which includes a toner material, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 0° C.≦ΔTm≦20° C. where ΔTm represents Tma (° C.)−Tmb (° C.), Tma (° C.) is ½ flown-out temperature of the toner by a capillary type flow tes... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374847 | Toner and developer for developing electrostatic image and image forming method A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner contains an amount of not less than 0.1% by weight of an element selected from elements of the Groups of 1B, 2B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8, 3A and 4A of the fourth and fifth periodic of the long periodic ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371495 | Toner A toner is formed of toner particles including a polyester resin as a principal component, and at least a colorant and a charge control agent, and externally added inorganic fine particles and organic fine particles. The toner has a volume-average diameter of 4 to 1... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368213 | Toner and fixing device and image forming device using the same A toner containing toner particles having a core-shell structure containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent. The toner particles are prepared by dissolving or dispersing at least one of the binder resin and a precursor thereof in an organic solvent or... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368214 | Electrostatic latent image developing toner and manufacturing method thereof An electrostatic latent image developing toner including, as a binder resin, a crystalline resin and at least one kind of non-crystalline resin, wherein, in a dynamic viscoelasticity measurement by a sine wave vibration method, a minimum value of the relaxation elas... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364827 | Electrophotographic toner An electrophotographic toner comprising a resin, a colorant and a release agent which comprises a first wax and a second wax, wherein: (i) the first wax exhibits: an endothermic peak appearing in the range 75-100° C., a peak width at half height of the endothermic ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361441 | Color toner, and full-color image-forming method A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and rang... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358019 | Developing process and image forming process The present invention provides a developing process including the steps of charging toner particles supported on a developer carrier; and providing the charged toner particles to an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, wherein, the charged toner pa... | 04/15/2008 |
