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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8124309 | Solvent-free emulsion process A process for making a resin emulsion suitable for use in forming toner particles is provided. In embodiments, a suitable process includes melt mixing a resin in the absence of an organic solvent, optionally adding a surfactant to the resin, adding to the resin a ba... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8114565 | Toner production method and toner granulating apparatus Provided is a toner production method that reuses a fine particle toner having a particle diameter failing to meet a predetermined standard diameter which is generated in pulverizing and classifying processes carried out for a toner material including at least a bin... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8039191 | Toner A toner having a BET specific surface area of from 1.5 to 3.5 m2/g, obtainable by a process including the steps of; step (1): pulverizing a toner composition containing at least a resin binder and a colorant in the presence of fine inorganic particles hav... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8012662 | Method of manufacturing toner A method of manufacturing toner including; melting and kneading a mixture including a binder resin and a coloring agent; cooling down the melted and kneaded mixture to provide a cooled mixture; coarsely pulverizing the cooled mixture to provide a coarsely pulverized... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7767376 | Toner compositions The present disclosure provides processes for producing toners which include an annealing step and toners produced by these processes. The process includes a continuous annealing step, which increases the glass transition temperature of the resulting toner. ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7498114 | Toner, process of manufacturing toner, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming process A toner manufacturing process, includes: melting a kneaded composition, to thereby obtain a melted composition; and spraying the melted composition with a high pressure gas, to thereby form a fine particle. The kneaded composition is selected from the group consisti... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7384721 | Toner for electrostatic image development The present invention relates to a toner for electrostatic image development, obtainable by a process including the steps of (I) melt-kneading a raw material mixture comprising a resin binder, a releasing agent, and a colorant; cooling the melt-kneaded mixture; and ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7358023 | Method for producing toner, toner and printed matter The invention provides a method for producing a toner comprising: a step of preparing a powder for production of the toner from a raw material containing a resin as a main component, a coloring agent, and a crystalline polyester having higher crystallinity than the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354689 | Process for producing toner A waste toner reclamation process includes collecting waste toner, screening the collected waste toner, meltmixing the screened waste toner with a second toner, and extruding, grinding and classifying the mixed toner product, wherein the collected waste toner compri... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7323283 | Method of producing an electrostatic charge image developing toner A pulverized starting material is supplied quantitatively from a quantitative feeder 1 to a first mechanical pulverizer 2 where the material is pulverized moderately, the resulting moderately pulverized material is supplied quantitatively from a quanti... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320850 | Magenta toner A magenta toner is provided which contains at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, in which a maximum heat-absorption peak temperature as measured using a differential scanning calorimeter, a reflectance at a predetermined wavelength when measured in a powde... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316879 | Imaging color toner, color image forming method and color image forming apparatus In an imaging color toner employing a photofixing system, a binder resin, which contains, as a principal component, a polyester resin obtained by mixing a first polyester resin having a softening point Tsp of not lower than 120° C. and lower than 170° C. with a se... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314697 | Toner compositions including large external latex particles A toner composition includes toner particles having at least one spacer of substantially monodisperse latex particles that are dried and attached to the toner particles, in which the attached latex particles have an average particle size of from about 60 nm to about... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309555 | Non-magnetic monocomponent color toner and preparation method thereof The present invention relates to a non-magnetic monocomponent color toner and a preparing method thereof. In the non-magnetic monocomponent color toner including a toner mother particle, silica and titanium dioxide, the toner mother particle comprises a specific sha... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306889 | Process for producing toner, and toner A process for producing a toner by subjecting a polymer and a resin component containing a cross-linkable polymer capable of cross-linkingly reacting with the polymer, to cross-linking reaction in the presence of a first wax to form a wax-containing cross-linked pol... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7288348 | Color toner In a color toner having toner particles which have toner base particles containing a binder resin, a colorant and a wax, and inorganic fine particles, (i) in the toner base particles, particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 3.00 μm or more as measured with... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286781 | Developer, image forming method and image forming apparatus A toner for developing a latent image includes, at least, a binder resin, a releasing agent, a coloring agent and a fluidizing agent. A melting point Tw of the releasing agent is higher than or equals to a softening temperature Ts of the developer measured by a capi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282315 | Developer, developer cartridge, and image forming apparatus A method of producing a developer includes the steps of: kneading at least a resin and a colorant; reducing the kneaded resin and colorant to coarse powders; adding an additive agent to the coarse powders; reducing the coarse powders with the additive agent to fine ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273686 | Toner In a toner comprising toner particles which comprise toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine particles, the toner base particles have been obtained through a pulverization step; and, the toner base particle... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7267922 | Method of preparing particulate phase toner using fractional dissolution and particulate phase toner prepared using the same A method is provided for preparing a particulate phase toner for use in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The method uses fractional dissolution rather than pulverization and chemical preparation. Accordingly, it is easy to control the size and the sha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7252921 | Toners with improved pigment dispersion The invention relates to color toner compositions prepared from an aqueous pigment concentrate dispersion which renders a toner exhibiting improved pigment dispersion, and consequently improved image density and color characteristics. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247415 | Process for preparing toner particles and toner particles Toner particles are prepared by a process comprising providing an extrusion apparatus; adding resin particles and additive particles to a supply means in the extrusion apparatus; adding the resin particles and the additive particles to a blending chamber in the extr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247416 | Toner processes and compositions thereof The invention relates to color toner compositions prepared from a process for the preparation of a dry toner powder from an aqueous pigment concentrate dispersion comprising: blending at least an aqueous-based pigment concentrate dispersion and a resin to produce a ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7237732 | Process for preparing ground resin particles and apparatus for preparing the same A process for preparing ground resin particles is provided by modifying a jet mill with opposed fluidized bed. By using a jet mill having a plurality of jet nozzles disposed at predetermined positions in a barrel of a grinding chamber toward the injection point of t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238459 | Method and device for processing powder A powder is de-aerated in a collector and then transferred to a chamber via a valve. The chamber may then be injected with a low-pressure air stream carrying an additive for mixing with the de-aerated powder. The mixing of the powder with the air and additive stream... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232636 | Toner for electrostatic image development A toner for electrostatic image development comprising a resin binder comprising (a) a high-softening point polyester having a softening point of greater than 120° C. and 160° C. or less; and (b) a low-softening point polyester having a softening point of 75° C. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7220524 | System and method for producing secure toner-based images A system and a method for printing a secure document that is difficult to forge and readily easy to visually verify are disclosed. The system includes a colorant for printing an image on a surface of a document, a dye for forming a latent version of the image undern... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220525 | Secure imaging toner and methods of forming and using the same A toner for printing documents that are difficult to chemically or physically forge and that are readily easy to visually verify and methods of using and forming the toner are disclosed. The toner includes a colorant for printing an image on a surface of a document ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217485 | Toner for electrophotography, and image fixing process, image forming process, image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the same A toner for electrophotography contains a binder resin, a charge control agent, and a colorant. The colorant is a black iron oxide compound containing 10 to 45% by weight of titanium component calculated in terms of Ti atom in relation to Fe atom when measured by wa... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7169526 | Toner for the development of electrostatic image and the production process thereof A toner for the development of an electrostatic image is provided wherein at least one layer of a particulate resin is coated onto a substantial portion of the surface of an agglomerate of particles made from at least primary polymer particles and primary colorant p... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7153624 | Plastic toner and method for producing such a plastic toner A toner and to a method for producing a plastic toner, especially for electrophotography. The base material for the toner, a powder for powder coating, is used and has a grain size distribution of from 1 to 20 μm, particularly 5 to 15 μm, and has additional charge... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7112251 | Glow-in-the-dark tire sidewalls The present invention relates to a tire having a portion thereof such as a sidewall component that glows-in-the-dark due to the presence of a phosphorescent layer thereon. The present invention also relates to a tire having, and to a process for incorporating, a pho... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7090955 | Black toner, image forming method and image forming apparatus using the toner A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, including toner particles each containing a black colorant and a binder resin, wherein the black colorant comprises a metal oxide having a number average particle diameter in the range of 20 to 100 nm in an amoun... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7078142 | Image forming method An image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises processes in which a latent image on an electrophotographic photoreceptor is developed employing a developer material, and after transferring the visualized toner image to a recording material, the remaining... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078144 | Method for manufacturing toner The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a toner with adjusted particle size distribution having a step of preparing colored particles that contain a binder resin and a colorant, and a step of classifying the colored particles. In the classificati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7056635 | Toner, method of producing the toner, developer including the toner, and image forming method and apparatus using the developer A toner including a thermoplastic resin; a colorant; a wax; and a crystalline polymer, wherein a DSC endothermic peak temperature of the wax or the crystalline polymer determined by subjecting the toner to a differential scanning calorimetric analysis is lower by no... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7056638 | Toner for electrophotography, developer using the same, process cartridge using the same, image-forming apparatus using the same, and image-forming process using the same The present invention is directed to a toner for electrophotography that exhibits excellent hot offset resistance, storability, and glossiness and can obtain a high image-resolution and highly detailed images when used for energy saving apparatuses or as a color ton... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7052818 | Toners and processes thereof Disclosed is an oil-less toner composition exhibiting good low temperature release and stripping in fixing, enhanced surface gloss of fixed image, and/or OHP transparency. By controlling one or more properties, such as the relative thermal energy input during the EA... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7029818 | Use of coated pigment granules in electrophotographic toners and developers, powder coatings and inkjet inks The present invention relates to the use of wax-coated pigment granules as colorants in electrophotographic toners and developers, powder coating materials, inkjet inks, electret fibers, and color filters, wherein the coated pigment granules have a particle size of ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011259 | Apparatus for working and processing materials A system for working and processing material, for example, for disintegrating different material, especially elastomers, in different branches of industry for lowering quantity of waste. The apparatus includes a housing with: branch pipes for introducing initial mat... | 03/14/2006 |
