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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173345 | Toner and process of production of the same [PROBLEMS] To provide a toner superior in shelf stability, not giving off an offensive odor and degrading the surrounding environment when used for printing, and superior in durability at the time of use for continuous printing under high temperature, high humidity ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8153342 | Developer, and image forming apparatus and image forming method using the developer A developer including a toner and a carrier, wherein the carrier is a ferrite carrier coated with a silicone resin and the following relationships are satisfied: log(ΔQ(t)/Q∞)=−kobt Î... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7846630 | Binder resin for toner, toner, and method of manufacturing binder resin for toner A binder resin for toner includes a hybrid resin of a crystalline resin (X) and an amorphous resin (Y), having a peak molecular weight of 30,000 or larger, and an amorphous resin (Z) having a peak molecular weight of smaller than 30,000. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7632618 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate-containing structure and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing polyhydroxyalkanoate-containing structure, at least a part of a base material surface of the structure being coated with polyhydroxyalkanoate, the method comprises the steps of immobilizing a polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase on the base mater... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7468232 | Processes for forming latexes and toners, and latexes and toner formed thereby A process for preparing a latex includes polymerizing at least one monomer in the presence of an initiator to form a polymer emulsion; and adding an odor-scavenging bismuth compound to the formed polymer emulsion. ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7384472 | Pigment preparations based on PY 155 The invention concerns a pigment preparation based on C.I. Pigment Yellow 155, containing 0.1% to 50% by weight, based on the weight of C.I. Pigment Yellow 155, of at least one pigment dispersant from the group of monoazo or disazo pigments substituted with at least... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7364828 | Toner for electrophotography, method of manufacturing the toner, developer, development method, transfer method, and process cartridge using the toner The method of manufacturing toner for electrophotography includes the steps of dissolving or dispersing a toner composition containing a resin and a coloring agent into polymerizable monomers to provide a solution or a dispersed system, emulsifying the solution or t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7351786 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate containing unit having cyclohexyl structure at side chain, production process therefor, and binder resin containing polyhydroxyalkanoate Disclosed are a polyhydroxyalkanoate, containing in a polymer molecule thereof a monomer unit represented by the following general formula (1): (wherein R1 represents a substituent to a cyclohexyl group, where R1 is a H ato... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333744 | Image forming apparatus that charges a photosensitive member by superimposing an alternate current bias voltage on a direct current bias voltage as the charge bias voltage A charge apparatus charges by uniformly superimposing an alternate current bias voltage with a fixed frequency over a direct current bias voltage as the charge bias voltage on a photosensitive member. An exposure apparatus exposes the surface of the charged photosen... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7267974 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate synthesizing microorganism and process of producing polyhydroxyalkanoate using the same Microorganisms showing higher productivity of unusual-polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) than ever by using an inexpensive substrate or under specific conditions are obtained from wild strains and mutant strains. The microorganisms are cultured with such substrates to synth... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267921 | Process for forming toners from dry pigments A process for preparing toner compositions using a dry pigment is provided. The process comprises combining a base toner resin composition, a dry pigment, and dispersion agent in a one step process, without the need any pre-processing of the pigments such as by, for... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7255734 | Phthalocyanine pigment preparations A copper phthalocyanine pigment preparation contains a copper phthalocyanine pigment and at least one pigment dispersant from the group of copper phthalocyanine sulfonic acids and copper phthalocyanine sulfonic acid salts. The inventive pigment preparation is charac... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248826 | Heater roller cleaner, method and apparatus for a fuser assembly The fuser roller and heater rollers of the fusing system can become contaminated with ink and other foreign material when pre-printed materials are run through them. The contamination can create regions of cold spots, which in turn results in poor fusing. Other imag... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7228035 | Optical fiber machining method and end processing device for optical fiber A method for machining an optical fiber comprises the steps of: connecting a rear end 1b of an optical fiber 1 to a laser oscillator 2 and exposing a clad 12 of a front-end 1a thereof; preparing processing agents 4... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7205046 | Electrophotographic lamination film, a method of producing the same, and a method of forming an image The present invention provides an electrophotographic lamination film which can be easily laminated by using the film as it is without significantly modifying a conventional electrophotographic device, can be printed with letters of high resolution directly on a sur... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7166158 | Quinacridone pigment compositions comprising unsymmetrically substituted components The present invention relates to a novel quinacridone pigment compositions, a process using a mixed amine synthesis for the ultimate production of the compositions and to their use as colorants for pigmenting high molecular weight organic materials. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7153622 | Electrostatic charge image developing toner, producing method therefor, image forming method and image forming apparatus utilizing the toner, construct and method for making the construct A construct that comprises a base material and a polyhydroxyalkanoate, wherein at least a part of the base material is coated with the polyhydroxyalkanoate, and the polyhydroxyalkanoate comprises a 3-hydroxyalkanoic acid unit other than 3-hydroxypropionic acid unit,... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153358 | Pigment preparations based on diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments for the undistorted pigmentation of partially crystalline plastics A pigment preparation comprising a) at least one diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment of the formula (V) as a base pigment and b) at least one pigment dispersing agent based on sulphonated diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives and the use thereof for the undistorted coloration o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6979523 | Toner material and method utilizing same A toner particle adapted for use in electrostatic image formation, comprising a polymer and flakes of metal dispersed in the polymer. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6908720 | Polyhydroxyalkanoate, its production method, charge control agent containing the polyhydroxyalkanoate, toner binder and toner, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the toner The present invention provides a novel PHA comprising a unit containing thioether with high reactivity, and its production method. The present invention also provides polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) comprising units having defined chemical formulas (1) and (2), and at le... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6879798 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing body, a developing unit, and a transfer unit. The image bearing body bears an electrostatic latent image formed thereon. The developing unit supplies a developer material to the image bearing body to develop the e... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6753371 | Fluorine rubber composition, fixing member, fixing device, fixing method, and method of manufacturing fixing device A fluorine rubber composition used for the surface layer material of a fixing member to fix a toner transferred onto a recording material comprises fluorine rubber having a polymerization degree based on vinylidene fluoride. The fixing member includes a base materia... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6740463 | Method for producing toner by mixing colored particles and outer-additive by mixer with stirrer of high speed rotation A method of producing a toner having a process of mixing colored particles and outer-additives by using a mixer with an agitating blade whose shaft portion is sealed with a gas having a flow rate of from 0.4 m3/hr to 3 m3/hr and which rotates a... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6728507 | Electrostatic image forming apparatus with fluororesin in fixing roller layer An image forming apparatus forms an electrostatic latent image corresponding to an image information signal on an image carrying member, develops the electrostatic latent image using a two component developer of toner particles and carrier particles and transfers th... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6689524 | Toner for developing a static latent image and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to a toner for developing a static latent image, wherein a smell of the toner has a cos θ of from 0.990 to 0.998 as to the smell of styrene and a cos θ of from 0.986 to 0.994 as to the smell of n-butyl acrylate in the smell... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6673504 | Method for applying a coating to a surface of a material A method for applying a coating to a surface of a material while using electrophotography. According to this invention, a supporting material provided with a photoconductive layer has an electrostatic charge pattern, a coating material is applied to the s... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6548703 | Toning agent A toning agent for an azo pigment, an azo pigment with a modified tone, and process for preparing the same are provide. 2-hydroxynaphthalene-3,6-dicarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof is admixed with a primary coupler component for an azo pigment and t... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6506244 | Stable polymorphic copper-free phthalocyanine pigment The invention relates to a new polymorphic pigmentary form of phthalocyanines, the preparation therof by salt-milling a phthalocyanine crude in the presence of a water-soluble neutral organic liquid, and some uses thereof. These phthalocyanines are stable... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6464797 | Method of separating electrophotographic carrier compositions and recycling the compositions A method for use in two-components electrostatic image developers is disclosed, in which secure separation of a carrier coating resinous materials from a core magnetic material is achieved without affecting the properties of the core materials through pro... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6420012 | Toner carrier and image-forming apparatus A toner carrier which carries a toner in the form of thin film on its surface, comes close to or comes into contact with the image-forming body so as to supply the toner to the surface of the image-forming body, thereby forming a visible image on the surf... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6361916 | Loaded latex compositions with dye and stabilizer A composition that is useful in a wide variety of applications comprises a latex having water as a continuous phase and, as the dispersed phase, hydrophobic polymer particles having associated therewith both a dye and a stabilizer for the dye. In a partic... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6153346 | Electrostatic image developing toner, process for the production thereof, electrostatic image developer and process for the formation of image Disclosed is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a binder resin and a coloring agent, which exhibits a volume-average particle distribution GSDv of not more than 1.26 and an acid value of from 1.0 to 20 mgKOH/g and contains a surface active... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6134413 | Carrier for magnetic developer and method of electrophotographically forming visual image A magnetic carrier for a developer used in electrostatically forming a visual image, comprising a magnetic core material, an electrically-conductive particle-containing resin layer and electrically-conductive particles externally added to the electri... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6122473 | Developer carrying member for carrying developer, apparatus unit detachably mountable on the main assembly of image forming apparatus, and image-forming apparatus A developer carrying member for carrying a developer is includes a substrate and a resin coat layer which is formed on the surface of the substrate and contains a binder resin and a conductive fine powder. The binder resin is composed of a copolymer havin... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6068921 | Carbon fluoride particles, preparation process and users of the same Carbon fluoride particles in which a number-average particle size is 0.01 to 50 μm, a content of particles having such a diameter that the particles size distribution falls with in range of the number-average particle size &#b1;20% amounts to at least 50... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5998078 | Method of preparing toner for electrostatic charge image development, toner for electrostatic charge image development, electrostatic charge image developer, and image forming method The present invention provides a method of preparing a toner for electrostatic charge image development comprising the steps of a liquid mixture preparation process for preparing a liquid mixture by mixing at least a resin particle dispersion prepared by ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5884129 | Electrostatic-image developer and image forming process An electrostatic-image developer which comprises: (i) a toner comprising: (a) toner particles containing carbon black in an amount of from 6 to 8% by weight based on the weight of the toner particles and having a volume-average particle diameter of from 3... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5871878 | Toner offset preventing oils for zirconia ceramic and its composites rollers Offset preventing oils for treated (IR light) or untreated zirconia ceramic or its composites fuser rollers are disclosed.... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5853937 | Two-component magnetic developer for printing characters for magnetic ink character recognition A two-component magnetic developer of the invention for printing characters on documents for magnetic ink character recognition comprises the mixture of 20 to 80 percent by weight of a magnetic toner containing binder resin and magnetic powder and the bal... | 12/29/1998 |
