...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943279 | Copper complex compound and electrophotographic toner containing the same A copper complex compound represented by Formula (1) is disclosed. in the formula, groups represented by R is a substituent, n is an integer of from 1 to 5 and the total carbon number contained in (R) n is 14 or more. A toner... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7745084 | Toner, developer including the toner, and image forming method, image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the toner A toner including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein a pellet of the toner which is prepared by applying a pressure of 15 kg/cm2 to the toner has a tensile strength of from 900 Pa to 10,000 Pa, and wherein the toner has a methanol wettability of from ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7442481 | Charge control agent A composition comprising a toner binder and a charge control agent comprising a sulfonation product of Solvent Blue 23, wherein from greater than 0 up to 30 mole % of the Solvent Blue 23 is sulfonated. ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7416601 | Black perylene pigments Black perylene pigments which comprise one of the isomers of the formula Ia or Ib in which R1, R2 are each independently phenylene, naphthylene or pyridylene, each of which may be mono- or... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7261989 | Toner for developing electrostatic images, developer, image forming method, and image forming apparatus The object of the present invention is to provide a toner which has sufficiently high chargeability and less toner spent to a carrier or the like even when several tens of thousands of image sheets are output, is capable of keeping high-charge property and flowabili... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7198874 | Toner, method of making, method of using The present invention relates to a toner useful, for example, for visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member by a method such as electrophotography and electrostatic recording methods. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7083888 | External additive for electrostatically charged image developing toner An external additive for electrostatically charged image developing toner is provided. The additive includes spherical hydrophobic fine silica particles having primary particles with a particle diameter of from 0.01 to 5 μm and having been treated with a compound s... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7074535 | Toner, method of making, method of using The present invention relates to a toner useful, for example, for visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member by a method such as electrophotography and electrostatic recording methods. In addition, the present invention also relates,... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6620568 | Flash fixing color toner and image forming process using the same The present invention discloses a flash fixing color toner for use in an image forming process, which comprises a binder resin, a coloring agent, and an infrared absorbent, wherein negative ions form part of the infrared absorbent, and the negative ions i... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5429901 | Toner for use in electrostatic development A toner for use in electrostatic development is composed of toner particles, each toner particle being composed of a core particle containing a thermoplastic resin and a coloring agent; a releasing agent in the form of particles, which substantially cover... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5418103 | Toner for developing latent electrostatic images A toner prepared by allowing finely-divided particles of a vinyl resin having an alkali-reactive group to react with a fluorine-containing quaternary ammonium salt to obtain surface-modified finely-divided particles; mixing the surface-modified finely-div... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5378573 | Electrophotographic toner An electrophotographic toner containing a compound of the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of X and Y which are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom, ##STR2## (wherein each of D1 and D2 is a hydrog... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5362592 | Decolorizable toner A decolorizable toner including a resin binder, a near infrared ray-absorbing dye, a decolorizing agent and a light fastness stabilizer, and a process for preparing the decolorizable toner, which includes the steps of mixing the near infrared ray-absorbin... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5334472 | Toner for developing static charge images Present invention provides a toner for developing static charge images to the surface of which is adhered powder of aluminum oxide in the amount of 0.01% to 5% by weight. This aluminum oxide has a specific surface area of not less than 80 m2 /g... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5314777 | Negatively chargeable toner for developing latent electrostatic images A negatively chargeable toner for developing latent electrostatic images is composed of a coloring agent; releasing agent; a binder resin including a polyester and a styrene - acryl-based polymer component with a weight-average molecular weight of 50,000 ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5225305 | Electrophotographic toner An electrophotographic toner containing a specific compound as the charge control agent is described. The electrophotographic toner according to the present invention have a sharper distribution of the amount of electrification and better moisture resista... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5168028 | Negatively chargeable toner for developing latent electrostatic images A negatively chargeable toner for developing latent electrostatic images comprising a binder resin, a coloring agent and a charge controlling agent which comprises a fluorine-containing quaternary ammonium salt of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5147748 | Use of colorless highly fluorine-substituted phosphonium compounds as charge control agents for electrophotographic recording processes Use of colorless highly fluorine-substituted phosphonium compounds as charge control agents for electrophotographic recording processes Use of highly fluorine-substituted phosphonium compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R1 to R4 | 09/15/1992 |
| 5102766 | Toner for developing latent electrostatic images A toner for developing latent electronstatic images comprises a coloring agent, a binder resin component and a negative charge controlling agent in an effective amount which is selected from the group consisting of: (i) an aromatic fluoride having formule (I);... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4284696 | Light transmission particle for forming color image Disclosed is a light transmission particle containing a colorless sublimable dye, an acyl leucophenoxazine compound suitable for use in the formation of a color image. This particle can produce a clear color image having little fogging and having an excel... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4268598 | Developing powder composition containing fluoroaliphatic sulfonamido surface active agent A developing powder composition is provided that comprises a mixture of from about 99.5 to 95% by weight of toner powder particles and correpondingly from about 0.5 to 5% by weight of a fluoroaliphatic sulfonamido surface active material.... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4126565 | Toners for color flash fusers containing a permanent colorant and a heat sensitive dye A toner and imaging system wherein the utilized toner is composed of a permanent colorant of the final color desired and additionally contains heat sensitive dye that darkens the color of the toner so that it more efficiently absorbs heat during flash fus... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4126458 | Inorganic fluoride reversal carrier coatings Electrostatographic developer mixtures comprising finely-divided toner particles electrostatically clinging to the surface of carrier particles comprising a core having an outer coating thereon comprising an inorganic metal fluoride. The carrier particles... | 11/21/1978 |