Patent classifications
G03G9/113
ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
An electrostatic charge image developing carrier, contains: a magnetic particle; and a coating resin layer coating the magnetic particle and containing inorganic particles, in which an area ratio of the inorganic particles that is a ratio of a total area of the inorganic particles to an area of the coating resin layer in a cut surface of the coating resin layer along a thickness direction of the coating resin layer is 10% or more and 50% or less.
Electrostatic charge image developing carrier, electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic core particle, and a coating layer that coats surfaces of the magnetic core particle, wherein the coating layer includes a binder resin, thermosetting resin particles, and crosslinked resin particles, and the crosslinked resin particle contains a polymer formed by polymerizing a monomer component including the same monomer as a monomer used in the polymerization of the binder resin.
Electrostatic charge image developing carrier, electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a magnetic core particle, and a coating layer that coats surfaces of the magnetic core particle, wherein the coating layer includes a binder resin, thermosetting resin particles, and crosslinked resin particles, and the crosslinked resin particle contains a polymer formed by polymerizing a monomer component including the same monomer as a monomer used in the polymerization of the binder resin.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARRIER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND CARRIER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT
A method for producing a carrier for electrostatic charge image development includes coating magnetic particles by adding the magnetic particles and a coating liquid containing a resin and a solvent to a mixer with a stirring blade to form a resin coating layer on surfaces of the magnetic particles and taking a carrier having the resin coating layer out of the mixer. In the coating, the stirring conditions after the solvent is evaporated and dried by heating in the mixer until the carrier is taken out of the mixer satisfy Formula 1 below and Formula 2 below:
0.2≤peripheral speed πDn (m/s) of stirring blade≤2.0 Formula 1,
1×10.sup.3≤stirring workload (peripheral speed×stirring time T)≤4×10.sup.3 Formula 2, where D represents a diameter (m) of the stirring blade, n represents a number of revolutions (rps) of the stirring blade, and T represents a time (s) from a time point at which, after a load power of the stirring blade before drying of the solvent increases with drying until completion of drying, a load power of the stirring blade decreases to 1.3 times or less the load power of the stirring blade before drying to a time point at which stirring in the mixer is stopped.
METHOD FOR PRODUCING RECYCLED CARRIER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING RECYCLED ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND RECYCLED CARRIER
A method for producing a recycled carrier includes: performing classification, the classification including separating a carrier having a coating layer from a collected developer by a centrifugal air classifier, the collected developer containing the carrier and being obtained by collecting an electrostatic charge image developer remaining after image formation; and performing recoating, the recoating including dissolving or thermally melting a coating resin of the separated and classified carrier and then coating the resulting carrier again to produce a recycled carrier.
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER SET INCLUDING TONER AND POWDER ADHESIVE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED PRODUCT
Provided is an electrophotographic developer set having a toner and a powder adhesive, wherein the toner comprises a thermoplastic resin A; the powder adhesive comprises a thermoplastic resin B and a wax A; the wax A has two or more ester groups in the molecule; the thermoplastic resin B has an ester group; and in a viscoelasticity measurement, with Gt′(100) (Pa) being a storage elastic modulus at 100° C. of the toner, and Gb′(100) (Pa) being a storage elastic modulus at 100° C. of the powder adhesive, Gb′(100) is 1.00×10.sup.5 Pa or less, and Gt′(100)/Gb′(100) is 1.20 or more, as well as a method for producing a bonded product using the above electrophotographic developer set.
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER SET INCLUDING TONER AND POWDER ADHESIVE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BONDED PRODUCT
Provided is an electrophotographic developer set having a toner and a powder adhesive, wherein the toner comprises a thermoplastic resin A; the powder adhesive comprises a thermoplastic resin B and a wax A; the wax A has two or more ester groups in the molecule; the thermoplastic resin B has an ester group; and in a viscoelasticity measurement, with Gt′(100) (Pa) being a storage elastic modulus at 100° C. of the toner, and Gb′(100) (Pa) being a storage elastic modulus at 100° C. of the powder adhesive, Gb′(100) is 1.00×10.sup.5 Pa or less, and Gt′(100)/Gb′(100) is 1.20 or more, as well as a method for producing a bonded product using the above electrophotographic developer set.
Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, and toner cartridge
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles having a volume average particle diameter of 3 μm to 16 μm, wherein, when the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 μm to 30.0 μm are set as T1, the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 μm to 2.5 μm are set as T2, a rate of T2 to the toner particles is set as A, the toner particles having a particle diameter of 1.0 μm to 5 μm is set as T3 and a rate of T3 to the toner particles is set as B, the rate of T2 occupying T1 is from 10% by number to 40% by number and a fine particle ratio C represented by A/B is from 0.18 to 0.40.
Electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, and process cartridge
An electrostatic charge image developer includes an electrostatic charge image developing toner that includes toner particles, and an external additive which is added to the toner particles and which includes silica particles whose compression aggregation degree is from 60% to 95% and particle compression ratio is from 0.20 to 0.40, and a carrier for developing an electrostatic charge image that has a core including a magnetic member in a binder resin for a core and a coating layer which coders a surface or the core and which includes a resin for a coating layer and has a surface roughness Ra of from 0.25 μm to 0.4 μm.
SILICA WITH REDUCED TRIBO-CHARGE FOR TONER APPLICATIONS
Surface-treated fumed silica, with a tribo-electro static charge of −500 μC/g to +500 μC/g, a ratio of the tribo-electro static charge to BET surface area of −3.5 μC/m.sup.2 to +3.5 μC/m.sup.2, a methanol wettability of at least 20% by volume methanol in methanol/water mixture, a ratio of carbon content to BET surface area of at most 0.020 wt. %*g/m.sup.2, a process for its preparation and the use thereof.