Patent classifications
G03G9/08711
TONER
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a colorant, a binder resin, and calcium carbonate particles, wherein an amount of the colorant in the toner particle is from 1.0 to 20.0% by mass; the binder resin comprises a polyester resin; the polyester resin has an aromatic ring concentration of from 50 to 70 mol %; a surface of the calcium carbonate particles is coated with a fatty acid; an amount of the calcium carbonate particles in the toner particle is from 1.0 to 15.0% by mass; a number average particle diameter of the calcium carbonate particles is from 150 nm to 800 nm.
Toner
A toner comprising a toner particle that contains a binder resin and a wax, wherein the toner particle contains an organosilicon polymer as given by formula (1) below;
R.sup.1—SiO.sub.3/2 (1),
in formula (1), R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbons; in a cross section of the toner particle observed using a transmission electron microscope, in terms of a distance A from the centroid of the cross section of the toner particle to a contour of the cross section, the organosilicon polymer is present in a region that is not more than 80% of the distance A from the centroid; and an absolute value of a difference between an SP value of the organosilicon polymer and an SP value of the wax is not more than 0.70 (cal/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2.
Toner
A toner having a toner particle including a toner base particle and an organosilicon polymer coating the toner base particle, wherein when S1 (μm.sup.2) is a total area of a non-coated part not coated with the organosilicon polymer on an outermost surface of the toner particle, S2 (μm.sup.2) is a total area of a coated part coated with the organosilicon polymer on the outermost surface of the toner particle, and SA1 (μm.sup.2) is a total of areas of non-coated part domains D1 with an area of not more than 0.10 μm.sup.2 in size in the non-coated part not coated with the organosilicon polymer, formulae (1) and (2) below are satisfied.
0.45≤[S2/(S1+S2)]≤0.65 (1)
(SA1/S1)≥0.50 (2)
TONER
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and an ester compound, wherein: the binder resin comprises a resin A comprising a specific amount of a long-chain acrylate unit and a styrene-based monomer unit, and a resin B comprising a specific monomer unit in a specific amount; the ester compound has an alkyl chain with a specific chain length, a content of the resin A in the chloroform-soluble portion of the toner particles is 60% by mass or more; and using SPm (J/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2 for a SP value of the long-chain acrylate unit and using SPw (J/cm.sup.3).sup.1/2 for a SP value of the ester compound, SPm is 18.00 to 19.00, and SPm and SPw satisfy formula (a).
|SPm−SPw|≤1.50 (a)
MAGNETIC TONER
A magnetic toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a magnetic body, wherein the binder resin comprises a styrene-acrylic resin, the styrene-acrylic resin comprises a monomer unit represented by Formula (1):
##STR00001## where, in Formula (1), R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and R.sup.2 represents a linear alkyl group having C.sub.B carbon atoms, C.sub.B being an integer from 10 to 15; the magnetic body comprises an alkyl group having C.sub.M carbon atoms, on a surface of the magnetic body, C.sub.M being an integer from 4 to 20; C.sub.B and C.sub.M satisfy Formula (3):
|C.sub.M−C.sub.B|≤10 (3), and in a cross-sectional observation of the magnetic toner using a transmission electron microscope, a coefficient of variation of an occupied area ratio of the magnetic body in a specific square grid, is 80.0% or lower.
TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin has a side-chain crystalline polymer B having a monomer unit A made of at least one polymerizable monomer A selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid esters having a linear alkyl group having 18 to 36 carbon atoms, and the toner particle comprises boric acid.
Particle conveying device and image forming apparatus
A particle conveying device includes a storage portion that stores pressure sensitive adhesive particles that contain at least a binder resin, have a pressure-induced phase transition property, and have a sulfur content in a range of 0.1 mass % or more and 0.5 mass % or less relative to the entire pressure sensitive adhesive particles as measured by X-ray fluorescence; and a conveying member that is disposed in the storage portion and rotates about a shaft that extends in one direction inside the storage portion to thereby convey the pressure sensitive adhesive particles in a direction along the shaft inside the storage portion.
TONER
The toner comprises a toner particle that comprises a binder resin-containing core particle and a thermosetting resin-containing shell on the surface of the core particle, wherein the binder resin includes at least one of (i) a vinyl resin and a polyester resin and (ii) a hybrid resin in which a vinyl resin and a polyester resin are bonded; the polyester resin comprises in a main chain thereof a cyclic structure, and the content of the polyester resin in the tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter of the toner is at least 51 mass%; the vinyl resin comprises a prescribed monomer unit; the thermosetting resin is at least one resin selected from melamine resins, urea resins, and oxazoline group-bearing vinyl resins; and the average circularity of the toner is in a prescribed range.
TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
A toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles, the toner particles containing a binder resin containing a vinyl resin and a release agent containing an ester wax, in which in sections of the toner particles, a number average of equivalent circle diameters of sections of domains of the release agent is 0.10 μm or more and 1.5 μm or less, and a standard deviation of the equivalent circle diameters is more than 0.05 and 0.5 or less.
ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER AND ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER
Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner containing at least toner particles, wherein the toner particles contain an amorphous vinyl resin, an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, and an ester wax; the crystalline polyester resin is a crystalline polyester resin obtained by polycondensation of a dicarboxylic acid having a number of carbon atoms in the range of 9 to 14 and a dialcohol having a number of carbon atoms in the range of 9 to 14; the amorphous polyester resin is an amorphous polyester resin containing a constituent unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid having a number of carbon atoms in the range of 9 to 14 or a dialcohol having a number of carbon atoms in the range of 9 to 14; and a sum of the number of carbon atoms of the dicarboxylic acid and the dialcohol is in the range of 18 to 24.