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Toner and, developer, toner-containing container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method - Patent # 7575842 - PatentGenius
Toner and, developer, toner-containing container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method
7575842 Toner and, developer, toner-containing container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method
Application: 11/939,075
Inventors: Ishii; Masayuki (Numazu, JP)
Tanaka; Chiaki (Tagata-gun, JP)
Watanabe; Naohiro (Sunto-gun, JP)
Naitoh; Kei (Sunto-gun, JP)
Saito; Takuya (Numazu, JP)
U.S. Class: 430/110.2; 430/137.11
Field Of Search: 430/110.2; 430/137.11
Foreign Patent Documents: 06-186772; 06-332229; 2001-312098; 2002-082490; 2003-021933; 2004-503603; WO 02/05944
Abstract: A toner producing method is provided, which comprises preparing toner base particles in an aqueous medium, wherein the toner base particles comprise resin fine particles, and forming a coating layer on the surface of the toner base particles, wherein the coating layer is formed by attaching or coating a toner functional substance onto the surface of the toner base particles using at least one of supercritical fluids and sub-supercritical fluids.
1. A toner for electrostatic processes comprising: a toner base particle and at least one coating layer uniformly applied to the toner base particle, wherein the toner baseparticle comprises a resin fine particle, the at least one uniformly applied coating layer is selected from the group consisting of a colorant coating layer, a resin coating layer, a charge control agent-coating layer and a release agent-coating layer,and the uniformly applied coating layer is obtained by deposition from a solution or dispersion comprising a supercritical or sub-supercritical fluid.
2. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein a glass transition temperature of the resin fine particle is from 30.degree. C. to 70.degree. C.
3. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein a volume average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is from 3 .mu.m to 12 .mu.m.
4. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the at least one uniformly applied coating layer comprises two or more coating layers selected from the group consisting of a colorant coating layer, a resin coating layer,a charge control agent-coating layer and a release agent-coating layer.
5. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the resin fine particles are produced by a process selected from the group of processes consisting of a milling process, a polymerization process, a microencapsulationprocess and a coacervation process.
6. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein a mass average molecular weight of the resin fine particles is from 1000 to 10,000,000.
7. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the resin fine particle comprises colorant fixed within an inner portion of the resin fine particle.
8. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the at least one uniformly applied coating layer is a colorant coating layer comprising a colorant selected from the group consisting of a dye, a pigment and a mixturethereof.
9. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 8, wherein the colorant is at least one dye selected from the group of dyes consisting of a disperse dye, an oil-soluble dye and a vat dye.
10. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 8, wherein a content of colorant is from 1 to 50 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of toner base particle.
11. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the at least one uniformly applied coating layer is a charge control agent-coating layer wherein a content of charge control agent is 0.5 to 5 parts by mass based on 100parts by mass of toner base particle.
12. The toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1, wherein the at least one uniformly applied coating layer is release agent-coating layer wherein a content of release agent is 1 to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass oftoner base particle, and a melting point of the release agent is from 40 to 160.degree. C.
13. A developer comprising the toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1.
14. A toner-containing container, comprising the toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1.
15. A process cartridge, comprising a latent electrostatic image bearing member and a developing unit configured to develop a latent electrostatic image, wherein the developing unit comprises the toner for electrostatic processes according toclaim 1.
16. An image forming apparatus, comprising a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image-forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the latent electrostatic image bearing member, a developingunit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image comprising a toner to form a visible image, a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image onto a recording medium, and a fixing unit configured to fix the transferred image on therecording medium, wherein the toner is the toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1.
17. An image-forming method, comprising forming a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member, developing the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, transferring the visible image onto arecording medium, and fixing the transferred image on the recording medium, wherein the toner is the toner for electrostatic processes according to claim 1.
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