Patent ID: 7288355

Claim:
A carrier for electrophotography developers comprising a magnetic powder dispersed binder resin, which carrier is obtainable by mixing a binder resin material and a magnetic powder, suspending a resulting mixture in an aqueous medium and curing, wherein the binder resin material comprises: (A) a polysiloxane compound having an epoxy group as a functional group having an epoxy group has an epoxide equivalent weight of from 200 to 1500 g/mol, (B) a polysiloxane compound having a group capable of ring-opening addition reaction with the epoxy group of the polysiloxane compound (A) comprising at least one group selected from an amino group, carboxyl group, mercapto group and carbinol group, and the binder resin is a silicone resin prepared by hardening with ring-opening addition reaction of an epoxy group.