Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and toner stored unit
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Application No.: US15536531Application Date: 2015-11-26
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Publication No.: US10310399B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Natsuko Matsushita , Tomomi Suzuki , Kohtaroh Ogino , Tohru Moriya
- Applicant: Natsuko Matsushita , Tomomi Suzuki , Kohtaroh Ogino , Tohru Moriya
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-256990 20141219; JP2015-147500 20150727; JP2015-223698 20151116
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/005884 WO 20151126
- International Announcement: WO2016/098290 WO 20160623
- Main IPC: G03G9/08
- IPC: G03G9/08 ; G03G9/087 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
Provided is a toner including at least a binder resin, and having peak ratio W/R of from 0.20 to 0.70 when measured with FT-IR according to ATR method, W/R being a ratio of height W of maximum spectral peak attributed to bisphenol A skeleton of the toner and observed at from 1,480 cm−1 to 1,520 cm−1 to height R of maximum spectral peak attributed to carbonyl group of the toner and observed at from 1,700 cm−1 to 1,750 cm−1, wherein molecular weight distribution of the toner obtained by GPC of THF-soluble component of the toner has main peak in a range of from 1,000 to 10,000, half value width of the molecular weight distribution is a molecular weight of 20,000 or less, and content of a THF-insoluble component in the toner is from 5% by mass to 40% by mass.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180329326A1 TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND TONER STORED UNIT Public/Granted day:2018-11-15
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