Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and toner storage unit
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Application No.: US16293691Application Date: 2019-03-06
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Publication No.: US10599059B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Namie Suzuki , Kazumi Suzuki , Hisashi Nakajima , Yoshitaka Yamauchi , Kohtaroh Ogino , Akihiro Kaneko
- Applicant: Namie Suzuki , Kazumi Suzuki , Hisashi Nakajima , Yoshitaka Yamauchi , Kohtaroh Ogino , Akihiro Kaneko
- 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: JP2018-044609 20180312
- Main IPC: G03G9/08
- IPC: G03G9/08 ; G03G9/087 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09 ; G03G9/097 ; G03G9/093

Abstract:
A toner is provided. The toner comprises mother particles and an external additive covering the mother particles. The mother particles comprise a binder resin, and the external additive comprises inorganic particles. The inorganic particles comprise small-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 30 to 70 nm and large-size inorganic particles having an equivalent circle diameter of from 150 to 200 nm and a circularity of 0.85 or more. The large-size inorganic particles are 20 to 70 in number per 100 μm2 image area of the toner observed with a field-emission scanning electron microscope.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190278191A1 TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND TONER STORAGE UNIT Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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