Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Minolta Company, Ltd.

Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Junji Machida

Masahiro Anno

Junji Ohtani

Eiichi Sano

Toshitaro Kohri

Masazumi Yoshida

Makoto Kobayashi

Kazuo Ota

Kaoru Furusawa

Hiroshi Hayashi

Susumu Tanaka

Satoshi Asahi

Yoshihisa Terasaka

Kouichi Matono

Chikara Tsutsui

Fumio Masuda

Hiroshi Mizuno

Ryuji Inoue

Naoki Yoshie

Hiroshi Goto

Shuichi Nakagawa

Hitoshi Kato

Yoichi Fujieda

Yasuki Nagai

Masaaki Takama

Atsushi Yamamoto

Tamotsu Shimizu

Toshiya Natsuhara

Akihito Ikegawa

Yoshitaka Sekiguchi

Masahiko Matsuura

Mitsutoshi Nakamura

Tetsumaru Fujita

Minoru Wada

Hiroshi Murasaki

Yuji Enoguchi

Hidetoshi Miyamoto

Ichiro Demizu

Masashi Yamamoto

Kouichi Etou

Tetsuo Sano

Kenichi Kido

Makoto Shimazoe

Yukio Tanigami

Osamu Ebisu

Yuji Shintani

Haruhiko Atarashi

Yoshiko Yaoi

Kunio Takahashi

Syuichi Nakagawa

An electrostatic latent-image developing toner comprising:

Electrostatic latent-image developing toner

A developing device includes a toner bearing member holding a toner on its surface for conveyance of the toner to a development region where the toner bearing member opposes an image bearing member via a predetermined gap therebetween; a regulating member pressed against the surface of the toner bearing member for regulation of the amount of toner conveyed to the development region; and a developing bias source for applying an alternating electric field between the toner bearing member and the image bearing member. The developing device features the use of the toner bearing member including a conductive substrate formed with an elastic layer, an intermediate layer and a surface layer on the surface thereof, respective volume resistances &rgr; and of which layers satisfy a condition &rgr; , the toner bearing member having an arithmetic average surface roughness in the range of 0.8 to 2.5 &mgr;m, and the use of the toner having a volume-average particle size of 3 to 8 &mgr;m.

Developing device

The present invention relates to toner comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner is manufactured by a wet-type granulation method using an organic dispersing agent, an aqueous extract liquid having a surface tension of 50 to 72 mN/m at 25&deg; C., the aqueous extract liquid obtained by mixing 1 part-by-weight toner and 50 parts-by-weight distilled water for 1 hour at 80&deg; C.

Toner for developing electrostatic latent image and manufacturing method thereof

The present invention relates to a developing agent comprising:

Developing agent

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a toner for electrophotography, which comprises at least the steps of: providing a toner composition solution by mixing a binder resin, a colorant, a charge-control agent and an organic solvent; mixing the resulting toner composition solution with a dispersion solution containing a dispersing agent by utilizing a collision shearing force of beads or using a colloid mill method, thereby obtaining an O/W type emulsion; heating the resulting emulsion so as to eliminate said organic solvent; and obtaining a toner by washing and drying precipitated particles, wherein a viscosity .eta..sub.Z of the toner composition solution and a viscosity .eta..sub.B of the dispersion solution satisfies a specified the relationship between .eta..sub.A and .eta..sub.B.

Production method of toner for electrophotography

A developing device according to the present invention has a developer carrying member for conveying a developer to a developing area opposite to an image carrying member with the developer held on its surface and a controlling member for controlling the amount of the developer conveyed to the developing area upon being pressed against the surface of the developer carrying member, the surface of the developer carrying member and/or the surface of the controlling member pressed against the surface of the developer carrying member being composed of an elastic material having a rubber hardness of 20.degree. to 70.degree. and having elongation of 400 to 1200%.

Developing device capable of preventing cracking of developer due to

A development system that contains a developer carrier for carrying a developer on the surface thereof to a development region opposite to an image bearing body, and a regulating member biased into contact with the surface of the developer carrier by a predetermined pressure for regulating an amount of developer carried by a developer transport member. The developer carrier has a surface coated with fine particles with an average particles size of between 3 and 30 .mu.m which are bonded with the surface.

Developing roller having another coating of fine particles

A toner for developing electrostatic images is provided which has good adhesion resistance and good low temperature fixing property, and further can exhibit good image developing performance in various quality aspects including fog resistance, filming resistance, and image density. The toner includes at least a binder resin and a colorant and is characterized in that the toner, prepared as such, has a melt index range of 15 to 40 (g/10 minutes) at 125.degree. C. and the binder resin has a melt index range of 3 to 12 (g/10 minutes) at 150.degree. C.

Toner for developing electrostatic latent images

A regenerating apparatus of a recording medium by removing a printing material therefrom comprises a holder which is arranged in the liquid and has a plurality of holding members for holding the media; a feeder for feeding the medium to the respective holding members successively; a discharger which includes a discharging passage extending from each of the holding member and out of the liquid for discharging the recording medium having been held by the holding member for a specific time; and a remover which is disposed in the liquid and near the passage so as to contact and remove the printing material from the recording medium transported along the passage.

Regenerating apparatus of recording medium

A regenerating apparatus for removing a printing material from a recording medium so as to reuse the recording medium includes a container, a container for accommodating a liquid for swelling the printing material; a guide member for guiding the recording medium, part of which is arranged in the liquid; a rotatable transporting roller for transporting the recording medium along the guide member, so that the printing material on the recording medium is immersed in the liquid; a rotatable transferring roller disposed near the guide member so as to be in contact at a circumferential surface thereof with the recording medium and receive the printing material swollen by the liquid from the recording medium. The surface of the transferring roller is formed with at least one of the materials selected from polyolefin resin, polyester resin, nitrogen containing resin, sulfur containing resin, fluororesin, silicon resin, polyacetal resin, epoxy resin, polyether ether ketone resin, and phenol resin.

Regenerating apparatus for recording medium

A main body of a regenerating apparatus of a recording medium has a conveyor mechanism which conveys a recording medium to be regenerated along a conveyance passage. A cleaning unit is removably mounted on the main body for easy maintenance, cleaning or replacement. Preferably, the cleaning unit has a U-shaped conveyance passage of the recording medium filled up with a cleaning liquid, and an image removing mechanism which applies a physical treatment to the surface of the recording medium. The recording medium is taken in the U-shaped conveyance passage, immersed in the cleaning liquid so that the image on the recording medium is swollen and removed by the image removing mechanism. The image removing mechanism may include a web impregnated with cleaning liquid brought into contact with the recording medium by a roller which may have a built-in heater to cause the printing material on the recording medium to swell and be scraped off by the web.

A monocomponent developer comprising a binder resin, a colorant and first and second offset preventing agents, wherein a softening point of said binder resin (Tm.sub.1), that of said first offset preventing agent (Tm.sub.2) and that of said second offset preventing agent (Tm.sub.3) satisfies relationship;

Developer containing two kinds of wax

An apparatus for regenerating a recording medium has a feeder which feeds a recording medium, a transporter which transports the recording medium, an immersion bath for containing a cleaning liquid for swelling prints and immersing the recording medium in the cleaning liquid, a print remover which removes the prints by subjecting the surface of the recording medium to a physical treatment, and a fluidizing structure for fluidizing the cleaning liquid in a direction opposite to a direction in which the recording medium is transported in the immersion bath.

Apparatus for regenerating recording medium

The present invention provides a cleaning solution for recycling a waste copy paper with toner-images formed on the surface of the copy paper, comprising water, a monoester of bivalent organic acid, a surface active agent and an organic acid.

Cleaning solution for recycling recording member having toner images

The present invention relates to a cleaning liquid which is used for removing an image forming material containing a resin component from surface of a recording medium on which an image is formed by the image forming material in order to permit the recording medium serviceable again as a recording medium, characterized by comprising water, a gelatinizer or a swelling agent which is compatible with water and gelatinizes the resin component of the image forming material, and an enzyme.

Cleaning liquid for recycling copy medium for electrophotography

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Junji Machida