Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Takahiro Mizuguchi

Sakae Takeuchi

Yuka Zenitani

Koji Sasaki

Yoshifumi Eri

Yasuo Matsumura

Yasuo Kadokura

Shuji Sato

Manabu Serizawa

Masaaki Suwabe

Takeshi Shoji

Mitsuhiro Shouji

Hisao Morijiri

Satoshi Yoshida

Takao Ishiyama

Michio Take

Kengo Fujiwara

Hiroshi Takano

Eiji Kawakami

Junichi Tomonaga

Yuji Isshiki

Hitomi Akiyama

Takashi Hara

Kazuya Mori

A silica particle includes: a quaternary ammonium salt, in which the following expressions are satisfied, 0.90≤F/F≤1.10, and 5≤F/F≤20, in which Frepresents a maximum frequency value of a pore diameter of 2 nm or less in the silica particles before washing, which is obtained from a pore distribution curve in a nitrogen gas adsorption method, Frepresents a maximum frequency value of the pore diameter of 2 nm or less in the silica particles after washing, which is obtained from the pore distribution curve in the nitrogen gas adsorption method, and Frepresents a maximum frequency value of the pore diameter of 2 nm or less in the silica particles before washing and after sintering at 600° C., which is obtained from the pore distribution curve in the nitrogen gas adsorption method.

Silica particle and method for producing the same

An electric motor control apparatus that alternately switches modulation mode between an asynchronous PWM control, which controls an electric motor by fixing a PWM frequency, and a synchronous PWM control, which controls the electric motor by making the PWM frequency proportional to a drive frequency of the electric motor, wherein when switching the modulation mode, a compensation value is calculated based on a state quantity, which correlates with a component in a rotating coordinate system of a voltage applied to the electric motor and is obtained immediately before switching, and the voltage immediately after switching is compensated for by the compensation value.

Electric motor control apparatus and electric motor control method

Resin particles include resin base particles and silica particles on surfaces of the resin base particles. The silica particles contain a quaternary ammonium salt and have hydrophobized surfaces. A difference (detection temperature A&#x2212;detection temperature B) between a detection temperature A and a detection temperature B is more than 50&#xb0; C., where the detection temperature A is a detection temperature from a pyrolysis product of the quaternary ammonium salt determined by pyrolysis mass spectrometry of the resin particles before cleaning, and the detection temperature B is a detection temperature from the pyrolysis product of the quaternary ammonium salt determined by pyrolysis mass spectrometry of the resin particles after cleaning.

Resin particles and method for manufacturing resin particles

An organic substance-attached porous inorganic oxide particle including porous inorganic oxide particle and an organic substance attached to the surface of the porous inorganic oxide particle. The organic substance-attached porous inorganic oxide particle satisfies a formula below()/2&#x3e;1where Cf represents the amount of carbon (atom %) measured by subjecting the surface of the particle to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) after the particle is washed, and Ce represents the amount of carbon (atom %) measured by subjecting the surface of the particle to X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) after two-minute surface etching of the particle.

Organic substance-attached porous inorganic oxide particle

An electric machine control method includes: calculating a voltage command value based on a torque command value to an electric machine; calculating a modulation rate based on a power-supply voltage and the voltage command value; calculating a compensation gain in accordance with the modulation rate, the compensation gain being used to linearize a relationship between a magnitude of the voltage command value and a magnitude of a fundamental wave component of an output voltage to the electric machine; calculating a compensated voltage command value based on the voltage command value and the compensation gain; controlling the output voltage to the electric machine based on the compensated voltage command value; and limiting the compensation gain to be equal to or less than a predetermined upper limit.

Electric machine control method and electric machine control device

A method for forming an electrostatic latent image developing toner including mixing in a stirring tank a resin particle dispersion with at least a colorant particle dispersion prepared by dispersing a colorant and in some cases with a release agent particle dispersion prepared by dispersing a release agent; aggregating in the stirring tank the resin particles with the pigment particles and the release agent particles to form aggregate particles; and then conducting heating in the stirring tank to fuse the aggregate particles, wherein the method further comprises during a fusion step, suppressing with an accumulation suppression unit accumulation of aggregate particles. The accumulation suppression unit is a magnetic field forming unit that forms a magnetic field either continuously or intermittently. The toner has an average sphericity of at least 0.94 but no more than 0.98 and particle characteristics as defined in the specification.

Electrostatic latent image developing toner, electrostatic latent image developer, image forming apparatus, and apparatus for manufacturing electrostatic latent image developing toner

An electrostatic latent image developing magenta toner includes at least quinacridone pigment, naphthol pigment, and a release agent. Colorant of the toner satisfies conditions (a) and (b): (a) an average primary particle size D50 of a quinacridone pigment represented by formula (1) and an average primary particle size D50 of a naphthol pigment represented by formula (2) are such that the average primary particle size D50 of the quinacridone pigment is smaller than the average primary particle size D50 of the naphthol pigment; and (b) the average primary particle size D50 of the quinacridone pigment is greater than 20 nm, and the average primary particle size D50 of the naphthol pigment is smaller than 200 nm. Formula (1): Here, each of R, R, R, and Ris selected from the group consisting of H, CH, and Cl, Rand Rare different from each other, and Rand Rare different from each other. Formula (2): 

Electrostatic latent image developing magenta toner, electrostatic latent image developer, toner manufacturing method, and image forming method

Disclosed is toner for developing an electrostatic image, which toner has a volume average particle size distribution index (GSDv) of 1.3 or less, and a ratio of the volume average particle size distribution index (GSDv) to a number average particle size distribution index (GSDp), i.e., (GSDv/GSDp), of 0.95 or more. A method suited for producing the toner for developing an electrostatic image comprises the steps of producing a dispersion liquid of flocculated particles by forming the flocculated particles in a dispersion liquid containing at least resin particles dispersed therein, forming adhered particles by admixing a liquid dispersion comprising fine particles dispersed therein with the dispersion liquid comprising the flocculated particles so that the fine particles adhere to the flocculated particles, and forming toner particles by fusing the adhered particles upon heating. This method for producing the toner for developing an electrostatic image provides the toner excellent in chargeability and having a long life.

Toner for developing electrostatic images, method of producing toner for

The present invention provides a method of preparing a toner for electrostatic charge image development comprising the steps of a liquid mixture preparation process for preparing a liquid mixture by mixing at least a resin particle dispersion prepared by dispersing resin particles in a solution including a dispersing agent having a polarity, and a coloring agent particle dispersion prepared by dispersing coloring agent particles in a solution including a dispersing agent having a polarity, an aggregated particle dispersion preparation process for preparing an aggregated particle dispersion by forming aggregated particles in the liquid mixture, and a fusion process for fusing the aggregated particles by heating, wherein the first dispersing agent and the second dispersing agent have the same polarity, a toner for electrostatic charge image development obtained by the method, an electrostatic charge image developer containing the toner and a carrier for electrophotography, and an image forming method comprising the steps of a process for forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image carrying member, a process for forming a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image by a developer layer on a developing carrying member, and a transfer process for transferring the toner image onto a transferring member.

Method of preparing toner for electrostatic charge image development,

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Minami-ashigara, Japan

Takahiro Mizuguchi