Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Takahisa Tatekawa

Takahiro Yamashita

Daisuke Tomita

Masaru Takahashi

Yukiaki Nakamura

Daisuke Ishizuka

Noriyuki Mizutani

Kotaro Yoshihara

Narumasa Sato

Erina Saito

Yuji Isshiki

Daisuke Noguchi

Kazuhiko Nakamura

Kiyohiro Yamanaka

Yuka Kawamoto

Yuta Saeki

Takashi Hara

Kazuya Mori

Akitsugu Seto

Shinichi Murase

Yuya Kato

Kohei Manabe

A method for producing resin particles includes drying resin particles in a wet state by passing, without circulating, the resin particles through a drying tube together with a first gas, the resin particles being ones that undergo pressure-induced phase transition. The drying tube has an inlet through which the resin particles are fed into the drying tube, at least one gas blowhole through which a second gas is blown over the resin particles passing through the drying tube, and an outlet through which the resin particles are ejected from the drying tube, and the second gas is blown out of the gas blowhole at a velocity of 50 m/s or more.

Method for producing resin particles and dryer

A method for producing resin particles includes: mixing a binder resin and a dye at temperature T that satisfies formula (1) below to thereby obtain a mixture; and emulsifying the mixture, a basic compound, a water-based solvent, and a surfactant to thereby obtain a resin base particle dispersion:the melting point1 of the dye≤the temperature≤the thermal decomposition temperature2 of the binder resin.  Formula (1)

Method for producing resin particles and method for producing toner

A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles. The aggregating includes stirring the dispersion in the aggregating at a required stirring power of 1.0 kW/mor more and 6.0 kW/mor less per unit volume, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), in which

Preparing method of electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developing toner, and electostatic charge image developer

A method for producing a resin fine particle includes dissolving or melting an oily mixture containing at least a polyester resin, a base, and a basic dye while applying a shearing force to the oily mixture, and emulsifying the dissolved or molten oily mixture by adding a surfactant and an aqueous medium while applying a shearing force to the dissolved or molten oily mixture to prepare a dispersion liquid of the resin fine particle. The resin fine particle includes the polyester resin and the basic dye, has a volume average particle diameter of 0.05 μm or more and 1 μm or less, and has a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle of 0.8 or more.

Resin fine particle, thermoplastic resin particle, and method for producing resin fine particle

A resin fine particle includes a polyester resin; and a basic dye, in which a volume average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.05 μm or more and 1 μm or less, and a ratio of a concentration of the basic dye in a center of gravity portion of the resin fine particle to a concentration of the basic dye in a surface layer portion having a depth of 10 nm or less from a surface of the resin fine particle is 0.8 or more.

An electrostatic-image developing toner contains toner particles containing a polyester resin having an acid value of from 10 mg KOH/g to less than 15 mg KOH/g. The toner particles have a surface with an acid value in a range from 0.3% to 1.7% of the acid value of the polyester resin. The toner particles have a melt viscosity of from 1,800 Pa&#xb7;s to 3,800 Pa&#xb7;s at 100&#xb0; C.

Electrostatic-image developing toner, electrostatic image developer, and toner cartridge

An electrostatic charge image developer includes: a toner that includes toner particles which contain a polyester resin and a styrene (meth)acrylic resin and form a sea-island structure which includes a sea portion containing the polyester resin and an island portion containing the styrene (meth)acrylic resin on a surface of the toner particle, and has an exposure rate of the styrene (meth)acrylic resin in a range of from about 5 atom % to about 20 atom %; and an external additive, and a carrier whose fluidity and bulk density under environment of a temperature of 25&#xb0; C. and a humidity of 50% satisfy Expression: 65.0&#x2264;fluidity&#xd7;bulk density&#x2264;72.5.

Electrostatic charge image developer, developer cartridge, and process cartridge

An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a polyester resin which includes a condensed polymer of a polyvalent carboxylic acid and a polyol which contains ethylene glycol in an amount of from about 40% by weight to about 90% by weight with respect to a total amount of the polyol, and an external additive that contains silica particles in which a product of a volume average particle diameter D50 (nm) and a BET specific surface area SA (m/g) is from about 1.4&#xd7;10to about 5.0&#xd7;10.

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