Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Takaho Shibata

Junichi Tamura

Hayato Ida

Daisuke Yamashita

Yuya Chimoto

Ryuji Murayama

Takashi Hirasa

Koh Ishigami

Masaharu Miura

Yuichi Mizo

Tomoyo Miyakai

Hitoshi Sano

Wakiko Katsumata

Kenta Mitsuiki

Ryo Natori

Kouichirou Ochi

Takakuni Kobori

Kentaro Kamae

Takeshi Ohtsu

Yosuke Iwasaki

Ryo Nakajima

Ryuji Higashi

Masayoshi Kato

Yuu Nishimura

Shin Kitamura

Akemi Watanabe

Rei Hijikawa

Toru Takahashi

Hironori Minagawa

Takayuki Toyoda

Nobuyoshi Sugahara

Daisuke Tsujimoto

Kazuki Murata

Kazunari Ooyama

Megumi Shino

Hisasuke Kajihara

Takeshi Miyazaki

Masayuki Ikegami

Keiichiro Tsubaki

Keiko Yamagishi

Noriyuki Sato

Tsuyoshi Nagai

Maki Imura

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous polyester A and a crystalline polyester C; the amorphous polyester A has an amorphous polyester segment a1 and a2; the amorphous polyester segment a2 has a monomer unit of a specific alcohol a0; the crystalline polyester C is a polymer having a crystalline polyester segment c2 and a crystalline segment c1 bonded to the end of the crystalline polyester segment c2; the crystalline polyester segment c2 has a monomer unit of a specific alcohol b0; an absolute value of a difference between a carbon number of the linear aliphatic polyhydric alcohol a0 and a carbon number of the linear aliphatic polyhydric alcohol b0 is 4 or less; and SP values of the polyester segment a1 and a2, and the crystalline segment c1 and the crystalline polyester segment c2 satisfy specific relationships.

Toner

A toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin containing an amorphous polyester A and a crystalline polyester C, and a wax, and a silica fine particle, wherein the content of the crystalline polyester C is within a specific range, the softening point of the amorphous polyester A satisfies a specific relationship, and in an X-ray diffraction spectrum under a specific temperature condition for the toner, there is a peak corresponding to the crystalline polyester C, a wax index Aand a crystalline polyester index Aof the toner satisfy a specific relationship, the silica fine particle contains a silica fine particle A having a maximum diameter of primary particle in a specific range, and the average coverages of the surface of the toner before and after the toner is treated with hexane with the silica fine particle A satisfy a specific relationship.

Toner and two-component developer

A toner includes toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and inorganic fine particles, in which in a depth profile of an element distribution in a depth region from the outermost surface of a particle to a depth of 500 nm the depth profile being obtained by an element analysis performed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using the toner as a sample, two or more minimum points of a concentration of a carbon element in the depth region exist, a concentration of an inorganic element becomes a maximum value at a depth position corresponding to each of the minimum points, and the inorganic element is an element derived from the inorganic fine particle.

A toner, comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt, wherein a main component of the binder resin is a polyester resin having specific acid value, the water-soluble polyvalent metal salt is a chloride, nitrate or sulfate of the specific metal, the water-soluble polyvalent metal salt has a solubility in water at 25° C. of 30 to 200 g/100 mL, in a cross-sectional observation of the toner particle, a proportion of the area of domains having a concrete surface area, relative to the total area of domains derived from the water-soluble polyvalent metal salt, is 80 to 100 area %, the expression below is satisfied, where At (area %) denotes the proportion of the total area of domains and Fm (atomic %) denotes the proportion of the polyvalent metal atom relative to the atoms in the toner as detected by X-ray fluorescence analysis.0.02≤≤0.10

A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin containing at least 50 mass % of a polyester resin, wherein the polyester resin contains a polyester resin A having a silicone segment, and in XPS analysis, when X is a ratio of the number of silicon atoms attributable to silicone segments relative to a total number of measured atoms, X1 is a value of the X on the toner particle surface, X2 is a value of the X at a depth of 30 nm from the surface, Z is a ratio of the number of carbon atoms attributable to ester bonds relative to a total number of measured atoms, Z1 is a value of the Z on the toner particle surface and Z2 is a value of the Z at a depth of 30 nm from the toner particle surface, X1, Z1, X2 and Z2 satisfy a specific relationship.

A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a styrene-acrylic resin, the toner being characterized in that the styrene-acrylic resin is a graft polymer having an aliphatic hydrocarbon compound segment and a styrene-acrylic segment, the styrene-acrylic segment has a specific monomer unit, the melting point of the styrene-acrylic segment is from 30&#xb0; C. to 80&#xb0; C., and when the toner is measured using a FT-IR ATR method, the intensity assigned to the styrene-acrylic resin and the intensity assigned to the binder resin satisfy a specific relationship.

A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin including a polyester resin, and a polyolefin resin having a sulfonic acid group, wherein the polyolefin resin having a sulfonic acid group is a polymer in which a vinyl polymer is bonded to a polyolefin, a content ratio of a monomer unit containing a sulfonic acid group in the vinyl polymer is from 1.0 mass % to 20.0 mass %, in a FT-IR spectrum obtained through measurement of a large particle size toner and a small particle size toner resulting from dividing, on a number basis, the toner into two substantially equal parts, a ratio of an intensity of a maximum absorption peak in a range from 1130 cmto 1170 cmwith respect to an intensity of a maximum absorption peak in a range from 1713 cmto 1723 cmexhibits a specific relationship.

Connection normality check of a pair of electric wires is simplified. A circuit check devicethat checks connection normality of a pair of electric wires Land Lincludes, when the pair of electric wires is connected to an exchange, a voltmeterthat measures a first inter-wire potential difference between one end of an electric wire portion pof the electric wire Land one end of an electric wire portion pof the electric wire L, a voltmeterthat measures a second inter-wire potential difference between the other end of the electric wire portion pof the electric wire Land the other end of the electric wire portion pof the electric wire L, and a determinerthat determines whether the measured first inter-wire potential difference agrees with the measured second inter-wire potential difference.

Line verification device, and line verification method

A toner containing a toner particle that contains a binder resin including a polyester resin, and a polyolefin resin having &#x2014;COOM that is a neutralized carboxy group with a monovalent metal ion M, wherein the polyolefin resin having &#x2014;COOM is a polymer in which a vinyl polymer is bonded to a polyolefin, a content of a monomer unit containing &#x2014;COOM in the polyolefin resin having &#x2014;COOM is 1 to 20 mass %, and in a FT-IR spectrum obtained through measurement of a large particle size-side particle group and a small particle size-side particle group obtained by dividing the toner into two substantially equal parts, on a number basis, a ratio of the intensity of a maximum absorption peak in a range from 1545 cmto 1555 cmwith respect to the intensity of a maximum absorption peak in a range from 1713 cmto 1723 cmexhibits a specific relationship.

Toner and method of producing toner

A toner comprises a toner particle including a binder resin, and inorganic fine particles A and silica particles B, wherein the inorganic fine particle A has a rectangular parallelepiped shape; an amount of the inorganic fine particles A is 0.3 to 3.0 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the toner particles; a number average particle diameter of the silica particles B is 80 to 200 nm; a fixing ratio of the inorganic fine particle A is 25% to 70%; where a separation amount of the inorganic fine particles A is denoted by YA (mg), and a separation amount of the silica particles is denoted by YB (mg), YA is 3.00 to 18.0, YA and YB satisfy the following formula,&#x3e;0.75, and a surface potential difference C in a rubbing test using the inorganic fine particle A and the binder resin is &#x2212;70 V to +70 V.

Toner and image forming method

A toner comprises a toner particle and an external additive, the toner satisfies a certain relationship with regard to &#x3c3;l (C/m) and &#x3c3;s (C/m). The toner is divided into two groups i.e. a first group and a second group with inertial classifier, the first group including a larger size of the toner particles, and the second group including a smaller size of the toner particles, and the number of the toner particles in the first group being substantially equal to the number of the toner particles in the second group. Then, al (C/m) represents an absolute value of average surface charge density of the toner included in the first group, and &#x3c3;s (C/m) represents an absolute value of average surface charge density of the toner included in the second group.

A toner containing a toner particle, in which the toner particle contains a binder resin and a pigment, and As and Al satisfy a specific relation, in a case when the toner is divided into two groups i.e. a first group and a second group with an inertial classifier, the first group including a larger size of the toner particles, and the second group including a smaller size of the toner particles, and the number of the toner particles in the first group being substantially equal to the number of the toner particles in the second group. Each of As and Al is a change rate of a surface potential of a pellet type molded product obtained by molding each of the toner in the first group and the toner in the second group under specific conditions is observed using a surface potentiometer under a specific conditions.

A toner that is suppressed from deteriorating owing to its long-term use and can maintain high transferability. The toner includes: a toner particle containing an amorphous polyester serving as a binder resin and a polymer A; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the polymer A includes a graft copolymer of a polyolefin and a vinyl-based polymer unit having a carboxylate anion group, and a metal ion having a valence of 2 or more.

A toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin and a silica fine particle A on a surface of the toner particle, wherein D50 on a number basis of the toner is 3.0 to 6.0 the silica fine particle A is a particle having a particle diameter of 80 to 500 nm, the particle diameter being confirmable by observing the toner with a SEM, and when the average coverage with the silica fine particle A determined by image analysis of a particle group of a small particle diameter side of the toner with a SEM is set to Sand the average coverage with the silica fine particle A determined by image analysis of a particle group of a large particle diameter side of the toner with a scanning electron microscope is set to S, Sis 20 to 70 area %, Sand Ssatisfy S/S&#x2264;0.80.

A toner comprising a toner particle including a binder resin and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein the binder resin is an amorphous polyester resin having a linear alkyl group at a molecular chain terminal; the crystalline polyester resin is a polycondensate of a diol and a dicarboxylic acid; the number of carbon atoms Cof the linear alkyl group, the number of carbon atoms Cof the diol, and the number of carbon atoms Cof the dicarboxylic acid, excluding carbon that belongs to carboxyl groups, satisfy the following relationships; and a glass transition temperature of the toner as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter is from 40.0&#xb0; C. to 55.0&#xb0; C.8&#x2264;C&#x2264;20&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)C/C&#x2265;3.5 and 0&#x2264;|C&#x2212;C|&#x2264;3&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)C/C&#x2265;3.5 and 0&#x2264;|C&#x2212;C|&#x2264;3&#x2003;&#x2003;(3)

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