Nippon Zeon Company, Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Harima Chemicals, Incorporated

Yoshihiro Makuta

Masahiro Yamazaki

Yasushi Joh

Noriaki Kaneko

Shigehiko Oikawa

Chizuko Hayashi

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Minoru Isobe

Katsuyuki Ito

Yoshimichi Katagiri

Jun Saito

Yuzo Horikoshi

Makoto Koshi

Hiroaki Naito

Yasuharu Takeuchi

Hitoshi Kusaba

Takayasu Akiyama

Tosikuni Maruoka

Mitsuo Ueno

Yoshiaki Ishibashi

Hiroichi Ishihara

A toner binder comprising a crosslinked polyester resin obtained by using 0.1 to 3 mol % of trimellitic acid and 0.1 to 5 mol % of an epi-bis type epoxy in combination as crosslinking components, said binder having a number average molecular weight (Mn) in the chromatogram determined by a gel permeation chromatography on the non-gel portion of the polyester resin, of 2,000 to 4,000, a ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight average molecular weight to the number average molecular weight of 10 to 25 and a (percent gel) of the residue unsoluble in tetrahydrofuran solvent of 1 wt % or less. A toner composition for flash fixing comprising the above-described binder as an essential constituent component. The toner and the toner binder exhibit good fixability and void resistance upon flash fixing and produce little fixing odor.

Toner binder for flash fixing, toner, electrostatic photographic

A non-magnetic one-component developer suitable for use in a contact or non-contact development system. The developer comprises 100 parts by weight of colored fine particles, which comprises a binder resin and a colorant, and 0.3-10 parts by weight of at least one fine inorganic powder selected from (i) a fine inorganic powder (I) obtained by subjecting a fine inorganic powder having an average particle size of 0.1-10 .mu.m and a heating loss (under drying conditions of 150.degree. C. and 1 hour) of at most 1 wt.% to a hydrophobicity-imparting treatment with a silicone oil and (ii) a fine inorganic powder (II) obtained by subjecting a fine inorganic powder having an average particle size of 0.1-10 .mu.m to a two-step hydrophobicity-imparting treatment with at least one compound selected from silane coupling agents and silazane compounds and then further with a silicone oil.

Non-magnetic one-component developer

A method of manufacturing a microporous hollow fiber having a high permeability to water characterized in that a spinning solution of (A) polyacrylonitrile, (B) an acrylonitrile copolymer, or (C) an admixture of (A) and (B) in an organic solvent is extruded from an annular slit, while simultaneously extruding an organic core liquid which is a solvent for (A), (B) and (C) or a swelling agent capable of swelling them from an orifice encircled by the annular slit and introducing the extruded spinning solution with the core liquid into an aqueous coagulating bath to coagulate the spinning solution to form the hollow fiber.

Method of manufacturing hollow fiber

A method of manufacturing a hollow fiber includes the steps of:

In a cutting apparatus wherein an object is cut in such a manner that a cutting blade is rotated relatively to the object, in which the cutting blade is constructed as a straight blade having a straight cutting edge which is defined by:

Cutting apparatus for potting material with hollow fibers embedded

A hollow-fiber permeability apparatus includes a housing having a permeating region, a bundle of permeable-wall hollow fibers in the permeating region, means for supplying a first fluid flowing between the exteriors of the fibers, another means for passing a second fluid through the interiors of fibers such that materials selectively permeate through the walls of the fibers, and an enlarged cross-section portion to define at least one compartment between the bundle and a wall of the housing and having an inlet opening for introducing the first fluid into the housing, the permeating region having a flattened cross-section in the direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the fibers, and the enlarged cross-section portion being formed at least along substantially the whole lengths of the longer side of the cross section of the permeating region.

Hollow fiber permeability apparatus

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