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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2020
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Toru Takatsuna, Osaka, JP;
Sho Sumioka, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particles contain a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The external additive includes resin particles as external additive particles. The resin particles have a blocking rate of no greater than 40% by mass. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 40 nm and no greater than 120 nm. A resin constituting the resin particles is a vinyl resin including repeating units represented by general formulas (1) and (2), and a repeating unit derived from a sulfo group-containing vinyl compound. The content of the repeating unit derived from the sulfo group-containing vinyl compound in the vinyl resin is at least 0.1 mol % and no greater than 3.5 mol %