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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2021
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Shirakawa, Saitama, JP;
Akio Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Waka Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Nagase, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
External additive particles including a polymer containing a sulfur atom and a nitrogen atom, wherein the polymer includes a vinyl polymer moiety and a siloxane moiety, relative to a total number of carbon atoms, oxygen atoms, and silicon atoms constituting the external additive particles, a ratio of a number of the silicon atoms constituting the external additive particles is 4.0% or more and 25.0% or less, and in surfaces of the external additive particles analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, relative to a total number of carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms, oxygen atoms, silicon atoms, and sulfur atoms, a ratio of a number of the nitrogen atoms is 0.40% or more and 2.50% or less, and a ratio of a number of the sulfur atoms is 0.05% or more and 0.25% or less.