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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1994
Mitsuhiro Takarada, Gunma-ken, JP;
Ichiro Ono, Gunma-ken, JP;
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an electrophotographic toner binder which comprises a silicone-grafted copolymer produced by radical copolymerization of an organopolysiloxane compound represented by the following general formula (I) and another monomer capable of undergoing the radical copolymerization with said organopolysiloxane compound: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sup.2 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms, which may have one or more of an oxygen atom interposed in its carbon chain; R.sup.3 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms; m represents 1, 2 or 3; and n represents an integer from 20 to 200.