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Granted Patent B2
US 11,181,846 · App. 16/908,885 · Granted Nov 23, 2021

Toner

Inventors: Tetsuya Kinumatsu (Mishima, JP); Tomohiro Unno (Numazu, JP); Mariko Yamashita (Suntou-gun, JP); Ryo Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Kosuke Fukudome (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G03G9/09733G03G9/083G03G9/0819G03G9/08711G03G9/08755
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Patent No.
US 11,181,846
App. No.
16/908,885
Granted
Nov 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A toner including a toner particle including a binder resin and a crystalline material, wherein in powder dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the toner, where an onset temperature of a storage elastic modulus E′ obtained when a temperature is raised at 20° C./min is denoted by T(A)° C., and an onset temperature of a storage elastic modulus E′ obtained when a temperature is raised at 5° C./min is denoted by T(B)° C., T(A)−T(B) is 3.0° C. or less, in DSC of the toner, a peak temperature of a maximum endothermic peak is from 50.0° C. to 90.0° C., and an amount of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component in the binder resin is from 15% by mass to 60% by mass.

Claims (15)

1. A toner, comprising:

a toner particle comprising a binder resin, a crystalline material and a magnetic body;

an amount of a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble component in the binder resin is 15 to 60% by mass;

a peak temperature of a maximum endothermic peak of the toner in differential scanning calorimetry is 50.0 to 90.0° C.; and

Al is 35.0 to 80.0% in a cross section of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope, where Al is an area ratio of the magnetic body in a range from a contour of the cross section to 400 nm in a direction of a center of gravity of the cross section, wherein

T(A)−T(B) 3.0° C. where T(A)° C. and T(B)° C. are respectively onset temperatures of a storage elastic modulus E′ obtained when a temperature is raised at 20° C/min and by 5° C/min.

2. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein an average number of domains of the crystalline material having a major axis from 20 nm to 300 nm is from 50 to 500 in a cross section of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope.

3. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein

C/(C+D)≤0.20 when C and D are respectively numbers of toner particles having domains of the crystalline material that have a major axis of 500 nm or more, and of toner particles that do not have domains of the crystalline material having a major axis of 500 nm or more in a cross section of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope.

4. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the domains of the crystalline material have an average major axis length of 50 to 300 nm in the cross section of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope.

5. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the crystalline material includes an ester wax.

6. The toner according to claim 5 , wherein the ester wax has a molecular weight of 800 or less.

7. The toner according to claim 5 , wherein 2.00≤|SP (W)−SP (B)|≤4.50 where SP (W) (J/cm 3 ) 1/2/ is an SP value of the ester wax and SP (B)(J/cm 3 ) 1/2 is an SP value of the binder resin.

8. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein an amount of the magnetic body is 25 to 100 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.

9. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein an amount of the magnetic body is 25 to 90 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 28, 2020
From: KINUMATSU, TETSUYA; UNNO, TOMOHIRO; YAMASHITA, MARIKO; NAGATA, RYO; FUKUDOME, KOSUKE
To: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-120148 · Jun 27, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200409283A1 · Dec 31, 2020
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