Abstract:
A toner for developing an electrostatic latent image contains a binder resin, a colorant, a wax, and inorganic fine particles. The toner contains the inorganic fine particles content in the range from 1 to 10% by weight, the temperature at which the complex viscosity &eegr;° of the toner in the case of measuring at a frequency of 100 rad/second shows 1000 Pa.s ranges from 125 to 145° C., and the temperature at which the complex viscosity &eegr;° of the toner in the case of measuring at a frequency of 100 rad/second shows 100 Pa.s ranges from 180 to 210° C.
Abstract:
Provided is a full-color toner cartridge in which the toner does not block and which therefore ensures stable formation of high-quality images. The cartridge has a cylindrical container provided with a toner supply port and is detachable from a developing machine. In this, the container is provided with an agitating unit, and the toner to be filled into the container contains wax having a softening point of not higher than 120° C. and satisfies the following formulae (1) and (2): A/(B×D×&pgr;)≦C (C=65) (1) B≧0.5 (2) wherein A indicates the amount of the toner to be filled into the cartridge (g); B indicates the apparent tapped density of the toner (g/cm3); D indicates the inner diameter of the cylindrical container (cm); and &pgr; indicates the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Abstract:
Provided is a toner having good offset resistance and capable of giving non-glaring, high-quality images with high OHP transparency, and a method of image formation with it. The toner includes at least a binder resin, a colorant and a wax. The THF soluble component of the toner, as analyzed through gel permeation chromatography, has a number-average molecular weight falling between 2500 and 5500, a weight-average molecular weight falling between 13000 and 25000, and a peak molecular weight falling between 5000 and 15000, and contains a fraction having a molecular weight of at least 105 in a ratio of at most 10% by weight of the component and a fraction having a molecular weight of at least 104 in a ratio of from 30 to 70% by weight of the component, and the wax in the toner has a DSC endothermic peak falling between 50 and 120° C.
Abstract:
A full-color latent image developing toner composed of toner particles containing a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a surface lubricant, and at least one kind of an external additive, wherein the toner contains at least about 3% the surface lubricant, the toner includes irregular-shaped particles of ML2/A≧125, and when the emission voltage caused by the carbon originated in the binder resin of the toner particles is X and the emission voltage caused by the element originated in the external additive is Y, and when the relationship between X(⅔) and Y are primary-regressed to the straight line passing through origin of a coordinate, the correlation factor of the element originated in at least one external additive is not less than 0.4. As the external additive, a titanium compound obtained by reacting TiO(OH)2 prepared by a wet method and a silane compound is preferably used.
Abstract translation:由包含粘合剂树脂,着色剂和表面润滑剂的调色剂颗粒构成的全色潜像显影调色剂和至少一种外部添加剂,其中调色剂含有至少约3%的表面润滑剂, 调色剂包括ML2 / A> = 125的不规则形状的颗粒,并且当由起源于调色剂颗粒的粘合剂树脂中的碳引起的发射电压为X,并且由外部添加剂产生的元素引起的发射电压为Y时, 并且当X(⅔)和Y之间的关系被初级回归到通过坐标原点的直线时,起源于至少一种外部添加剂的元素的相关系数不小于0.4。 作为外部添加剂,优选使用通过湿法制备的TiO(OH)2和硅烷化合物而得到的钛化合物。
Abstract:
Provided is an image-forming process including a step of forming an electrostatic latent image on a latent image-carrier and a step of developing the latent image by a developer on a developer-carrier disposed facing the electrostatic latent image-carrier, a developer contains a color toner containing a wax which amount is from 1 to 10% by weight of the toner is used, and the developer-carrier wherein a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of the surface thereof of and the average spacing (Sm) of roughness peaks meet the following formula is used; 5.ltoreq.Rz.times.20.ltoreq.Sm. By the process, the conveying property of the developer is good, staining of the surface of the developer-carrier can be prevented, and images having a high quality and excellent in the fixing property over a long period time is obtained even in the case of using oil-less color toners containing a wax.
Abstract:
A reversible display medium capable of repeatedly exhibiting a transparent state and a light-scattering state by an action of at least one of heat, electric field, and magnetic field, the medium comprising a substrate having thereon a recording layer comprising a side-chain high molecular weight liquid crystal, which is a copolymer comprising at least a liquid-crystal monomer component and a non-liquid-crystal monomer component having a substituent capable of making a hydrogen bond.
Abstract:
A method for producing an optical element, the method comprising the steps of: forming a liquid crystal polymer layer on a sheet-form substrate; forming a surface protective layer on the liquid crystal polymer layer; and carrying out a heat-treatment for crosslinking the liquid crystal polymer, or the method comprising the steps of: forming a liquid crystal polymer layer on a sheet-form substrate; carrying out a first heat-treatment for controlling the multidomain structure of the liquid crystal polymer layer; forming a surface protective layer on the liquid crystal polymer layer; and carrying out a second heat-treatment for crosslinking the liquid crystal polymer layer.
Abstract:
A reversible display medium comprising substrate 1 having thereon recording layer 2 containing a side chain type high polymeric liquid crystal capable of repeatedly and reversibly switching between a transparent state and a light-scattered state by the action of heat, an electrical field or a magnetic field, wherein said side chain type high polymeric liquid crystal is a copolymer comprising at least one liquid crystal monomer unit and at least one non-liquid crystal monomer unit having a hydrogen bond-forming substituent, e.g., a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, a sulfonic group or a phosphoric group. The display medium is excellent in durability on repeated use, heat sensitivity, display contrast, and record preservability.
Abstract:
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles that contain a binder resin having a carboxyl group, in which the carboxyl group in the binder resin present on the surfaces of the toner particles forms an alkaline earth metal salt, and an amount of the alkaline earth metal which is detected through ion chromatography of the toner particles is in a range of from 1.00×10−10 mol/g to 0.90×10−6 mol/g.
Abstract:
A shaft-seal device for high-temperature fluid including a seal case (2) formed as a metallic cylindrical structure of a single unit and comprised of a main body portion (2a, 2b, 2c), first and second holding portions (2d, 2e), first and second partition portions (2f, 2h), a channel formation portion (2g) forming a minute annular channel (27) with the outer circumference surface of a rotary shaft (1), and an o-ring holding portion (2i). The seal case is installed in an apparatus housing (8) with first and second o-rings (2m, 2n) in between. The intra-seal case region (A1), in which sealing rings (31, 32, 41, 42, 51, 52) of mechanical seals (3, 4, 5) are provided, and the high-temperature fluid region, which is an intra-apparatus housing region (A), are partitioned by a cooling chamber (28) into and from which coolant (82) is supplied and discharged via feed/discharge coolant paths (80, 81).