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US 2003/0118928 A1Published application
Developing agent and image forming apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshihito Shimada
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Abstract
Electrically semi-conductive carbon nano tube is used as a coloring agent.
Claims16
A developing agent comprising toner particles containing a binder resin and carbon nano tube having an electrical semi-conductivity.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image carrier;
- a developing device arranged to face the image carrier, housing a developing agent comprising toner particles containing a binder resin and electrically semi-conductive carbon nano tubes, to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier to form a developing agent image;
- a transfer device to transfer said developing agent image onto a transfer material;
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- a fixing device to fix said developing agent image transferred onto a transfer material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.