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US 2023/0143526 A1Published application
Antimicrobial toner particles
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsVarun Sambhy, Eliud Robles Flores, Douglas Allen Gutberlet, Paul F. Sawicki
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Abstract
An antimicrobial toner particle composition is disclosed. The antimicrobial toner particle composition includes a binder resin, and an antimicrobial material in an effective antimicrobial amount comprising copper oxide. An image forming apparatus is also disclosed, capable of forming a fused antimicrobial image on a recording medium.
Claims20
An antimicrobial toner particle composition, comprising:
- a binder resin;
- and
- an antimicrobial material in an effective antimicrobial amount comprising copper oxide.
An antimicrobial toner particle composition, comprising:
- a binder resin comprising a polystyrene/acrylate resin;
- and
- copper oxide present in the antimicrobial toner particle composition from about 0.2 % to about 5.0 % based on a total weight of the antimicrobial toner particle composition.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a photoreceptor having:
- at least one developer station, the developer station which develops an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the photoreceptor to form an antimicrobial toner image comprising a binder resin, and an antimicrobial additive present in an antimicrobial toner particle composition from about 0.2 % to about 5.0 % based on a total weight of the antimicrobial toner particle composition comprising copper oxide;
- at least one transfer device for transferring the antimicrobial toner images to a recording medium;
- and
- a fuser station for fixing the antimicrobial toner image transferred to the recording medium by heating the recording medium, thereby forming a permanently fused antimicrobial image on the recording medium.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.