Toner
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKOZUE URATANI, YOSHIAKI SHIOTARI, KOKI INOUE
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Abstract
A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle comprises a toner base particle comprising a binder resin, and an organosilicon polymer composite present at a surface of the toner base particle, the organosilicon polymer composite comprises (i) a condensation product of an organosilicon compound, and (ii) a metal compound comprising at least one metal atom selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zirconium and titanium, and the toner satisfies a specific relational equation for the domains of the constituent elements and metal compounds when the toner is analyzed.
Claims8
A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein
- the toner particle comprises
- a toner base particle comprising a binder resin, and
- an organosilicon polymer composite present at a surface of the toner base particle,
- the organosilicon polymer composite comprises
- (i) a condensation product of an organosilicon compound, and
- (ii) a metal compound comprising at least one metal atom selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zirconium and titanium,
- when a ratio of the number of the metal atom to a sum of the numbers of a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a silicon atom, and the metal atom obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on the toner is defined as ME,
- in an EDS mapping image of constituent elements of a cross-section of the toner obtained by analyzing with use of energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, the cross-section of the toner observed with a transmission electron microscope, a ratio of the number of the metal atom to a sum of the numbers of a silicon atom and the metal atom in a region outside a contour of the toner base particle is defined as MX, and
- in the EDS mapping image, in a case where there are domains of the metal compound, and domains with a domain diameter of 10 nm or more are targeted, the number-average diameter of the domains of the metal compound is defined as MN,
- ME is not more than 1.5×10−2,
- MX is 1.00×10−2 to 1.00×10−1, and
- MN is 15 to 80 nm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.