Developer for use in electrophotography and method and apparatus for image formation
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTatsuo Imafuku, Junichi Saito, Takahiro Bito
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Abstract
In the two-component developer for use in electrophotography containing a toner and a carrier, said toner contains a magnetic powder as an external additive, said carrier is a resin coated magnetic carrier of 6.0 to 8.0 in true specific gravity, and the coating resin is a silicone based resin containing a crosslinking agent having phenyl groups and an aminosilane coupling agent. The crossliking agent in the coating resin for the carrier has phenyl groups in a content ratio of 0.2 to 15% by number.
Claims6
A two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier for use in electrophotography, wherein said toner contains a magnetic powder as an external additive, said carrier is a resin coated magnetic carrier of 6.0 to 8.0 in true specific gravity, and the coating resin is a silicone based resin containing a crosslinking agent having a phenyl group and an aminosilane coupling agent, wherein the toner is mixed with a magnetic fine powder as an external additive, said magnetic fine powder is octahedral in shape and contains 1 to 3 wt % of magnetite having aminosilane groups on the surface thereof, the coating resin of said carrier has a content ratio of the aminosilane coupling agent ranging from 14 to 18 wt %, and a 50% average particle size based on volume of the magnetic carrier coated with the coating resin is 40 to 80 μm.
A method for image formation, the method comprising the step of reversely developing a latent image with a two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier for use in electrophotography, wherein said toner contains a magnetic powder as an external additive, said carrier is a resin coated magnetic carrier of 6.0 to 8.0 in true specific gravity, and the coating resin is a silicone based resin containing a crosslinking agent having a phenyl group and an aminosilane coupling agent, wherein the toner is mixed with a magnetic fine powder as an external additive, said magnetic fine powder is octahedral in shape and contains 1 to 3 wt % of magnetite having aminosilane groups on the surface thereof, the coating resin of said carrier has a content ratio of the aminosilane coupling agent ranging from 14 to 18 wt %, and a 50% average particle size based on volume of the magnetic carrier coated with the coating resin is 40 to 80 μm.
A two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier for use in electrophotography, wherein said toner contains a magnetic powder as an external additive, said carrier is a resin coated magnetic carrier of 6.0 to 8.0 in true specific gravity, and the coating resin is a silicone based resin containing a crosslinking agent having a phenyl group and an aminosilane coupling agent, wherein the toner is mixed with a magnetic fine powder as an external additive, and said magnetic fine powder is octahedral in shape and contains 1 to 3 wt % of magnetite having aminosilane groups on the surface thereof, the coating resin of said carrier has a content ratio of the aminosilane coupling agent ranging from 14 to 18 wt %, and a 50% average particle size based on volume of the magnetic carrier coated with the coating resin is 40 to 80 μm;
- wherein the crosslinking agent of the silicone based resin is represented by at least one of the following structural formulas, in which R represents a phenyl group, or derivatives thereof:
- (1) An alcohol elimination type crosslinking agent:
- R−Si(OCH3)3
- (2) An acetic acid elimination type crosslinking agent:
- (3) An oxime elimination type crosslinking agent:
- (4) An amido elimination type crosslinking agent:
- or
- (5) An acetone elimination type crosslinking agent:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.