Binder resin for toner and toners
AssigneeMitsui Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsTomoya Terauchi, Keiichi Ishikawa, Linwood Blanton Muire, III
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Abstract
A binder resin for toner which is excellent in low-temperature fixing property and offset resistance as well as smear resistance, while responding to the demand of the market from the perspectives of environmental protection, such as being free from a bisphenol A structure and tin, and a toner using the same. The binder resin for toner can be obtained using a catalyst containing titanium or germanium, preferably comprises the structure derived from branched or alicyclic alcohols, and comprises the structure derived from terephthalic acid as the acid component, which represents greater than or equal to 60 mol % with respect to the number of moles of all acid components, and a toner using the same.
Claims7
A binder resin for toner comprising a polyester structure comprising a structure derived from carboxylic acid and a structure derived from alcohol, wherein
- the polyester structure contains the structural unit of the following formula [I] in an amount of 1 mol % or less with respect to all the structural units derived from alcohol:
- the content of tin is 5 ppm or less;
- the content of an element selected from titanium, germanium and aluminum ranges from 10 ppm to 1500 ppm;
- the melting temperature is 110° C. or higher, and
- the resin further comprises 0.1 to 10 mol % of a structural unit derived from isocyanate compound based on the sum of all the structural units derived from carboxylic acid and of all the structural units derived from alcohol equaling 100 mol %.
The binder resin for toner comprising a polyester structure comprising a structure derived from carboxylic acid and a structure derived from alcohol, wherein the binder resin is obtained
- from 10 to 60% by mass of polyester resin (A) having an OH number of 30 to 90 KOH mg/g and glass transition temperature of 0 to 50° C., and
- 40 to 90% by mass of polyester resin (B) having an OH number of 10 KOH mg/g or less and a molecular weight of 1000 to 4000, and comprising at least 10 mol % of a structure derived from isophthalic acid, with respect to 100 mol % of all the units derived from the alcohol constituting the polyester, and
- from polyvalent isocyanate;
- the structural unit of the following formula [I] constitutes 1 mol % or less of all the structural units derived from alcohol;
- and
- the melting temperature is 110° C. or higher.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.