Electrophotographic toner
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMoon-il Jung, Seung-jin Oh, Eun-ha Lee
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Abstract
The disclosure provides an electrophotographic toner including a binder resin; and a light absorber, wherein the light absorber includes a metal nanorod and a surfactant covering a surface of the metal nanorod.
Claims16
An electrophotographic toner, comprising a binder resin and a light absorber, wherein the light absorber includes a metal nanorod and a surfactant covering a surface of the metal nanorod.
A toner cartridge for use in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprising a housing accommodating therein toner that comprises a binder resin and a light absorber,
- wherein the light absorber includes a metal nanorod and a surfactant covering a surface of the metal nanorod, and
- wherein the light absorber is on the surface of the binder resin or is inside of the binder resin.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image carrier having a surface on which to support an electrostatic latent image;
- an image developing unit configured to apply toner to the electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image carrier to thereby develop the electrostatic latent image into a toner image;
- a transferring unit configured to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium, and
- a fusing unit configured to fix the transferred toner image onto the recording medium,
- wherein the toner comprises a binder resin and a light absorber,
- wherein the light absorber includes a metal nanorod and a surfactant covering a surface of the metal nanorod, and
- wherein the light absorber is on the surface of the binder resin or is inside of the binder resin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.