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US 8,524,434 B2Granted
Toner and method for manufacturing toner
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsuneyoshi Tominaga, Ryoichi Fujita, Tsutomu Shimano
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Abstract
A toner having a toner particle including a core particle obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable monomer composition containing at least a polymerizable monomer, a colorant, a release agent, a polar resin, and a crystalline polyester in an aqueous medium and an outer shell formed by fixing resin fine particles to the surface of the core particle, wherein the resin constituting the resin fine particles is an amorphous resin and the acid value of the resin fine particles is 4.0 to 50.0 mgKOH/g.
Claims8
A toner comprising:
- a core particle, and
- an amorphous outer shell covering the whole surface of the core particle,
- wherein:
- the core particles comprises a binder resin, a colorant, a releasing agent and a polar resin, and wherein:
- the core particle further comprises a crystalline polyester dispersed therein, and
- the crystalline polyester in the core particle satisfies the following relationship:
- 310 nm≦La≦1000 nm;
- 22 nm≦Lb≦50 nm;
- La/Lb≧10,
- wherein La and Lb respectively represent a length and a width of the crystalline polyester dispersed in the core particle observed in a cross-section of the toner with an transmission electron microscope.
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