Toner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12596315-B2
Application number	US-202318173501-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2023
Priority date	Feb 28, 2022
Publication date	Apr 7, 2026
Grant date	Apr 7, 2026

Abstract

A toner comprising a toner particle and an external additive, wherein the toner particle comprises a core comprising a resin A and a shell comprising a resin B on the surface of the core, the external additive comprises a hydrotalcite particle A, fluorine and aluminum are present in an inner part of the hydrotalcite particle A in line analysis in STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, and a concentration ratio of the number of fluorine atoms relative to aluminum atoms (F/Al) in the hydrotalcite particle A, as determined by primary component mapping of the hydrotalcite particle A in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, is 0.01 to 0.60.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A toner, comprising:
a toner particle and an external additive; the toner particle comprising a core comprising a resin A, and having a shell comprising a resin B on the surface of the core; the external additive comprising a hydrotalcite particle A; and fluorine and aluminum being present in an inner part of the hydrotalcite particle A in line analysis in STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, wherein a concentration ratio of the number of fluorine atoms relative to aluminum atoms (F/Al) in the hydrotalcite particle A is 0.04 to 0.30, as determined by primary component mapping of the hydrotalcite particle A in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner.

2 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the toner particle comprises at least one polyvalent metal element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, calcium and iron, and
a value of a ratio of a content of fluorine in the hydrotalcite particle A relative to a content of the polyvalent metal element in the toner particle is 2.0 to 100.0 in primary component mapping of the toner particle and primary component mapping of the hydrotalcite particle A in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner.

3 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the toner particle contains a wax, and
a ratio by number of toner particles in which domains of the wax having areas of at least 1.0×10 −14 m 2 are present even partially in a region 0.1 μm from the surface of the toner particle is not more than 15% in a cross section of the toner observed using a transmission electron microscope.

4 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein hydrotalcite particle A comprises magnesium.

5 . The toner according to claim 4 , wherein a value of a concentration ratio of the number of magnesium atoms relative to aluminum atoms (Mg/Al) in the hydrotalcite particle A is 1.5 to 4.0, as determined by primary component mapping of the hydrotalcite particle A in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner.

6 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein primary particles of hydrotalcite particle A have a number average particle diameter of 60 to 1000 nm.

7 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the toner particle comprises aluminum as a polyvalent metal element, and
a content of aluminum in the toner particle is 0.01 to 0.07 in primary component mapping of the toner particle in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, when a concentration of the number of carbon atoms in the toner particle is taken to be 100.

8 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein an areal ratio of the hydrotalcite particle A relative to toner particle in an EDS measurement field of view is 0.07 to 0.54%, as measured by the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner.

9 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the toner particle comprises a wax, and
the wax comprises a hydrocarbon wax and an ester wax.

10 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein resin A comprises a styrene acrylic resin, and
resin B comprises a styrene acrylic resin.

11 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein resin A comprises a polyester resin, and
resin B comprises a polyester resin.

12 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein resin A comprises a styrene acrylic resin, and
resin B comprises a polyester resin.

13 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein resin B has a glass transition temperature Tg of 55 to 80° C.

14 . The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the toner particle comprises a wax, and aluminum as a polyvalent metal element,
a ratio by number of toner particles in which domains of the wax having areas of at least 1.0×10 −14 m 2 are present even partially in a region 0.1 μm from the surface of the toner particle is not more than 10% in a cross section of the toner observed using a transmission electron microscope, a content of aluminum in the toner particle is 0.02 to 0.06 in primary component mapping of the toner particle in the STEM-EDS mapping analysis of the toner, when a concentration of the number of carbon atoms in the toner particle is taken to be 100, a number average particle diameter of primary particle of the hydrotalcite particle A is 60 to 800 nm, and a glass transition temperature Tg of resin A is higher than a glass transition temperature Tg of resin B.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Katsura Taiji
• Tanaka Masatake
• Nozaki Dai
• Kawaguchi Shintaro

Classifications

• G03G9/09364

  obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• G03G9/09708

  Inorganic compounds · CPC title

• G03G9/09321

  obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• G03G9/0825

  characterised by their structure; characterised by non-homogenuous distribution of components (microcapsular toners G03G9/093) · CPC title

• G03G9/09314

  Macromolecular compounds · CPC title