Toner and method for producing toner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9851650-B2
Application number	US-201615146817-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 4, 2016
Priority date	May 8, 2015
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

A toner contains a styrene acrylic resin, a block polymer, and an organosilicon polymer, in which the organosilicon polymer has a specific partial structure, the block polymer has a polyester segment and a vinyl polymer segment, the melting point is 55° C. or more and 90° C. or less, the mass ratio of the polyester segment to the vinyl polymer segment is 40/60 to 80/20, and the polyester segment has a specific unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A toner, comprising:
a toner particle including a surface layer,
wherein,
the toner particle comprises a styrene acrylic resin and a block polymer,
the surface layer comprises an organosilicon polymer,
the organosilicon polymer has a partial structure represented by Formula (1) or (2) shown below,

in Formulae (1) and (2), L represents a methylene group, an ethylene group, or a phenylene group,
the block polymer has a polyester segment C and a vinyl polymer segment A,
a melting point (Tm) of the block polymer is 55° C. or more and 90° C. or less,
a ratio (C/A ratio) of the polyester segment C to the vinyl polymer segment A is 40/60 or more and 80/20 or less, and
the polyester segment C has a structural unit represented by Formula (3) shown below,

in Formula (3), m and n each independently represent an integer of 4 or more and 16 or less.

2. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the block polymer is 15000 or more and 45000 or less.

3. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein the vinyl polymer segment A has a unit derived from styrene.

4. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein an absolute value of a difference (ΔSP value) between an SP value of the styrene acrylic resin and an SP value of the block polymer is 0.03 or more and 0.25 or less.

5. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a density of a silicon atom on a surface of the toner particle determined by Expression (5) shown below in X ray photoelectron spectrometry (ESCA) of the surface of the toner particle is 1.0 atomic % or more,
{ dSi /( dC+dO+dSi+dS )}×100  (5),

wherein, in Expression (5), dC represents a density of a carbon atom, dO represents a density of an oxygen atom, dSi represents a density of the silicon atom, and dS represents a density of a sulfur atom.

6. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein a content of the organosilicon polymer is 0.5% by mass or more and 2.0% by mass or less based on a total mass of the toner particle.

7. The toner according to claim 1 , wherein m and n in Formula (3) above each independently represent an integer of 6 or more and 12 or less.

8. A method for producing the toner according to claim 1 , the method comprising the steps of:
granulating a polymerizable monomer composition containing a polymerizable monomer capable of generating the styrene acrylic resin, the block polymer, and a silicon compound capable of generating the organosilicon polymer in an aqueous medium, and
polymerizing the polymerizable monomers.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Isono Naoya
• Nakagawa Yoshihiro
• Takada Harumi
• TAGAWA Reo
• Kuroki Shiro
• Yoshida Sara

Classifications

• G03G9/0806

  whereby chemical synthesis of at least one of the toner components takes place · CPC title

• G03G9/08788 Primary

  Block polymers · CPC title

• G03G9/08797

  characterised by their physical properties, e.g. viscosity, solubility, melting temperature, softening temperature, glass transition temperature · CPC title

• G03G9/08795

  characterised by their chemical properties, e.g. acidity, molecular weight, sensitivity to reactants · CPC title