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Magnetic toner for electrophotography

US4137188A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 1, 1978
Grant dateJan 30, 1979
Priority date
Expiry dateFeb 1, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S430/104
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An insulating magnetic toner useful as a one component developer for electro-photography consisting essentially of a ferro-magnetic material, a resin and a charge controlling agent. The preferred toner mixture has an average particle size in the range from about 7 to about 30 .mu.m and is substantially free of particles having a size smaller than 1 .mu.m. The toner is preferably prepared by mixing a ferromagnetic material, a resin and a charge controlling agent, heat kneading, cooling and then granulating the mixture to form fine particles, contacting the pacticles with a hot gas of a temperature higher than the toner softening point and lower than 500.degree. C to fuse particles smaller than about 1 .mu.m to larger particles, cooling and selecting the particles of an average particle size of about 7 to about 30 .mu.m.

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