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Magnetic toner for two component developer and image forming method using the same

US7410740B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 15, 2006
Grant dateAug 12, 2008
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Expiry dateMar 15, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G9/0838
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The developer comprises magnetic toners and the magnetic carriers which forms magnetic ears on the surface of the developing roller. The magnetic toner is of an average particle size 0.01 μm through 0.50 μm and is of octahedron shape that is a convex polyhedron surrounded by eight triangles as a basis, each of the vertexes edges of the octahedron shape toner being in a curved surface shape and having a portion that can be taken as a straight line on the outer periphery of a projected image of the octahedron shape toner. The magnetic ears are electrically charged by the friction between the magnetic toner and the magnetic carriers and the magnetic ears on the developing roller are carried to the electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor. The latent image is developed by the magnetic toners in the magnetic ears, in a small gap between the developing roller and the photoreceptor.

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