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Title:
TONER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2010026386
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a toner which efficiently absorbs irradiation energy and achieves rapid heat fixing, and an energy-saving practical image forming apparatus using the same.

The toner includes a capsule comprising a core material and a first shell (or coating shell) material coating the core material. The core material is a solution comprising water, urea and a solvent which dissolves or swells a resin constituting the toner, and when the toner is fixed, the solution generates heat upon irradiation with microwaves and is allowed to elute from the shell to fix the toner on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a microwave applicator and uses the toner.


Inventors:
KAGEYAMA HIROYUKI
Application Number:
JP2008189877A
Publication Date:
February 04, 2010
Filing Date:
July 23, 2008
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Assignee:
SHARP KK
International Classes:
G03G9/08; G03G9/087; G03G15/20; H05B3/20; H05B6/64
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Eisuke Fujimoto
Masayoshi Kanda
Akio Miyao