US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 22 for "Toner, image forming apparatus, and image formation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,293, issued on April 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Toner, image forming apparatus, and image formation method" was invented by Masanori Sugahara (Osaka, Japan), Naruo Yabe (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Arakawa (Osaka, Japan), Takeo Mizobe (Osaka, Japan) and Ryota Kobayashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin and an external additive attached to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive includes fluorine-containing particles. The fluorine-containing particles ...