US Patent Issued to Ricoh on July 8 for "Toner, method for manufacturing the toner, toner accommodating unit, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,166, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Toner, method for manufacturing the toner, toner accommodating unit, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" was invented by Daisuke Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Mitsuaki Hirose (Shizuoka, Japan), Yohichi Kitagawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Masayuki Ukigaya (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Komito (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner is provided. The toner comprises toner base particles, resin particles adhered to surfaces of the toner base particles, and an external additive adhered to the surfaces of the toner base particles. The tone...