EP0067687A2 - Magnetische Tinte oder Jet-ink - Google Patents

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EP0067687A2
EP0067687A2 EP82303043A EP82303043A EP0067687A2 EP 0067687 A2 EP0067687 A2 EP 0067687A2 EP 82303043 A EP82303043 A EP 82303043A EP 82303043 A EP82303043 A EP 82303043A EP 0067687 A2 EP0067687 A2 EP 0067687A2
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Mamoru Soga
Keiichi Yubakami
Nobuo Sonoda
Wataru Shimotsuma
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    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
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  • This invention relates to an improvement of magnetic fluid. Concretely, it relates to an improvement of the hue of magnetic fluid.
  • Usual magnetic fluid is a liquid in which magnetic fine particles of magnetite or the like having 0 a particle size of 50-200 A are suspended in a dispersion medium by the aid of surfactant. It has a black-brown color, and it keeps stable for a long period of time so that neither sedimentation nor aggregation readily takes place in it.
  • dispersion medium for such magnetic fluid paraffin oil, ester oil, silicone oil, water and the like are used.
  • the surfactant carboxylic acids such as oleic acid, linoleic acid and the like, as well as cationic surfactants and nonionic surfactants, are used.
  • Magnetic fluid finds use in extensive fields such as sealing agent, lubricant, sink and float separation, oil-water separating agent, recording material and the like.
  • the magnetic fluid of this invention can be used in all the above-mentioned fields, and its excellent characteristic properties can be exhibited particularly in the field of recording material.
  • a magnetic fluid diluted with a dispersion medium to an appropriate viscosity or its mixture with a dye has hitherto been used.
  • the color of this ink is dependent upon the dispersed fine magnetic particles.
  • the fine magnetic particle is y-ferrite, magnetite, Mn ferrite, Ba ferrite, Fe-Zn ferrite or Mn-Zn ferrite, it apparently has a black or black-brown color, but it turns to light brown when it is attached on a support such as paper or the like. This tendency becomes stronger as the magnetic particles become finer Y.
  • an ink in which a magnetite dispersion type of magnetic fluid is used is a liquid having a black-brown color.
  • the color of the image turns from black-brown to light brown in several weeks.
  • the color change is due to that the dispersed magnetic fine particles are oxidized by air oxygen to form iron oxide (Fe 2 0 3 ).
  • iron oxide Fe 2 0 3
  • inks using other magnetic fine particles show no great color change, their black-brown color is inclined to light brown from the beginning.
  • the color of magnetic fluid can be converted from brown to black by adding a dye as a colorant to the magnetic fluid.
  • a magnetic fluid containing a dye is formed into an image on white high quality paper, the color of image has a more intense light brown hue than the color of magnetic fluid itself. This is due to the difference in permeability into paper between magnetic fine particles and dye molecule. While the magnetic particle has a size of 0 50-200 A, the dye molecule has a size of about o several ten A or less so that the latter has a greater permeability into high quality paper and the dye molecule reaches the backside of paper by permeation. Thus, there arises a great difference between the color of magnetic fluid and that of image, which is an important fault of dye-containing magnetic fluid used as an ink.
  • the object of this invention consists in providing magnetic fluid having various hue. Particularly it consists in providing a magnetic fluid which, when used as a recording material on a high quality paper is free from color separation between magnetic particle and coloring pigment particle and can give a black-colored image or an arbitrary single color image.
  • the magnetic fluid of this invention can be obtained by stably dispersing coloring pigment particles in a liquid prepared by dispersing magnetic particles by the aid of surfactant.
  • the magnetic fluid of this invention is characterized by being constituted of magnetic particles stably dispersed by the aid of surfactant and colloidal coloring pigment particles.
  • colloidal particles In general, typical colloidal particles have a o o size of about 10 A to several 1000 A.
  • the size of colloical coloring pigment particle to be dispersed in this magnetic 0 fluid is 50-1,000 A. More preferably, the colloidal coloring pigment particle has a size comparable to that of the stably dispersed magnetic particle, namely, 50-0 200 A, from the viewpoint of dispersion stability and permeability into paper.
  • a pigment exhibits the maximum hiding power when its size is 0.2-0.3 u, and pigments usually available commercially have this order of size. Howe- ever, since the pigment to be dispersed in the magnetic fluid of this invention should most preferably have a size comparable to that of the magnetic particle in the magnetic fluid, it is necessary to make the usually available pigment more finely divided.
  • the method for dispersing a pigment into a dispersion medium it is recommendable to pulverize a mixture of pigment, dispersing medium and dispersion stabilizer for a long period of time by means of ball mill, attritor, sand grinder or the like.
  • organic pigments are more preferable than the other in point of coloring power and easiness of pulverization and dispersion. Since inorganic pigments have higher specific gravity and hardness than organic pigments, it takes a longer period of time to pulverize and disperse inorganic pigments than to do organic pigments. Therefore, in the case of inorganic pigments, it is allowable to add a dispersion stabilizer in synthesizing the pigment by wet process before the pigment particle grows up to form a large particle, by which a pigment having a small particle size can be produced.
  • the inorganic pigments have a structure similar to that of magnetic particle such as ferrite, which can be dispersed into a form of colloid by a process similar to the wet process for the production of magnetic fluid.
  • surfactants exhibit excellent dispersion stability.
  • Surfactants include anionic surfactants, cationic surfactants, nonionic surfactants, etc., any of which exhibit a dispersing action.
  • the action greatly varies with its combination with pigment and dispersion medium. Therefore, surfactants having a functional group readily adsorbable on the pigment are more preferable.
  • the dispersion can be successfully achieved by using a long chain aliphatic carboxylic acid giving a carboxylic acid ion having a strong affinity to metallic oxide, such as oleic acid, or its salt.
  • nonaqueous dispersion media water or nonaqueous dispersion media can be used.
  • the nonaqueous dispersion media include hydrocarbon compounds such as paraffins, aromatic compounds, alicyclic compounds and the like; ethers and esters of aromatic and aliphatic compounds; monohydric and polyhydric alcohol compounds; silicone compounds such as decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane, octadecamethylcyclononasiloxane and the like; and so on.
  • these dispersion media preferably have as low a volatility as possible. Therefore, compounds having a boiling point not lower than 100 0 C are suitable for use as a solvent for the magnetic fluid.
  • ferromagnetic particles Co, Ni, Fe, their alloys and ferrite compounds can be thought of, among which ferrite compounds are more preferable from the viewpoint of dispersion stability in the presence of surfactant.
  • ferrite compounds y-ferrite, as well i as simple divalent ferrites M2+Fe3+204: M is metal atom) such as Mn ferrite, magnetite, Co ferrite, Ni ferrite and the like, can be referred to.
  • multi-component ferrites Ni-Zn ferrite, Fe-Zn ferrite, Mn-Zn ferrite, Mn-Fe ferrite, Fe-Ni ferrite and the like can also be referred to.
  • the multi-component ferrites are resistant to oxidation in the air, and the oxidation hardly progresses particularly in case of Mn-Zn and Ni-Zn ferrites. Further, in a recording process in which as high a magnetization as possible in low magnetic field is required (for example, magnetofluidography, Japanese Patent Kokai (Laid-Open) No. 23,534/79), Mn-Zn ferrite is suitable.
  • inorganic pigments a variety of ones can be utilized.
  • blue-colored pigments cobalt blue, ultramarine, Prussian blue, cerulean blue, manganese blue, tungsten blue, molybednum blue and the like can be referred to.
  • red-colored pigments red oxide, red lead oxide, molybdenum red, cobalt red and the like can be referred to.
  • black-colored pigments carbon black can be referred to as a typical one.
  • pigments of various colors can be used in accordance with the color of magnetic fluid.
  • organic pigment usable in this invention the followings can be referred to.
  • blue-colored pigment there can be referred to phthalocyanine pigments having a high coloring power such as copper phthalocyanine, copper chloride phthalocyanine, metal-free phthalocyanine, sulfonated copper phthalocyanine and the like; as well as Erioglaucine (Peacock Blue Lakes), Gracia Peacock Blue (Faste Colors), Rhoduline Peacock Blue, Victoria Blue, Methyl Violet (tungstic acid), Methyl Violet (molybdic acid), Methyl Violet (tannic acid lakes) and the like.
  • red-colored pigment there can be referred to Para Red, Lithol Rubine, Permanent Red 2B, Pigment Scarlet, Lake Red C, Scarlet Lake 2R, Rose Toner (Fanal Color), Pigment Rubine G (barium, strontium and calcium lakes), Pigment Rubine 3G (barium, strontium and calcium lakes), Alizarine Lake, Lithol Red (sodium salt, barium salt and calcium salt), Toluidine Toner and the like.
  • the pigments of phthalocyanine type particularly have a very high coloring power and are excellent in light resistance, chemical resistance and heat resistance, so that they are most preferable as the coloring pigment used in this invention. It is needless to say that the above-mentioned pigments are nothing other than some examples for the explanation of this invention, and they do not limit the invention.
  • multistylus 1 is set on base pedestal 5, and magnet for protrusion 2 is attached by bonding to the multistylus 1 in order to magnetize the latter.
  • the magnet 2 for protrusion is equipped with a feeding magnet 4, by which magnetic fluid is sucked up from the magnetic fluid tank 10 and magnetic fluid 3 is fed to magnet for protrusion 2 and multistylus 1.
  • a protruded port 6 of magnetic fluid 3 having the form shown in Figure 2 is formed on multistylus 1.
  • a mixture consisting of 100 g of copper phthalocyanine, 50 cc of oleic acid and 750 cc of kerosene was pulverized and dispersed by means of sand grinder (1,600 rpm) for a time period of 7 days.
  • the resulting dispersion was mixed with a paraffin base Mn-Zn ferrite dispersion so that the ratio of copper phthalocyanine to ferrite particle came to 1:10 by weight, and viscosity of the dispersion was adjusted to about 6 cp at 20 0 C with paraffin.
  • recording was carried out by magnetofluidography (construction of the apparatus was as shown in Figure 1).
  • the color of magnetic fluid was blue-black, and the color of the printed image was also blue-black. Neither blurring nor separation of color was observable on the high quality paper. Hue of the printed image hardly changed during a period of several months.
  • viscosity of the magnetic fluid was adjusted to 6 cp at 20 0 C for the reason that, in magnetofluidography, a lower viscosity of magnetic fluid gives a more ready response of magnetic fluid to electric signal and a clearer image. If the viscosity exceeds 20 cp (20°C), the response of magnetic fluid to electric signal becomes difficult to occur and a clear image is unobtainable. Since a paraffin base magnetic fluid having a viscosity of 6 cp at 20 0 C keeps a viscosity of about 10 cp at 0°C, the present recording experiment was carried out by using a magnetic fluid of which viscosity had been adjusted to 6 cp at 20°C.
  • a mixture consisting of 100 g of Prussian blue, 50 cc of oleic acid and 700 cc of paraffin was pulverized and dispersed for 10 days by means of sand grinder (1,600 rpm).
  • the resulting dispersion was mixed with a paraffin base Mn-Zn ferrite dispersion so that the ratio of Prussian blue to ferrite particles came to 1:5 by weight.
  • a recording experiment was carried out by magnetofluidography.
  • the color of the magnetic fluid was blue-black, and the printed image also had the same blue-black color. Neither blurring nor separation of color was observable on high quality paper. This sample of printed image scarcely showed a change of hue during several months.
  • Example 3 The experiment of Example 3 was repeated, except that the Prussian blue was replaced with ultramarine.
  • the printed image had the same blue-black color as that of magnetic fluid. Neither blurring nor separation of color was observable on high quality paper. No change was observable in hue during several months.
  • a mixture consisting of 100 g of carbon black (M5, manufactured by Mitsubishi Kasei K.K.) and 800 cc paraffin was pulverized and dispersed by means of sand grinder (1,600 rpm) for 7 days.
  • the resulting dispersion was mixed with the copper phthalocyanine dispersion obtained in Example 1 and a paraffin base Mn-Zn ferrite dispersion so that the ratio of copper phthalocyanine, carbon black and ferrite particles came to 1:1:10 by weight.
  • the magnetic fluid was recorded on a high quality paper by magnetofluidography.
  • the color of the printed image was black, and the color of the magnetic fluid was also black. Neither blurring nor separation of color was observable on high quality paper.
  • the hue of the printed image scarcely changed during several months.
  • a magnetic fluid which, when used as a recording material, enables a high speed recording, shows no separation of color on high quality paper and gives a high quality record having a stable hue.
  • the magnetic fluid of this invention has been developed as a recording ink utilizing the phenomenon of protrusion of magnetic fluid under magnetic force, it is also usable as a recording ink for ink jet, ball point pen and the like.

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EP0178078A1 (de) * 1984-09-19 1986-04-16 Er Fluid Developments Limited Elektrisch gesteuerte progressive Reibungsvorrichtung zur Drehmomentübertragung
EP0208391A3 (de) * 1985-03-19 1988-08-10 Ferrofluidics Corporation Elektrisch leitende Magnetflüssigkeit und Verfahren zur Herstellung und Anwendung derselben
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GB2277330A (en) * 1993-04-21 1994-10-26 Dotspec Ltd Magnetic techniques in the recycling and deinking of paper
GB2277330B (en) * 1993-04-21 1997-11-05 Dotspec Ltd Improvements in or relating to deinking of paper
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GB2313608A (en) * 1993-04-21 1997-12-03 Dotspec Ltd Improvements in or relating to deinking of paper
GB2313608B (en) * 1993-04-21 1998-01-21 Dotspec Ltd Improvements in or relating to deinking of paper
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