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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182970 | Image forming method An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. The method includes electrically charging a photoreceptor, imagewise exposing the photoreceptor so that a latent image is formed on the photoreceptor, supplying a lubricant on a surface of the photoreceptor, ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173344 | Electrophotographic photosensitive member and electrophotographic apparatus The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member in which a photoconductive layer is an amorphous layer that contains a silicon atom as a main component, and a surface layer contains an aluminum atom, a zinc atom and an oxygen atom so as t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173343 | Electrophotographic photoconductor, image forming apparatus using the same, and process cartridge The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoconductor which includes at least a photosensitive layer and a surface protective layer over a support, wherein the surface protective layer contains a filler, a charge transporting material and a specific c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8158316 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an electrically conductive substrate, an organic photosensitive layer and a surface layer laminated in this order. The surface layer includes at least gallium (Ga) and oxygen (O) as constituent elements thereof, and has ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8148039 | Crosslinked siloxane outmost layer having aromatic silicon-containing compounds for photoreceptors An aromatic silicon-containing compound has the formula: Ar—[X-L-SiRn(OR′)3-n]m where Ar represents an aromatic group, X represents a divalent or trivalent group; L represents a divalent linking group; R repr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148038 | Image bearing member, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and method of forming image bearing member An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a charge generating layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, a charge transport layer located overlying the charge generating layer, the charge transport layer comprising a charge tran... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142969 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support; a photosensitive layer; and a surface protective layer as an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, wherein the electrophotographic photoreceptor satisfies following formulas (a) ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137878 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, method for manufacturing the same, and image-forming apparatus using same The invention relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor in which protrusions from the surface of the photoreceptor are partly or completely covered by a resin. The effect of such resin covering is to reduce toner deposition, thereby reducing or eliminating spo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133645 | Method of manufacturing electrophotographic photoreceptor, electrophotographic photoreceptor, image-forming apparatus, and process cartridge An aspect of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electrophotographic photoreceptor. The method includes forming at least one layer selected from the group consisting of an undercoat layer, a photosensitive layer, and a protective layer, by je... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8119317 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the photoreceptor An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a crosslinked resin surface layer, located overlying the photo sensitive layer, wherein the crosslinked res... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110328 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive support and a photosensitive layer provided on or above the conductive support, the photosensitive layer having an outermost layer comprising a cured product of a composition comprising a curable resin, a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8088543 | Electrophotographic photosensitive member and electrophotographic apparatus An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a conductive substrate, a photoconductive layer formed on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer formed on the photoconductive layer. The photoconductive layer is formed of an amorphous material having chiefly ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088542 | Overcoat containing titanocene photoconductors A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, a charge transport layer, and an overcoat layer that contains a titanocene. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084172 | Organic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and color image forming apparatus An organic photoreceptor comprising a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate and a protective layer on the photosensitive layer, wherein the protective layer is a surface layer prepared via reaction curing of a compound having a radical polymerizable, curabl... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080351 | Triarylmethanes and processes for making the same Triarylmethane compounds used as antioxidants in overcoat layers to alleviate printing defects and an improved chemical process for the synthesis of these triarylmethane compounds using an acetal derivative of an aldehyde which significantly reduces reaction time an... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8043777 | Electrophotographic photoconductor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoconductor including, an uppermost crosslinked surface layer including a cured product of a crosslinked surface layer composition containing a tri- or more functional radical-polymerizable monomer having no c... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043775 | Electrophotographic photosensitive body An electrophotographic photosensitive body having a photosensitive layer on a conductive base, in which at least the outermost layer thereof contains particles having a double structure composed of a core member and a shell member having a larger rubber hardness tha... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043776 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive support and a photosensitive layer provided on or above the conductive support, the photosensitive layer having an outermost layer comprising a cured product of a composition comprising a curable resin, a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8029958 | Overcoat layer in photoreceptive device The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to an improved low wear overcoat for an imaging member having a substrate, a charge transport layer, and an overcoat layer positioned on the charge transport layer, and a process for preparing the same, where the over... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026028 | Low friction electrostatographic imaging member Present embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having low contact friction surfaces to ease sliding mechanical interaction and suppressing abrasion/wear failure and methods of preparing thereof. The improved imaging member has layers c... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021811 | Photoreceptor and method of making same Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a protective overcoat layer including a polyol binder; a hole transport material; a curing agent; and a surface-treated tin oxide particle filler. Also disclosed is a process for forming a photoreceptor that i... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021812 | Low friction electrostatographic imaging member Present embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having low contact friction surfaces to ease sliding mechanical interaction and suppressing abrasion/wear failure and methods of preparing thereof. The improved imaging member has layers c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7977021 | Electrophotographic toner, and image forming method and image forming apparatus employing the same An objective is to provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a protective layer in which no unevenness is generated in a coated layer even though a coating solution containing a large addition amount of metal oxide is coated, mechanical strength of a prote... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964329 | Imaging member An imaging member with a unique overcoat composition adapted for forming protective, scratch-resistant overcoats is disclosed. The overcoat composition comprises a binder component that includes particular proportions of a acrylated polyol and propylene glycol. The ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7960082 | Photoreceptor protective overcoat layer including silicone polyether and method of making same Disclosed is an electrophotographic imaging member including a substrate; a charge generating layer; a charge transport layer with a hole transport material; and a protective overcoat layer having a silicone polyether additive with at least one carbinol function gro... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955770 | Photoconductor, photoconductor cartridge and image-forming apparatus The surface of a photoconductor is coated with a surface protection layer comprising a cured material of a fluorine-containing photo-curing composition containing fluorinated alkyl group-containing (meth)acrylate and a photopolymerization initiator, and the surface ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7943277 | Sol gel overcoats incorporating zinc antimonate nanoparticles The present invention is directed to an electrophotographic element that comprises: an electrically conducting layer, a charge generating layer overlying the electrically conducting layer, and a charge transport layer overlying the electrically conducting layer. The... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943278 | Low friction electrostatographic imaging member Present embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having low contact friction surfaces to ease sliding mechanical interaction and suppressing abrasion/wear failure and methods of preparing thereof. The improved imaging member has layers c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7932006 | Photoconductors A coating composition that contains a mixture of an alkyl alcohol, a glycol monoether, a charge transport component, a crosslinking component, and at least one hydroxyl containing polymer, and a photoconductor thereof with a supporting substrate, a photogenerating l... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7906261 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the same An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer, an intermediate layer having a thickness of 2 nm to 70 nm, and a surface layer, which are disposed in this order on the conductive substrate. The refractive index n1 of... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7897313 | Electrostatic latent image bearing member, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the electrostatic latent image bearing member An electrostatic latent image bearing member is provided including a substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the substrate, wherein the outermost layer of the electrostatic latent image bearing member includes a cross-linked resin formed from a cross-... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897314 | Poss melamine overcoated photoconductors A photoconductor containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, a charge transport layer or layers, and an overcoating layer containing a crosslinked mixture of a POSS component, a melamine polymer, and a charge transport like a hole transport... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887981 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, method of producing the same, process cartridge, and image-forming apparatus The electrophotographic photoreceptor of the present invention includes a cylindrical support, a photosensitive layer and an outermost surface layer that are layered onto the cylindrical support in this sequence from the cylindrical support side. The outermost surfa... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7879519 | Image bearing member and image forming apparatus using the same This invention relates to image bearing member and an image forming apparatus that employs the image bearing member. The image bearing member contains an electroconductive substrate; a charge generation layer; a charge transport layer; a cross-linking surface protec... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7875411 | Photoreceptor containing substituted biphenyl diamine and method of forming same A photoreceptor with a substrate, a charge generating layer, a charge transport layer including N,N,N′N′-tetra(4-methylphenyl)-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine, having a purity of from about 95 percent to about 100 percent, and a protective overcoating layer, op... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7858278 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the electrophotographic photoreceptor An electrophotographic photoreceptor is provided, including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a resin including a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855039 | Photoconductors containing ketal overcoats A photoconductor that includes, for example, a supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer comprised of at least one charge transport component, and an overcoat, and where the overcoat contains at least one of ketal. In emb... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7846629 | Imaging member An imaging member has a crosslinked overcoat layer. The overcoat layer is formed from an overcoat solution comprising a trisilanol polyhedral oligomeric polysilsesquioxane; two crosslinking agents; a hole transport molecule; an acid catalyst; and an alcohol solvent.... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7842444 | Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and coating composition The invention provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive substrate having a photosensitive layer and a protective layer thereon, the protective layer comprising a crosslinked film having a phenolic structure, in which the relationship betw... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7838190 | Electrophotographic photosensitive member with surface layer of fluororesin particles and polyolefin with perfluoroalkyl group An electrophotographic photosensitive member having excellent electrophotographic properties, a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic ph... | 11/23/2010 |
