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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photoreceptor having superior wear resistance, to provide a photoreceptor which contributes to reduce photoreceptor replacement frequency in an electrophotographic apparatus and has superior releasability, to provide a long-lifetime image forming engine which causes little damage to members which come into contact with a photoreceptor around the photoreceptor, and to provide a photoreceptor, whose manufacturing cost is low and whose initial cost is low so that it can be widely supplied to a market, and to provide a photoreceptor which ensures a low printing cost per sheet. SOLUTION: In an electrophotographic photoreceptor obtained by stacking a photoreceptor top surface layer containing a cross-linkable binder resin on the photoreceptor, in which a photosensitive layer comprising a charge generating layer containing a charge generating component and a charge transport layer containing a charge transport component is formed on a conductive support directly or across an undercoat layer, the photoreceptor top surface layer has neither hydroxyl group nor residual uncured moiety. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charge transport material having excellent electrostatic properties such as a high accommodation voltage and a low discharge voltage, an organophotoreceptor with the charge transport material, an electrophotographic image forming apparatus with the organophotoreceptor, and an electrophotographic image forming method using the organophotoreceptor. SOLUTION: The organophotoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a photoconductive element on the electrically conductive substrate, wherein the photoconductive element comprises a charge transport material having the formula 1 and a charge generating compound. In the formula 1, R 1 and R 2 are, independently, H, an alkyl group, an alkaryl group or an aryl group; X is a branched or linear linking group having formula -(CH 2 ) m -; V comprises a vinyl ether group; and Z comprises an arylamine group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new charge transport compound, to provide an organic photoreceptor containing the same, and to provide an electrophotographic image formation method using the same. SOLUTION: The charge transport compound has a plurality of hydrazone-bridged heterocyclic groups connected by a central bridging group. An example of the charge transport compound is represented by the chemical formula (wherein R is selected from the group consisting of julolidine groups, carbazole ring groups, and (N,N-disubstituted) arylamine groups; and Q comprises an aromatic hydazone linking group). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an organic photoconductive material capable of realizing an electrophotographic photoreceptor of high reliability which has high electrification potential, high sensitivity, sufficient photo-responsiveness, excellent durability, and no decrease in these characteristics even when the photoreceptor is used in a low temperature environment or in a high-speed process or subjected to exposure to light, and to provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image forming apparatus using the above material. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus is constituted by loading the electrophotographic photoreceptor on it, and the electrophotographic photoreceptor is manufactured by containing an organic photoconductive material expressed by general formula (1) as a charge transport substance into the photosensitive layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor which has high durability even in long-term repetitive use, suppresses image degradation due to lowering of image density or image blurring, and stably yields an image of high image quality. SOLUTION: In the electrophotographic photoreceptor in which a photosensitive layer is disposed on a conductive support, the photosensitive layer contains a compound having at least one substituted or unsubstituted alkylamino group and a charge transport material, wherein relation of the expression: Eox1-Eox2≥-0.2 is established between the oxidation potential (Eox1) of the compound having the alkylamino group and the oxidation potential (Eox2) of the charge transport material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charge transfer compound having a hydrazone group, an organic photoreceptor containing the charge transfer compound, an apparatus for forming an electrophotographic picture containing the organic photoreceptor and a method for forming the electrophotographic picture using the apparatus. SOLUTION: The organic photoreceptor contains a photoconductive layer comprising a novel charge transfer compound having the chemical formula (1) and a charge generation compound and one or more photoconductive layers are located on the conductive substrate. In the chemical formula (1), R 1 is carbazole group, julolidine group or p-(N,N-disubstituted) allyl amine, R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 are independently alkyl group or allyl group, R 7 and R 8 are independently H, alkyl group or allyl group, X is O, S or NR' group, R' is H, alkyl or allyl group and Y is allyl group. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor for wet development and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same. SOLUTION: The photoreceptor comprises a conductive support and an organic photosensitive layer formed on the conductive support, wherein the surface layer of the organic photosensitive layer comprises: at least a binder resin comprising a high molecular compound; and a charge transport material comprising a low molecular compound, and the oxygen gas permeability coefficient of the surface layer is adjusted to ≤5×10 -13 cm 3 (STP) cm/s cm 2 cmHg. The photoreceptor is excellent in resistance to a liquid developer used in a wet developing process and assures good image properties. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PURPOSE:To improve the electrophotographic characteristics by successively laminating a charge transferring layer having positive hole transferring action and a charge generating layer contg. a photoconductive azo pigment and a specified charge transferring material having positive hole transferring action on an electrically conductive support. CONSTITUTION:An azo pigment having a phenolic OH group is used as a photoconductive azo pigment used in a charge generating layer, and an azo pigment represented by formula I is especially effective. In the formula, l=2 or 3, A is a bivalent org. group forming a conjugated double bond system between carbon atoms having a bonded azo group, and B is a coupler having a phenolic OH group. A hydrazone type charge transferring material is used as a specified positive hoe transferring material used in the charge generating layer, and a material represented by formula II is especially preferable. In the formula, D is a phenyl group which may have a substituent other than a substituted amino group or a carbazolyl group which may have a substituent but is not N-substituted.
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PURPOSE:To obtain a photosensitive body having high sensitivity and maintaining superior stability and low residual potential even after repeated use by incorporating a specified hydrazone compound into a photosensitive layer together with photoconductive phthalocyanine powder. CONSTITUTION:The photosensitive body having high sensitivity and superior durability, undergoing little change in the surface potential, and accumulating hardly residual potential is obtd. by forming a single photosensitive layer contg. a hydrazone compound represented by the formula [where each of X and Y is H, lower alkyl, OCH3 or OC2H5, Z is lower alkyl, benzyl, lower alkoxy, phenoxy or benzyloxy, Z' is H, alkyl or alkoxy, R is lower alkyl, (substituted) aryl or benzyl, and the substituent is relatively lower alkoxy or the like] and photoconductive phthalocyanine particles dispersed in a binder. A laminate type photosensitive layer consisting of a charge generating layer contg. photoconductive phthalocyanine particles and a charge transferring layer contg. said hydrazone compound may be formed in place of said single photosensitive layer.