摘要:
An electrophotographic imaging member including a supporting substrate, a charge blocking layer, an imaging layer including at least one photoconductive layer, the blocking layer including an uncrosslinked copolymer derived from vinyl hydroxy ester or vinyl hydroxy amide repeat units chemically modified at a nucleophilic hydroxyl group by a monofunctional electrophile, the copolymer having a number average molecular weight of at least about 10,000.
摘要:
There is disclosed an electrostatographic imaging member comprising: (a) a supporting substrate including an electrically conductive surface; (b) at least one electrostatographic imaging layer; and (c) an electrically conductive grounding layer adjacent to the at least one imaging layer and in electrical contact with the electrically conductive surface, wherein the grounding layer is comprised of alkyl acrylamidoglycolate alkyl ether polymer.
摘要:
A thick organic ambipolar layer on a photoresponsive device is simultaneously capable of charge generation and charge transport. In particular, the organic photoresponsive layer contains an electron transport material such as a fluorenylidene malonitrile derivative and a hole transport material such as a dihydroxy tetraphenyl benzadine containing polymer. These may be complexed to provide photoresponsivity, and/or a photoresponsive pigment or dye may also be included.
摘要:
An apparatus for coating a photoreceptor substrate, such as a photoreceptor belt or a photoreceptor drum, consists of at least one photoreceptor coating fluid reservoir or diptank. The diptank defines an inlet at one end and a conduit with an orifice at the other end. The conduit includes at least one porous element such as a grid, screen or mesh arranged for suspending a plurality of layers of non-contaminating rounded objects, such as stainless steel or glass beads, in the bottom of the conduit. Photoreceptor coating solution supplied to the inlet is thereby forced to flow through the plurality of layers of beads prior to coating a photoreceptor substrate that is inserted through the orifice. As a result, the uniformity of the coating solution is improved as it coats the photoreceptor substrate, thereby reducing coating defects in the finished photoreceptor belt or drum.
摘要:
An imaging process including providing an electrophotographic imaging member including a substrate, a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer including a small molecule hole transporting diarylamine, a small molecule hole transporting tritolyl amine and a film forming binder, depositing a uniform electrostatic charge on the imaging member with a corona generating device to which power is being supplied, the corona generating device comprising at least one bare metal wire adjacent to and spaced from the imaging member, exposing the imaging member with activating radiation in image configuration to form an electrostatic latent image, developing the latent image with marking particles to form a toner image, transfering the toner image to a receiving member, repeating the depositing, exposing, developing, transfering steps, resting the imaging member for at least 15 minutes under the corona generating device while the power to the corona generating device is removed and while the corona generating device is emitting sufficent effluents to render the surface region of the electrophotographic imaging member underlying the corona generating device electrically conductive if the tritolyl amine were replaced with the small molecule hole transporting diarylamine, supplying power to the corona generating device, and repeating the depositing, exposing, developing, transfering steps at least once.
摘要:
A process for dip coating drums comprising providing a drum having an outer surface to be coated, an upper end and a lower end, providing at least one coating vessel having a bottom, an open top and a cylindrically shaped vertical interior wall having a diameter greater than the diameter of the drum, flowing liquid coating material from the bottom of the vessel to the top of the vessel, immersing the drum in the flowing liquid coating material while maintaining the axis of the drum in a vertical orientation, maintaining the outer surface of the drum in a concentric relationship with the vertical interior wall of the cylindrical coating vessel while the drum is immersed in the coating material, the outer surface of the drum being radially spaced from the vertical interior wall of the cylindrical coating vessel, maintaining laminar flow motion of the coating material as it passes between the outer surface of the drum and the vertical interior wall of the vessel, maintaining the radial spacing between the outer surface of the drum and the inner surface of the vessel between about 2 millimeters and about 9 millimeters, and withdrawing the drum from the coating vessel.
摘要:
There is disclosed a crucible assembly comprising: (a) an electrically conductive tube having a first end portion and a second end portion and defining an opening in the surface of the tube, wherein the tube defines an imaginary horizontal line which bisects the cross-sectional dimension of the tube and an imaginary vertical line which bisects the cross-sectional dimension of the tube; and (b) at least one power connection area, operatively associated with the first end portion of the tube, wherein for the crucible assembly having only one power connection area associated with the first end portion, the one power connection area is positioned above the imaginary horizontal line on the same side of the horizontal line as the opening in the tube surface, wherein for the crucible assembly having at least two power connection areas associated with the first end portion, the at least two power connection areas permit coupling of at least two power cables.
摘要:
An electrostatographic imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate; a hydrogenated amorphous silicon photogenerator layer; and in contact therewith a plasma deposited charge transporting layer with components therein selected from the group consisting of silicon nitrides, boron nitrides, aluminum nitrides, phosphorous nitrides, gallium nitrides, boron phosphides, aluminum phosphides, boron oxides, aluminum oxides, gallium oxides, and organosilanes; and wherein the transporting layer contains therein hydrogen, halides, or mixtures thereof.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photoresponsive device for use in electrophotography comprised of a supporting substrate, and an amorphous silicon composition containing from about 25 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of boron compensated with from about 25 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of phosphorous, nitrogen, or arsenic. Also disclosed is a photoresponsive electrophotographic device comprised of a supporting substrate, an uncompensated amorphous silicon layer and an amorphous silicon composition containing from about 100 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of boron compensated with from about 25 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of phosphorous, wherein the compensation increases from zero percent compensation to one percent compensation, for a distance of from about 0.1 microns to about 5 microns, which distance extends from the uncompensated amorphous silicon layer to the compensated amorphous silicon layer or wherein the photoresponsive device is comprised of a supporting substrate, an uncompensated amorphous silicon composition, a compensated amorphous silicon composition, containing from about 100 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of boron compensated with from about 25 parts per million by weight to about 1 weight percent of phosphorous, wherein the compensation increases from zero percent compensation to one percent compensation, for a distance of from about 0.1 microns to about 5 microns, which distance extends from the uncompensated amorphous silicon layer to the compensated amorphous silicon layer and a top overcoating layer of silicon nitride, silicon carbide, or amorphous carbon.
摘要:
An apparatus for coating a photoreceptor substrate, such as a photoreceptor belt or a photoreceptor drum, consists of at least one photoreceptor coating fluid reservoir or diptank. The diptank defines an inlet at one end and a conduit with an orifice at the other end. The conduit includes at least one porous element such as a grid, screen or mesh arranged for suspending a plurality of layers of non-contaminating rounded objects, such as stainless steel or glass beads, in the bottom of the conduit. Photoreceptor coating solution supplied to the inlet is thereby forced to flow through the plurality of layers of beads prior to coating a photoreceptor substrate that is inserted through the orifice. As a result, the uniformity of the coating solution is improved as it coats the photoreceptor substrate, thereby reducing coating defects in the finished photoreceptor belt or drum.