摘要:
A method for determining a termination time of the step of dispersing a coating composition for a photosensitive layer, containing a binder resin, a powdery charge generating material and a solvent, is disclosed, which comprises (i) providing coating (I) on a substrate by coating the coating composition, following by drying, (ii) providing coating (II) on a substrate by dispersing the coating composition using a dispersion medium to fine the powdery charge generating material, followed by drying, (iii) measuring absorbances of coating (I) at two wavelengths within a short wavelength region and a long wavelength region, respectively, of the spectral absorption wavelength of the charge generating material, (iv) measuring absorbances of coating (II) at the two wavelengthes within the short wavelength region and the long wavelength region, respectively, and (v) calculating spectral absorbance ratios of coatings (I) and (II), respectively, from the following equation: ##EQU1## wherein the dispersing of the coating composition is terminated when the ratio of the spectral absorbance ratio of coating (II) to that of coating (I) exceed a predetermined value.
摘要:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive substrate having thereon a photosensitive layer as the uppermost layer, in which the photosensitive layer contains two charge transporting materials different in ionization potential, a charge transporting material having a higher ionization potential is present in the amount equimolar to or in an amount less than the equimolar amount to the other charge transporting material having a lower ionization potential. A laminate type electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive substrate having thereon a charge generating layer and a charge transporting layer, in which the charge generating layer comprises a binder resin and a charge generating material dispersed therein, the charge transporting layer comprises a binder resin and at least two charge transporting materials including a first charge transporting material and a second charge transporting material, the amount of the first charge transporting material is at least 60 wt % based on the total amount of the charge transporting materials, the difference between the highest ionization potential and the lowest ionization potential the charge transporting materials is not more than 0.4 eV, provided that (1) the ionization potentials of all the charge transporting materials are lower than the ionization potential of the charge generating material, or (2) the ionization potential of the first charge transporting material is lower than the ionization potential of the charge generating material, and the ionization potential of the second charge transporting material is higher than the ionization potential of the charge generating material by at least 0.2 eV.
摘要:
A novel electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed, comprising an undercoating layer provided on an electrically conductive substrate having thereon a light-sensitive layer, wherein the undercoating layer is obtained by coating a solution of a composition comprising zirconium and silicon or a solution of a mixture of a zirconium acetyl acetonate compound and a silane coupling agent, the silicon content in the composition comprising zirconium and silicon is in the range of 5 to 35 mol % based on the total amount of zirconium and silicon, and the hardened undercoating layer obtained from the zirconium acetyl acetonate compound and silane coupling agent is a layer having a hardening degree of 1.2 or less.
摘要:
A novel method for preparing an electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed, which comprises laminating a charge generating layer and a charge transporting layer in this order on an electrically conductive substrate via an undercoating layer, wherein the coating solution for said undercoating layer contains an alkoxide coupling agent represented by formula (I), an aliphatic alcohol solvent containing at least the same number of carbon atoms as in the alkoxy group in said alkoxide coupling agent, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of aromatic solvents, ethylene glycols and propylene glycols:X.sub.m --m--(OR.sub.1).sub.N (I)wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; M represents Si, Ti, Zr or Al; X represents an organic group; m represents an integer of 0, 1 or 2; and n represents an integer of 1 to 4, provided that when M is Si, Ti or Zr, n is an integer of 1 to 4 and m is an integer of (4-n) and when M is Al, n is an integer of 1 to 3 and m is an integer of (3-n).
摘要:
An apparatus for forming an image is provided that can sufficiently prevent occurrence of nibbled images without any damage of the photoreceptor and the intermediate transfer body, whereby good image quality can be stably obtained for a long period of time. In an apparatus for forming an image having an intermediate transfer body, the surface of the photoreceptor has a dynamic hardness of 8×109 N/m2 or more, and the surface of the intermediate transfer body has a dynamic hardness larger than that of the surface of the photoreceptor, and a difference between the dynamic hardness of the surface of the photoreceptor and the dynamic hardness of the surface of the intermediate transfer material is 2×1010 N/m2 or less.
摘要翻译:提供了一种用于形成图像的装置,其可以充分防止发生啃咬的图像,而不会损害感光体和中间转印体,从而可以长时间稳定地获得良好的图像质量。 在用于形成具有中间转印体的图像的装置中,感光体的表面具有8×10 9 N / m 2以上的动态硬度,并且中间转印体的表面具有大于 感光体的表面的感光体表面的动态硬度与中间转印材料表面的动态硬度之间的差异为2×10 10 N / m 2以下。
摘要:
A charging roller including: a support; an elastic layer provided on the outer peripheral surface of the support, and having a ground-finished outer peripheral surface; and a surface layer formed to cover the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer and that has a thickness of about 2 μm to about 10 μm from the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, and a proportion of water absorbed in the total of the elastic layer and the surface layer, after storage for 48 hours in an environment having a temperature of 10° C. and a humidity of 15% RH, and after storage for 48 hours in an environment having a temperature of 28° C. and a humidity of 85% RH, being about 2% to about 8% by weight, being about 2% to about 8% by weight.
摘要:
An image carrier includes a conductive base material and a photosensitive layer formed on the base material. The photosensitive layer has an outermost surface layer that contains particles having a number-averaged particle sphericality represented by Formula (1) of approximately 0.7 or less: sphericality=4πA/L2 (1), where π represents the circular constant, A represents the projection area of the particle, and L represents the peripheral length of the projected particle image.
摘要翻译:图像载体包括导电基材和形成在基材上的感光层。 感光层具有包含由式(1)表示的数均粒度为约0.7以下的粒子的最外表面层:球面度= 4piA / L 2(1),其中,pi表示 圆周常数A表示粒子的投影面积,L表示投影粒子图像的周长。
摘要:
The invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising at least: an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate; a charging device; an exposure device; a developing device; and a transfer device, wherein the exposure device is of a multi beam exposure system which has a surface emitting laser array having two or more light-emitting elements as an exposure light source and which scan the electrophotographic photoreceptor with plural light beams thereby forming electrostatic latent image, and wherein the outermost layer in the electrophotographic photoreceptor, positioned most distant from the conductive substrate, contains a silicon-containing resin containing at least a charge transporting compound or a characteristic group derived from a charge transporting compound, and having a structure in which bonds formed by crosslinking of an O atom with neighboring Si atoms are formed three dimensionally.
摘要:
A charging roller including: a support; an elastic layer provided on the outer peripheral surface of the support, and having a ground-finished outer peripheral surface; and a surface layer formed to cover the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer and that has a thickness of about 2 μm to about 10 μm from the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, and a proportion of water absorbed in the total of the elastic layer and the surface layer, after storage for 48 hours in an environment having a temperature of 10° C. and a humidity of 15% RH, and after storage for 48 hours in an environment having a temperature of 28° C. and a humidity of 85% RH, being about 2% to about 8% by weight, being about 2% to about 8% by weight.
摘要:
An image carrier includes a conductive base material and a photosensitive layer formed on the base material. The photosensitive layer has an outermost surface layer that contains particles having a number-averaged particle sphericality represented by Formula (1) of approximately 0.7 or less: sphericality=4πA/L2 (1), where π represents the circular constant, A represents the projection area of the particle, and L represents the peripheral length of the projected particle image.
摘要翻译:图像载体包括导电基材和形成在基材上的感光层。 感光层具有包含由式(1)表示的数均粒度为约0.7以下的粒子的最外表面层:球面度= 4& pgr; A / L2(1),其中&pgr; 表示圆形常数,A表示颗粒的投影面积,L表示投影的颗粒图像的周长。