Abstract:
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support, a photosensitive layer on the conductive support, and a protective layer on the photosensitive layer. The protective layer includes a binder resin, metal oxide particles, and fluororesin particles. The metal oxide particles include, on a surface thereof, a first surface-treating agent including fluorine atoms, and a second surface-treating agent including a polymerizable reactive group and a hydrophobic group. At least some of the metal oxide particles are supported on a surface of the fluororesin particles. The fluororesin particles are fixed to the binder resin via the at least some of the metal oxide particles supported on the surface of the fluororesin particles.
Abstract:
A filter media of purifying air by collecting floating particles in the air can achieve high dust collecting efficiency, low pressure loss, and a long life cycle. In an air cleaner, a filter media included in an air cleaning filter and cleaning air is constituted with a resin fiber of a mean fiber diameter of 3.6 μm to 16.5 μm, and a ratio of weight per unit area to the mean fiber diameter of the filter media is from 10×106 g/m3 to 20×106 g/m3.
Abstract:
An organic photoreceptor including a photosensitive layer disposed on an electrically conductive substrate; and a protective layer disposed on the photosensitive layer, wherein the protective layer includes a cured product of a multifunctional acrylic oligomer including a urethane group and a multifunctional curable compound including a dendrimeric structure.
Abstract:
An electrolyte membrane including: a host polymer having a fluoropolymer molecular chain having a segment of the formula —CF2—CF(M)CH2—CF2—, wherein M is at least one selected from —CF3—, —CF2H—, —CFH2— and a combination thereof, the segment being defluorinated or dehydrofluorinated and chemically crosslinked by a low molecular weight basic compound having at least two amino groups; and a proton conductive polymer having a polymer chain being a co-polymerization product of a low molecular weight polymerizable proton conductor monomer including an acidic group having a dissociable proton and at least one polymerizable functional group, with a crosslinking agent; wherein the molecular chains of the host polymer and the proton conductive polymer form an interpenetrating polymer network.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to an electrostatic charger and an electrostatic precipitator securing a wide space for charging suspended fine particles contained in a processing airflow. The electrostatic charger includes a discharge electrode formed of a plurality of fibrous conductors and provided to generate and diffuse ions by a discharge, a ground electrode maintained at a ground potential and provided to attract the ions generated and diffused by the discharge electrode to charge suspended fine particles contained in a processing airflow by the ions, where the discharge electrode is disposed between the ground electrodes in the processing airflow, and all or at least a part of the plurality of fibrous conductors of the discharge electrode are disposed on a downstream side of the processing airflow further than an end portion of the ground electrode on the most upstream side of the processing airflow.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a charging apparatus and precipitator. The charging apparatus includes a plurality of counter electrodes formed in a plate shape and arranged in a direction intersecting with a ventilation direction to allow respective surfaces thereof to follow the ventilation direction, and a plurality of high voltage electrodes formed in a wire shape and installed between the plurality of counter electrodes. The plurality of counter electrodes includes a first counter electrode having a first electrode area, and a second counter electrode having a second electrode area less than the first electrode area. The first counter electrode and the second counter electrode are alternately arranged.
Abstract:
An organic photoconductor including an electrically conductive substrate, a photosensitive layer disposed on the electrically conductive substrate, and a protection layer disposed on the photosensitive layer, wherein the protection layer includes a polymer composition and a plurality of electrically conductive metal oxide particles, and wherein the polymer composition is a product of a curing reaction with a multifunctional spherical dendrimer, a first multifunctional acryl compound having a urethane bond, and a second multifunctional acryl compound having a silicon-containing group and a fluorine-containing group.