ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE

• Main Authors: SHIMOYAMA KEISUKE, KURIMOTO EIJI, KAWAMURA SHINICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.10.2007
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ARTCOLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

An electrophotographic photoconductor contains a photosensitive layer and a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive substrate, and the photosensitive layer is a single layer containing a charge generating material, an electron transporting material expressed by the General Formula (1) and a hole transporting material expressed by the General Formula (2): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent any one of a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group and substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, and R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 and R10 independently represent any one of a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, cyano group, nitro group, amino group, hydroxyl group, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group and substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group; and wherein R11, R12, R13, R14, R17, R18, R19 and R20 each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkoxy group, alkyl group which may be substituted or aryl group which may be substituted, R15 and R16 each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl group, and alkoxy group.