Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsTomofumi Shimizu, Keiji Maruo
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Abstract
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. The photosensitive layer has a scratch resistance depth of no greater than 0.50 μm.
Claims10
An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer as a single-layer, wherein
- the photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin,
- the photosensitive layer has a scratch resistance depth of no greater than 0.50 μm,
- the scratch resistance depth of the photosensitive layer representing a hardness of the photosensitive layer containing the binder resin at a ratio of a mass of the binder resin relative to a total mass of the photosensitive layer of at least 0.47 and no greater than 0.60, the binder resin including a polyarylate resin represented by a general formula (1) shown below,
- where, in the general formula (1),
- kr and kt each represent, independently of one another, 2 or 3,
- r+s+t+u=100,
- r+t=s+u, and
- r, s, t, and u each represent, independently of one another, a number of at least 1, s/(s+u) is greater than 0.00 and no greater than 0.90, one of X and Y represents a divalent group represented by a chemical formula (1-1), and the other of X and Y represents a divalent group represented by a chemical formula (1-2):
An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer as a single-layer, wherein
- the photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin,
- the photosensitive layer has a scratch resistance depth of no greater than 0.50 μm, the scratch resistance depth of the photosensitive layer representing a hardness of the photosensitive layer containing the binder resin at a ratio of a mass of the binder resin relative to a total mass of the photosensitive layer of at least 0.47 and no greater than 0.60, the binder resin including a polyarylate resin represented by chemical formula (R-1), (R-2), (R-3), (R-4), (R-5), (R-6), (R-7), or (R-8) shown below:
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