Boron containing hole blocking layer photoconductor
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsJin Wu, Dennis J Prosser, Kathleen M Carmichael, Sherri A Toates, Kent J Evans, Edward F Grabowski
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Abstract
A photoconductor that includes a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking layer, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer, and where the hole blocking layer includes a boron containing compound.
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A photoconductor consisting essentially of a substrate, a ground plane layer, an undercoat layer thereover wherein the undercoat layer comprises an aminosilane and a boron compound additive selected from the group consisting of triethanolamine borate, triethyl borate, 2,4,6-trimethoxyboroxin, 2-isopropoxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane, 2,6-dimethyl-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)phenol, and bis(hexylene glycolato)diboron;
- a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer.
A photoconductor comprising a substrate, a gold ground plane layer, an undercoat layer thereover comprised of a mixture of an aminosilane and a boron containing component selected from the group consisting of triethanolamine borate, triethyl borate, 2,4,6-trimethoxyboroxin, 2-isopropoxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane, 2,6-dimethyl-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)phenol, and bis(hexylene glycolato)diboron, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer.
A photoconductor consisting of and in sequence a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking layer comprised of an aminosilane and a boron compound mixture, wherein said boron compound is selected from the group consisting of triethanolamine borate, triethyl borate, 2,4,6-trimethoxyboroxin, 2-isopropoxy-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolane, tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)phenol, and bis(hexylene glycolato)diboron;
- a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer.
A photoconductor consisting essentially of and in sequence of a ground plane layer;
- a hole blocking layer;
- a photogenerating layer comprised of at least one photogenerating pigment and a charge transport layer;
- and wherein said hole blocking layer is comprised of a mixture of an aminosilane and a boron containing compound;
- and wherein said boron containing compound is represented by at least one of
- and wherein n represents the number of repeating entities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.