Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinji Takagi, Hideaki Nagasaka, Kunihiko Sekido, Michiyo Sekiya
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photosensitive member obtained by providing, on a conductive support, a conductive layer containing conductive particles having a volume-average particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more, an intermediate layer, and a photosensitive layer in the stated order in which the conductive layer contains a polyolefin resin containing a specific repeating structural unit at a specific ratio, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.
Claims6
An electrophotographic photosensitive member, comprising:
- a conductive support;
- a conductive layer containing conductive particles having a volume-average particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more;
- an intermediate layer;
- and
- a photosensitive layer,
- the conductive layer, the intermediate layer, and the photosensitive layer being provided on the conductive support in the stated order,
- wherein the conductive layer contains a polyolefin resin having the following repeating structural units (A1), (A2), and (A3), and a mass ratio (%) of the units (A1), (A2), and (A3) in the polyolefin resin satisfies the following formula (1), and
- wherein the units (A1), (A2), and (A3) are the only repeating structural units in the polyolefin resin:
- 0.01≦(A2)/{(A1)+(A2)+(A3)}×100≦30 Formula (1)
- (A1):
- a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (11):
- where R11 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group;
- (A2):
- a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (22):
- where R25 and R26 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a phenyl group, and X21 represents a divalent group represented by -Y22 COOCOY23- where Y22 and Y23 each independently represent a single bond, an alkylene group, or an arylene group;
- and
- (A3):
- a repeating structural unit represented by any one of the following formulae (31), (32), (33), and (34):
- where R31 to R35 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R41 to R43 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and R51 to R53 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.