Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Fumitaka Mochizuki

Akihiko Itami

Kenichi Yasuda

Masahiko Kurachi

Kazuhisa Shida

Kazukuni Nishimura

Kazuhiko Sato

Satoshi Uchino

Shinichi Hamaguchi

Isao Endo

Takeo Oshiba

Tomoko Sakimura

Eiichi Sakai

Hideya Miwa

Naoko Uemura

Satoshi Haneda

Takeshi Ishida

Akira Kinoshita

Masao Asano

Hisayoshi Nagase

Toyoko Shibata

Hiroyuki Tokimatsu

Kazumasa Watanabe

Shuta Hamada

Tomomi Oshiba

Masahiro Onodera

Shinichi Yabuki

Yoshihide Fujimaki

Toshihide Miura

Shingo Fujimoto

Ichiro Kudo

Toru Makino

Ito Koga

Hajime Tadokoro

Hideo Yoshizawa

Hidekazu Kawasaki

Go Yamaguchi

Yohko Kitahara

Masanori Yumita

Yuichiro Maehara

Yohei Ohno

Junichi Otani

Kiyoshi Tamaki

Kenji Sakka

Chohiko Fukuo

Hiroaki Minemura

Sachie Matsudaira

Masaru Sano

Mieko Toyama

Kimiyuki Itou

Takeo Ohshiba

Hideaki Morita

A manufacturing method of an organic-inorganic composite material includes a flocculation and fusion step to flocculate and fuse composite particles in a liquid medium, the composite particles being formed by inorganic fine particles being coated by coating layers. In one embodiment, an average particle diameter of the inorganic fine particles is 1 nm or larger and 30 nm or smaller.

Manufacturing method of organic-inorganic composite material and optical material

A photoelectric conversion element having a pair of electrodes, and a semiconductor layer comprising a semiconductor carrying a dye and an electrolyte layer is disclosed. The dye is represented by Formulas 1 or 2; in Formula 1, Arand Arare each an arylene or heterocyclic group, or a composite group of an arylene group and a heterocyclic group, each of which may have a substituent, Aris an aryl or heterocyclic group or a composite group of an arylene group and a heterocyclic group, each of which may have a substituent, Ar, Arand Armay form a ring by bonding with each other, Xand Xare each a straight chain residue having an acidic group which may have a mono-valent substituent, and one to eight saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms are bonded to Ar, Arand Ar; in the formula, Ar, Ar, Ar, Arand Arare each an arylene or heterocyclic group, or a composite group of an arylene group and a heterocyclic group, each of which may have a substituent, Ar, Ar, Ar, Arand Armay form a ring by bonding with together, at least two of X, X, Xand Xare each an alkyl or alkenyl group having an acidic group which may have a mono-valent substituent and the remainders are each a hydrogen atom, and one to eight saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms are bonded to Ar, Ar, Ar, Arand Ar.

Photoelectric conversion element and solar cell

An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed, comprising on or over an electrically conductive support a photosensitive layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transfer material, wherein the charge generation material is comprised of two or more compounds represented by the following formula wherein X and Y are each an alkyl group or a halogen atom, n is an integer of 1 to 6 and m is an integer of 0 to 6, and wherein the compounds differ in at least one of m and n of the formula.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image forming apparatus

A photoelectric conversion element comprising a pair of electrodes containing therebetween a compound represented by Formula (1) or Formula (2): 

A photoelectric conversion element is disclosed, comprising a compound represented by the following formula between a pair of opposed electrodes: wherein Ar, ARand Arare each a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, x is an organic residue having an acidic group and n is an integer of 2 to 8. A solar cell comprising the photoelectric conversion element is also disclosed.

A photoelectric conversion element comprising an electrically conductive support having thereon an oxide semiconductor electrode comprising an oxide semiconductor which is adsorbed with a dye, and a counter electrode facing the oxide semiconductor electrode through a charge transfer layer, wherein the dye is represented by Formula (1): 

Photoelectric conversion element, method of manufacturing the same and solar cell

An intermediate transfer member for use in an image forming apparatus in which a toner image is formed on a photoreceptor, firstly transferred from the photoreceptor to the intermediate transfer member, and further secondly transferred from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium, the intermediate transfer member, includes an intermediate transfer belt containing a volatile substance in a range of from 10 to 10,000 ppm as an average concentration of an entire intermediate transfer belt thereof.

Intermediate transfer member, method for producing the same and image forming method

Provided is an intermediate transfer member, a method of producing the same, and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus thereof having excellent effects such that neither crack nor rupture is generated upon repetitive use, no transferring ratio drops during secondary transfer, and neither white patch of an text image nor white patch of a solid image is generated. Also disclosed is an intermediate transfer member used for an image forming apparatus, wherein a surface of the intermediate transfer member has a hardness of 1.5-3.0 GPa, measured by a nano indentation method, and a hardness of 0.15-0.45 GPa, specified by a universal hardness method.

Intermediate transfer member, method of producing the same, image forming method and image forming apparatus

An intermediate transfer material, for use in an image forming apparatus in which a toner image on an electrostatic latent image carrier is transferred onto the intermediate transfer material and the toner image on the intermediate transfer material is further transferred onto a final transfer material, wherein the intermediate transfer material comprises a substrate layer having thereon a surface layer, and the surface layer comprising a cured (meth)acrylic resin. There are also disclosed an image forming method by use of the intermediate transfer material and an image forming apparatus by use of the image forming method.

Intermediate transfer material, image forming method and image forming apparatus

Provided are a photoreceptor, an image forming method, an image forming apparatus and a processing cartridge exhibiting an excellent effect on high quality toner images with no image defect caused by occurrence of fog, lowered image density and sharpness, or generation of black spots. Disclosed also is an electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electrically conductive support containing aluminum, an uppermost layer, and at least an intermediate layer containing inorganic particles and binder, the intermediate layer being provided between the support and the uppermost layer, wherein the support has on a surface of the support crystallizing material particles having a diameter of 0.3-10 &#x3bc;m in an amount of being 0.5-20 per (20 &#x3bc;m), the inorganic particles have a number average primary particle diameter of 5-300 nm, the intermediate layer is an insulating layer and covered by the uppermost layer.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, electrophotographic image forming method, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and processing cartridge

A method of forming a toner image is disclosed. The photoreceptor is installed so that the center axis of the cylinder is to be almost horizontal, front edge of the cleaning blade is pressed against surface of the photoreceptor at the top, ratio of width of the photosensitive layer of the photoreceptor to length of the cylindrical electroconductive substrate is 80/100 to 99/100, and a number ratio of toner particles having a shape coefficient of 1.2 to 1.6 is at least 65 percent in the toner particles.

Image forming method

A toner cleaning device for removing toner which remains on an organic photoreceptor is provided. The toner cleaning device can include a cleaning blade, a support member of the cleaning blade and a damping material. An image forming method is also provided. The method includes removing toner which remains on an organic photoreceptor by using the toner cleaning device.

Toner cleaning device, image forming method using the device, and image forming apparatus using the device

A cleaning device for cleaning a toner from a surface of a cylindrical latent image carrier having; a cleaning blade mechanism which includes a cleaning blade arranged so that a tip edge portion on a first surface of the cleaning blade contacts with the surface of the cylindrical latent image carrier, and a supporting member positioned on a second surface at a base end portion of the cleaning blade to urge the cleaning blade to contact with the surface of the cylindrical latent image carrier; and a laminar vibration-damping member whose base end portion is held by the supporting member on the second surface of the cleaning blade, wherein, on a tip end portion of the vibration-damping member, a plurality of slits are formed so that a plurality of tab portions are formed to be arranged in the axial direction of the cylindrical latent image carrier.

Cleaning device with improved damping member and image forming apparatus using the same

A photoreceptor for forming an electrostatic latent image is disclosed. The photoreceptor comprises a photosensitive layer and a resin layer wherein a resin of the resin layer comprises an organic polymer component, siloxane component and charge transportable component.

Photoreceptor for forming electrostatic latent image

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Fumitaka Mochizuki