Xerox Corporation

Gene W O'Dell

Philip G Perry

William G Herbert

Phillip G Perry

Gary J Maier

Richard J Manzolati

James E McNamara

Alexandra I Vidal

Satchidanand Mishra

Robert C U Yu

Merlin E Scharfe

Mark S Thomas

John J Darcy

Robert S Foltz

Robert W Nolley

David J Maty

Alexander A Antonelli

Thomas Paul Debies

David P Rich

John M Magde, Jr

John T Dilko

Jodie L Morris

Cornelius Boerman

Ronny W Van Asten

Roberto W Vidal

The present disclosure provides photoreceptors and methods for fabricating photoreceptors. Photoreceptor device surfaces and fabrication methods have been designed to suppress a 'plywood effect.' One method includes providing a substrate, rotating the substrate, lathing the substrate with a cutting tool and a cutting fluid by at least one pass, cleaning the substrate to remove the cutting fluid, and depositing onto the substrate at least one layer.

Substrate with plywood suppression

A process for preparing an imaging member includes applying an organic layer to an imaging member substrate, treating the organic layer and/or a backside of the substrate with a corona discharge effluent, and applying an overcoating layer to the organic layer and/or an anticurl backing layer to the backside of the substrate.

Enhancing adhesion of organic electrostatographic imaging member overcoat and anticurl backing layers

A honing means produces sonic waves that suspend and propel a honing medium against a surface of a substrate. The honing medium impinges on the surface of the substrate and alters the substrate's surface roughness. The substrate and the honing means are positioned relative to each other to ensure substantial surface roughness uniformity.

Sonic honing of substrates

There is disclosed a method for depositing layered material onto a substrate including a layer formed from a coating solution, wherein the method comprises: (a) cleaning the substrate by dipping the substrate into and raising the substrate from a cleaning solvent selected from the group consisting of (i) a mixture comprising an alcohol and an alkane; and (ii) a liquid compatible with the coating solution; and (b) dipping the substrate subsequent to (a) into and raising the substrate from the coating solution, thereby depositing the layer on the substrate, wherein when the cleaning solvent is the liquid compatible with the coating solution, any cleaning solvent present on the substrate upon the dipping of the substrate into the coating solution fails to detrimentally affect the layer.

Coating method involving substrate cleaning

A photoreceptor fabrication method involving a photoreceptor substrate having a metal surface, comprising etching the metal surface of the photoreceptor substrate with an etching solution and forming a metal oxide layer on the metal surface with the etching solution, wherein the etching of the metal surface and the forming of the metal oxide layer are conducted in the absence of an electric current.

Photoreceptor fabrication method

A method for producing a photoreceptor having a substrate subjected to a surface finishing treatment to result in a finished substrate surface, wherein the method includes:

Electrochemical surface treatment

A cleaning solution for cleaning substrates such as imaging member substrates includes a weak acid, borax or a polyphosphate, an oil-soluble surfactant, and a water-soluble surfactant such as a water-soluble polysorbate, a polyethylene/polypropylene copolymer or a mixture thereof. The cleaning solution increases the cleaning capability of a corresponding cleaning process, and also improves the efficiency of the cleaning process by avoiding the necessity of neutralization and waste treatment operations.

Cleaning process for photoreceptor substrates

An aqueous-based cutting fluid for machining photoreceptor substrates contains:

Cutting fluid

A method of rendering nonreflective an imaging member substrate, preferably a photoreceptor substrate, involves etching the substrate with

Method for rendering imaging member substrates non-reflective

A method of cleaning a substrate includes:

Lathing and cleaning process for photoreceptor substrates

A method for applying a coating solution onto a substrate to form a coated portion thereon includes a dipping device for dipping and removing the substrate into and from the coating solution; and a heating device for inductively heating the substrate while the dipping device removes the substrate from the coating solution to uniformly dry an inner surface of the coated portion, the inner surface being adjacent to the substrate. The method advantageously may include a drying device for blowing hot gases onto the coated portion of the substrate while the dipping device removes the substrate from the coating solution. The drying device for blowing hot gases onto the coated portion of the substrate includes a plurality of slits arranged so that a plurality of hot gas streams flowing through corresponding ones of the plurality of slits impinge and exert a gas pressure on the coated portion, the plurality of slits being arranged so that a collective gas pressure from all hot gas streams is uniformly applied across the coated portion along a transverse direction so that the coated portion is squeezed to a uniform thickness as the dipping device removes the substrate.

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Gene W O'Dell