Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Toshinori Yamazaki

Hiroyuki Nomori

Tatsuo Nakanishi

Eiichi Sakai

Masatoshi Matsuzaki

Isao Myokan

Tetsuo Shima

Satoshi Haneda

Masakazu Fukuchi

Shizuo Morita

Tadashi Miwa

Yoshihide Fujimaki

Yasuhiko Tanaka

Satoru Ikeuchi

Kiyoaki Kawamoto

Yuji Marukawa

Tetsuko Omoto

Yuki Okuyama

Masato Ueda

Shigeki Takenouchi

In a toner image fixing device, there are provided an endless belt being looped up around a heating roller and a conveyance roller, a pressure roller for pressing a sheet having a toner image onto the heating roller with the endless belt intervening between the pressure roller and the heating roller. A sensor is disposed inside the loop of the belt so as to come in contact with the heating roller, for detecting the temperature of the heating roller. The fixing temperature for the toner image is controlled on the basis of the temperature of the heating roller detected by the sensor. A first nip region is formed on a pressing portion located between the heating roller and the fixing roller. A second nip region is formed between the belt and the fixing roller, continuing from the first nip region but without contacting the heating roller.

Fixing apparatus having two nip regions

An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of developing an electrostatic image formed on an image-forming member with a particulate toner for forming a toner image and transferring said toner image onto a receiving material, in which the image-forming member has a surface-improving layer comprised principally of amorphous silicon, and the toner has a weight average particle size within the range of from 1 .mu.m to 6 .mu.m and contains a constituent having a weight average particle size of not more than 5 .mu.m which accounts for not less than 20% by weight of the whole amount of the toner. An electrophotographic copy bearing a high-resolution and high-quality image can be stably obtained by this method.

Imaging member having an amorphous silicon surface layer

Disclosed is a photoreceptor which comprises a charge generation layer composed of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amorphous hydrogenated silicon, amorphous fluorinated silicon and amorphous hydrofluorinated silicon, a charge transport layer formed on a lower surface of said charge generation layer and composed of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amorphous hydrogenated silicon nitride, amorphous fluorinated silicon nitride, amorphous hydrofluorinated silicon nitride, amorphous hydrogenated silicon carbide, amorphous fluorinated silicon carbide and amorphous hydrofluorinated silicon carbide, and a substrate, wherein said charge transport layer contains oxygen within the range of from 50 atomic ppm to 5 atomic % based on the total atoms of silicon, nitrogen and carbon. The photoreceptor of this invention can be improved in the electrophotographic characteristics greatly with reduction of dependency on temperature by making the oxygen content in the charge transport layer 50 atomic ppm to 5 atomic %.

Multilayer photoreceptor

An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a photosensitive layer comprising

Amorphous silicon electrophotographic receptor having controlled carbon

A photosensitive member wherein a charge transporting layer, a charge generating layer, and a surface modifying layer are laminated on a retainer. The charge transporting layer is prepared from one selected from a group of a-SiC:H, a-SiC:F, a-SiC:H:F, a-SiN:H, a-SiN:F, and a-SiN:H:F, the charge generating layer is prepared from one selected from a group of a-Si:H, a-Si:F and a-Si:H:F; and the surface modifying layer is prepared from one selected from a group of a-SiC:H, a-SiC:F, a-SiC:H:F, a-SiN:H, a-SiN:F and a-SiN:H:F. The surface modifying layer contains 1.about.50 atomic % of oxygen, 100 atomic % in total of Si, C (or N) and 0 atoms.

Multi-layered electrophotographic photosensitive member having amorphous

A photoreceptor comprising a support bearing thereon a charge transport layer comprising one selected from the group consisting of a--SiC:H, a--SiC:F and a--SiC:H:F, a charge generating layer comprising one selected from the group consisting of a--SiH, a--SiF and a SiH:F, an a--Si type surface modifying layer containing one selected from the group consisting of N, O and C, and an a--Si type interlayer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of N, O and C, the content of said at least one of N, O and C in said interlayer being less than in said surface modifying layer, said interlayer being interposed between said charge generating layer and said surface modifying layer.

Photoreceptor having amorphous silicon layers

A process for producing a photoreceptor is disclosed. A gaseous compound of the constituent materials of the photoreceptor is decomposed by glow discharge in the presence of a metal, thereby forming a constituent layer containing atoms and or ions of the metal.

Photoreceptor comprising amorphous layer doped with atoms and/or ions of

Disclosed is a multilayered electrophotographic recording material comprising a charge transfer layer and a charge generating layer on a substrate. The layers are comprised of essentially amorphous silicon. At least 1 atomic percent of nitrogen is present in the charge transfer layer.

Recording material for electrophotography comprising amorphous silicon

A photoreceptor comprising a photoconductive layer composed of hydrogenated and/or fluorinated amorphous silicon, a surface modifying layer formed on the above photoconductive layer and composed of hydrogenated and/or fluorinated amorphous silicon carbide and a charge transport layer formed below the above photoconductive layer and composed of hydrogenated and/or fluorinated amorphous silicon carbide wherein the thickness 't' of the above surface modifying layer is selected in a range 400 .ANG..ltoreq.t&lt;2,000 .ANG..

Electrophotographic photoreceptors having amorphous silicon

Disclosed is a photosensitive member, or an electrophotographic photosensitive member, characterised by having a photoconductive layer comprising at least one of an amorphous hydrogenated and/or fluorinated silicon germanium and an amorphous hydrogenated and/or fluorinated silicon germanium carbide, a first amorphous hydrogenated and/or fluorinated silicon carbide layer formed on the photoconductive layer and a second amorphous hydrogenated and/or fluorinated silicon carbide layer formed beneath said photoconductive layer.

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Toshinori Yamazaki