Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Yoichi Kigoshi

Takashi Imai

Takeshi Iwanaga

Masaki Hirakata

Nobuyuki Torigoe

Masahiro Iwasaki

Fumiaki Mera

Keisuke Kusano

Hideya Katsuhara

Jiro Korenaga

Satomi Kashiwagi

Kenta Ide

Michinori Fukuma

Yuki Oyamada

Kenji Kajiwara

Yuko Iwadate

Kosuke Narita

Satoshi Mizoguchi

Tatsuki Sano

Ryota Kaneko

Shuhei Yamazaki

An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, containing a binder resin and an electron transport material, and satisfying Expression 1-1, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer, a charging device that charges a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor with a developer containing a toner to form a toner image, and a transfer device that transfers the toner image to a surface of a recording medium, in which a moving time of an outer peripheral surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, required from charging performed by the charging device to development performed by the developing device, is 90 msec or longer,

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has an outermost surface layer containing fluorine-containing resin particles, a charge transport material, and a binder resin, in which the number of carboxy groups contained in the fluorine-containing resin particles is 0 or greater and 30 or less per 10carbon atoms, and the outermost surface layer has a tan δ of 0.025 or greater and 0.030 or less, a charging device that comes into direct contact with the electrophotographic photoreceptor and applies only a DC voltage to charge the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the charged electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor with a developer containing a toner to form a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image by bringing the electrophotographic photoreceptor and a medium to be transferred into direct contact with each other, and a cleaning device that cleans the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor.

Image forming apparatus including an electrophotographic photoreceptor

An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate, and a photoconductive layer, in which an outermost surface layer contains a binder resin, a charge transporting material, fluorine-containing resin particles, and an acidic compound, the number of carboxyl groups in the fluorine-containing resin particles is 0 or more and 30 or less per 10carbon atoms of the fluorine-containing resin particles, and in a case where charging and exposure of the electrophotographic photoconductor are repeated 10,000 times under conditions of a charging potential of −700 V and an exposure intensity of 5 mJ/m, an absolute value |RP−RP| of a difference between a residual potential RPafter charging and exposure once and a residual potential RPafter charging and exposure 10,000 times is 25 V or less.

Electrophotographic photoconductor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer on the conductive substrate, a charge generation layer on the undercoat layer, a charge transport layer on the charge generation layer, and an inorganic protection layer on the charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer contains a binder resin and a charge transport material, and, when impedance of the charge transport layer is measured, a ratio (C/C) of an electrostatic capacitance Cat 1 Hz to an electrostatic capacitance Cat 10 Hz is 1.1 or less.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

Electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate, an organic photosensitive layer on an outer peripheral surface of the conductive substrate, and an inorganic protective layer on an outer peripheral surface of the organic photosensitive layer, the inorganic protective layer containing gallium and oxygen. A volume resistivity of an inner region of the inorganic protective layer, the inner region extending 0.2 &#x3bc;m or about 0.2 &#x3bc;m from an inner peripheral surface of the inorganic protective layer in a thickness direction, and a volume resistivity of an outer region of the inorganic protective layer, the outer region extending 0.2 &#x3bc;m or about 0.2 &#x3bc;m from an outer peripheral surface of the inorganic protective layer in the thickness direction, are both 6.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or more and 4.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or less or about 6.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or more and about 4.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or less.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive base; an organic photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive base, the organic photosensitive layer including a layer that constitutes a surface and contains a charge transport material, a binder resin having a viscosity-average molecular weight less than about 50,000, and silica particles in an amount of about 40% by weight or more; and an inorganic protective layer disposed on the organic photosensitive layer.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A unit for an image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate, a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer provided so as to contact with an outermost surface of the photosensitive layer, and an exposure section that exposes the electrophotographic photoreceptor with a light having a wavelength (&#x3bb;) (nm) so as to form an electrostatic latent image on a charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, wherein a surface roughness (Rz1) (nm) of the outermost surface of the photosensitive layer satisfies an expression of [(Rz1)&#x2267;(&#x3bb;)/(4&#xd7;(n2))] where a refractive index of the surface layer is set as (n2), and an outermost surface of the surface layer has a surface shape different from the outermost surface of the photosensitive layer.

Unit for image forming apparatus, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and electrophotographic photoreceptor

An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an electroconductive substrate, an organic photosensitive layer on the electroconductive substrate and an inorganic protective layer on the organic photosensitive layer, wherein a layer that forms a surface of the organic photosensitive layer contains a charge transporting material, a binder resin, and a silica particle; the inorganic protective layer contains a group 13 element, an oxygen atom, and a hydrogen atom; a sum of element constitution ratios of the group 13 element, the oxygen atom, and the hydrogen atom to all elements constituting the inorganic protective layer is equal to or more than 90 atomic %; and an element composition ratio (oxygen atom/group 13 element) of the oxygen atom and the group 13 element is 1.0 or more and less than 1.5.

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Yoichi Kigoshi