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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1996
Mamoru Nozomi, Odawara, JP;
Osamu Murakami, Chesapeake, VA (US);
Masahiro Fuse, Odawara, JP;
Makoto Furuune, Yokohama, JP;
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising an electrically conductive support and at least a carrier generation layer and a carrier transport layer formed on the substrate, wherein said carrier generation layer contains a polyester resin having a repeating structural unit of the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is an alkylene group which may have a substituent; each of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent or an aryl group which may have a substituent, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 may together form a ring; Ar is an arylene group which may have a substituent; each of Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 is a phenylene group which may have a substituent; and each of m and n is from 0 to 10, provided that m and n are not simultaneously 0.