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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430 58 ; 430 66 ; 399297 ;
Abstract
An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a support and a photosensitive layer provided on the support. The photosensitive layer containing a polysilane compound which has a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) and has as a terminal group of the polymer chain a group selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, alkoxy and aryloxy ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aralkyl group; R.sub.2 represents an ethyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a vinyl group, or an alkyl group or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 3 or more carbon atoms, whose carbon atom directly bonded to the phenyl group is a primary carbon atom or a secondary carbon atom.