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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:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mikio Yamazaki, Nagano, JP;
Osamu Nabeta, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 5/04 ;
Abstract
A photoconductor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer on the substrate, and at least one photosensitive layer on the undercoat layer. The radius of vacancy type defects in each of the photosensitive layer and in the undercoat layer is o.4 nm or less. In one embodiment, the radius of vacancy type defects is measured by a positron annihilation method.