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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2006
Hiroshi Sugimura, Habikino, JP;
Kotaro Fukushima, Kawanishi, JP;
Koichi Toriyama, Yao, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electrophotographic photoconductor of the invention comprising: an conductive support; a light-sensitive layer formed on the conductive support and containing a charge generating material and a charge transport material; and a surface protective layer formed on the light-sensitive layer and made of a resin composition, wherein the resin composition constituting the surface protective layer contains an amine compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are, the same or different, each an alkyl group or an allyl group which may have a substituent or a heterocyclic residue to be formed through or not through a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom together with the nitrogen atom to which R1 and R2 are bonded, R3 and R4 are, the same or different, each an alkyl group having a substituent and n denotes 1 or 2, provided that when n is 1, X is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group, a hydroxyl group or a mercapto group which may have a substituent, or a ring optionally containing an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom between carbon atoms and when n is 2, X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.