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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Nobutaka Eguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiro Sugino, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidetoshi Kami, Shizuoka, JP;
Keisuke Shimoyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Egawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Nobutaka Eguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiro Sugino, Shizuoka, JP;
Hidetoshi Kami, Shizuoka, JP;
Keisuke Shimoyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Egawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A photoconductor includes an electroconductive substrate; an intermediate layer overlying the electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer overlying the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer includes a metal oxide particle and a binder resin, and satisfies the following relations (1) and (2):cut/  (1)0.4≦≦0.6  (2)where Smr represents an areal ratio of concave parts; Sk represents a reference area; and a Scut represents a cross-sectional area obtained by cutting a three-dimensional curved surface obtained from the reference area with an average height surface, the average height surface being a surface constituted of averaged height of all measured height data.