Photoconductive imaging members

US6967069B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jin Wu · Pittsford, US
• Jennifer Hwang · Penfield, US
• Liang-Bih Lin · Rochester, US
• Geoffrey M. T. Foley · Fairport, US
• John J. Wilbert · Macedon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G5/144
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A photoconductive imaging member including a hole blocking layer, a photogenerating layer, and a charge transport layer, and wherein the hole blocking layer contains, for example, a metal oxide dispersed in an in situ formed inorganic/organic network wherein the inorganic component is silica, titania or zirconia, and the organic component is a mixture of a phenolic compound and a phenolic resin, and wherein the phenolic compound can contain, for example, at least two phenolic groups.