Patents by Inventor Hongguo Li

Hongguo Li has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7629094
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer comprises units obtained from a radical polymerizing monomer, in which an aliphatic group having two radical polymerizing groups and a charge transporting group including no radical polymerizing group are connected to each other in a single bond, at the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hongguo Li, Tamotsu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 7556903
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer overlying the electroconductive substrate. An outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is a crosslinked layer including a radical polymerizing monomer having three or more functional groups without a charge transporting structure. The outermost layer also includes a radical polymerizing compound having one functional group with a charge transporting structure and a reactive silicone compound having a radical polymerizing functional group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiki Yanagawa, Hiroshi Ikuno, Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hiroshi Tamura, Tetsuro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090162763
    Abstract: A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, the photosensitive layer including a cross-linking surface layer including a cross-linked copolymer of a radical polymerizable monomer (I) having at least three functional groups without a charge transport structure and a radical polymerizable monomer (II) having a charge transport structure, and a polysiloxane-acryl block copolymer having a charge transport property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Kyohji Okada, Tamotsu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 7507509
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including a crosslinked material including: units obtained from a radical polymerizing monomer A having three or more radical polymerizing groups; a compound B having the following formula (1): B1—Ar1—CH?CH—Ar2—B2 ??(1) wherein Ar1 represents a substituted or an unsubstituted monovalent group or bivalent group formed of an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton; Ar2 represents a monovalent group or a bivalent group formed of an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton or heterocyclic compound skeleton having one or more tertiaryamino group; and at least one of B1 and B2 is a hydrogen atom, and the other is an acryloyloxy group; a methacryloyloxy group; a vinyl group; an alkyl group having an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or a vinyl group; or an alkoxy group having an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or a vinyl group; and a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20080304867
    Abstract: An image bearing member including an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate and a cross linking surface layer comprising a charge transport curing compound and located overlying the photosensitive layer, wherein the charge transport curing compound includes a material including a structure unit represented by the following Chemical formula A: Chemical formula A where R1 to R5 and R1? to R5? independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R6 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and X represents an alkylene group having a straight chain or a branched chain having 2 to 5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Tamotsu Horiuchi, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikuno, Hongguo Li, Nobuya Mori
  • Patent number: 7416823
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor having at least a photoconductive layer on an electrically conductive support, in which a surface layer of the photoconductive layer can be obtained by curing at least a free-radical-polymerizable monomer having no charge transporting structure, represented by general formula (A) and a one-functional free-radical-polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure, wherein R71, R72, R73, R74, R75, and R76 are described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Yanagawa, Hiroshi Ikuno, Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hiroshi Tamura, Tetsuro Suzuki, Naohiro Toda, Yoshiaki Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 7361438
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the surface layer of the photoconductive layer contains at least a surface crosslinked layer formed by curing a tri- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomer without having a charge transporting structure and a mono-functional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure and the surface crosslinked layer has a surface roughness Rz of 1.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Ikuno, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20080063959
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor having a layer of a crosslinked resin obtained by reacting an epoxy group-containing amine compound having a charge transferability-imparting group with at least one silicon compound selected from an epoxy ring-free alkoxysilane compound, an epoxy ring-free silanol compound, an epoxy ring-containing alkoxysilane compound and an epoxy ring-containing silanol compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Kazukiyo NAGAI, Chiaki Tanaka, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikuno, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20080020305
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on an electroconductive substrate, which comprises at least a cross-linked surface layer formed by curing a tri- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomer without having a charge transporting structure and a mono-functional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure wherein the cross-linked surface layer has a surface roughness Rz of 1.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Ikuno, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20070292780
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor including: an outermost layer, wherein the outermost layer comprises an amino group-containing acryl-modified polyorganosiloxane, wherein the amino group-containing acryl-modified polyorganosiloxane is a copolymer in which a polyorganosiloxane represented by the following structural formula (1) and an acrylic monomer are graft-polymerized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li, Tetsuro Suzuki, Harukazu Okuda
  • Publication number: 20070269729
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor is provided, including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a resin including a graft copolymer in which a monomer having a polar group is graft polymerized to a polycarbonate resin, a polyarylate resin, or a copolymer thereof, and a filler; along with an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge using the electrophotographic photoreceptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikuno, Masafumi Ohta, Tomoyuki Shimada, Yuuji Tanaka, Hongguo Li
  • Patent number: 7279260
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor having a layer of a crosslinked resin obtained by reacting an epoxy group-containing amine compound having a charge transferability-imparting group with at least one silicon compound selected from an epoxy ring-free alkoxysilane compound, an epoxy ring-free silanol compound, an epoxy ring-containing alkoxysilane compound and an epoxy ring-containing silanol compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Chiaki Tanaka, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikuno, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20070122724
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the surface layer of the photoconductive layer contains at least a surface crosslinked layer formed by curing a tri- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomer without having a charge transporting structure and a mono-functional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure and the surface crosslinked layer has a surface roughness Rz of 1.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Ikuno, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li
  • Patent number: 7179573
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on an electroconductive substrate, which comprises at least a cross-linked surface layer formed by curing a tri- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomer without having a charge transporting structure and a mono-functional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure wherein the cross-linked surface layer has a surface roughness Rz of 1.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Ikuno, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li
  • Patent number: 7175957
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoconductor including at least a photoconductive layer on a conductive substrate, wherein the surface layer of the photoconductive layer contains at least a surface crosslinked layer formed by curing a tri- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomer without having a charge transporting structure and a mono-functional radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure and the surface crosslinked layer has a surface roughness Rz of 1.3 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hiroshi Ikuno, Kazukiyo Nagai, Hongguo Li
  • Patent number: 7175958
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor contains a conductive support; and a photoconductive layer disposed on the photoconductive support; wherein the photoconductive layer contains an azo compound expressed by a general formula <<1>> ArN?N—Cp)n,??(<<1>>) wherein in the general formula <<1>>, Ar is a substituted or non-substituted aromatic series hydrocarbon group or an aromatic series heterocyclic ring group which can be bonded by way of a bonding group; Cp is a coupler residual group; n represents an integer of 1, 2, 3, or 4, at least one of the Cp is a coupler residual group selected from the group consisting of general formulae <<2>>, <<3>>, and <<4>> wherein in the general formulae <<2>>, <<3>>, and <<4>>, all substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Shoshi, Yuuko Komai, Hongguo Li, Masaomi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20060160003
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer comprises units obtained from a radical polymerizing monomer, in which an aliphatic group having two radical polymerizing groups and a charge transporting group including no radical polymerizing group are connected to each other in a single bond, at the surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hongguo Li, Tamotsu Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20060122303
    Abstract: An organic-inorganic hybrid material, including a charge transportable organic polymer and a metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai
  • Publication number: 20060078809
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including a crosslinked material including: units obtained from a radical polymerizing monomer A having three or more radical polymerizing groups; a compound B having the following formula (1): B1—Ar1—CH?CH—Ar2—B2 ??(1) wherein Ar1 represents a substituted or an unsubstituted monovalent group or bivalent group formed of an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton; Ar2 represents a monovalent group or a bivalent group formed of an aromatic hydrocarbon skeleton or heterocyclic compound skeleton having one or more tertiaryamino group; and at least one of B1 and B2 is a hydrogen atom, and the other is an acryloyloxy group; a methacryloyloxy group; a vinyl group; an alkyl group having an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or a vinyl group; or an alkoxy group having an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group or a vinyl group; and a photo polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Kazukiyo Nagai, Tetsuro Suzuki, Hiroshi Tamura, Hongguo Li
  • Publication number: 20060014093
    Abstract: A photoconductor comprising a photosensitive layer disposed on a support, wherein the photosensitive layer has a crosslinked layer and the crosslinked layer is produced by curing a dispersion in which at least one of an acryl-modified polyoraganosiloxane having a radical reactivity and an acryl-modified polyoraganosiloxane having an amine structure is dispersed in a radical polymerizable monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Hongguo Li, Kazukiyo Nagai, Tetsuro Suzuki, Yasuo Suzuki, Harukazu Okuda, Masahide Hatanaka