Patents by Inventor Kazuaki EZURE

Kazuaki EZURE 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).

  • Publication number: 20230097281
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and an at-least-one-layer photosensitive layer including a specific photosensitive layer. The specific photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a binder resin, an electron transport material, and a hole transport material. The binder resin includes a polyarylate resin. The polyarylate resin includes repeating units (1), (2), (3), and (4). A percentage of the number of repeats of the repeating unit (3) relative to a total number of repeats of the repeating units (1) and (3) is greater than 0% and less than 50%. A percentage of the number of repeats of the repeating unit (4) relative to a total number of repeats of the repeating units (2) and (4) is at least 35% and less than 70%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro OTSUBO, Kazunari HAMASAKI, Katsuya TAKANO, Kazuaki EZURE
  • Publication number: 20220128913
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single layer and contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a polyarylate resin. The polyarylate resin includes repeating units represented by formulas (1), (2), and (3). A ratio n1/n2 of the number n1 of repeats of the repeating unit represented by formula (1) to the number n2 of repeats of the repeating unit represented by formula (2) is at least 1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomofumi SHIMIZU, Makoto SHISHIDO, Kazuaki EZURE, Kiichiro OJI, Katsuya TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11243481
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a binder resin, a hole transport material, and an electron transport material. The binder resin includes a polyester resin. The polyester resin includes a first repeating unit represented by general formula (1) shown below and a second repeating unit represented by general formula (2) shown below. A content percentage of the polyester resin in the photosensitive layer is at least 0.3% by mass and no greater than 7.0% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Ezure, Tomofumi Shimizu, Hayase Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11204561
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a binder resin, a hole transport material, and an electron transport material. The binder resin includes a polyester resin and a polycarbonate resin. The polyester resin includes a first repeating unit represented by general formula (1) shown below and a second repeating unit represented by general formula (2) shown below. The polycarbonate resin includes a third repeating unit represented by general formula (3) shown below and a fourth repeating unit represented by general formula (24) shown below. A content percentage of the polyester resin in the photosensitive layer is at least 0.3% by mass and no greater than 7.0% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shimizu, Kazuaki Ezure, Hayase Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10996575
    Abstract: A photosensitive layer included in an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains at least a charge generating material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin. The hole transport material includes a compound (1). The binder resin includes a polyarylate resin having at least one repeating unit (10) and at least one repeating unit (11). Alternatively, the binder resin includes a polycarbonate resin having a repeating unit (20) and a repeating unit (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Shimizu, Kazuaki Ezure, Hayase Yamamoto, Jun Azuma
  • Publication number: 20200356017
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a binder resin, a hole transport material, and an electron transport material. The binder resin includes a polyester resin. The polyester resin includes a first repeating unit represented by general formula (1) shown below and a second repeating unit represented by general formula (2) shown below. A content percentage of the polyester resin in the photosensitive layer is at least 0.3% by mass and no greater than 7.0% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki EZURE, Tomofumi SHIMIZU, Hayase YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200356018
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a binder resin, a hole transport material, and an electron transport material. The binder resin includes a polyester resin and a polycarbonate resin. The polyester resin includes a first repeating unit represented by general formula (1) shown below and a second repeating unit represented by general formula (2) shown below. The polycarbonate resin includes a third repeating unit represented by general formula (3) shown below and a fourth repeating unit represented by general formula (24) shown below. A content percentage of the polyester resin in the photosensitive layer is at least 0.3% by mass and no greater than 7.0% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomofumi SHIMIZU, Kazuaki EZURE, Hayase YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200233324
    Abstract: A photosensitive layer included in an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains at least a charge generating material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin. The hole transport material includes a compound (1). The binder resin includes a polyarylate resin having at least one repeating unit (10) and at least one repeating unit (11). Alternatively, the binder resin includes a polycarbonate resin having a repeating unit (20) and a repeating unit (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tomofumi SHIMIZU, Kazuaki EZURE, Hayase YAMAMOTO, Jun AZUMA
  • Patent number: 9213229
    Abstract: A positively chargeable electrophotographic photosensitive member has a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer at least includes the following layers layered in the stated order: (I) a charge transport layer at least containing a hole transport material and a binder resin; and (II) a charge generating-and-transporting layer at least containing a charge generating material, an electron transport material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin all within this layer. The binder resin contained in the charge transport layer is different from the binder resin contained in the charge generating-and-transporting layer, and either of the binder resins contains a polyvinyl acetal resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Iwashita, Yukimasa Watanabe, Junichiro Otsubo, Kazuaki Ezure, Kazutaka Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140212803
    Abstract: A positively chargeable electrophotographic photosensitive member has a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer at least includes the following layers layered in the stated order: (I) a charge transport layer at least containing a hole transport material and a binder resin; and (II) a charge generating-and-transporting layer at least containing a charge generating material, an electron transport material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin all within this layer. The binder resin contained in the charge transport layer is different from the binder resin contained in the charge generating-and-transporting layer, and either of the binder resins contains a polyvinyl acetal resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yuko IWASHITA, Yukimasa WATANABE, Junichiro OTSUBO, Kazuaki EZURE, Kazutaka SUGIMOTO