Patents by Inventor Keisuke KUSANO

Keisuke KUSANO 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: 11048181
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate. An outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing resin particles and a fluorine-containing graft polymer having a fluorinated alkyl group. In an infrared absorption spectrum of the fluorine-containing graft polymer, a ratio of a peak area in a wavenumber range of from 1,020 cm?1 to 1,308 cm?1 to a peak area in a wavenumber range of from 1,673 cm?1 to 1,779 cm?1 is 2.7 or more and 4.8 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwasaki, Wataru Yamada, Ryosuke Fujii, Keisuke Kusano, Taisuke Fukui, Yuto Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20210181645
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing resin particles, a fluorine graft polymer, and an acidic compound having an acid dissociation constant (pKa) of 3 or less in water at 25° C. The amount of the acidic compound relative to the outermost surface layer is 100 ppm or more and 10000 ppm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD,
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwasaki, Wataru Yamada, Keisuke Kusano, Yuto Okazaki, Taisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210088918
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate. An outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a fluorine-containing resin particle and a fluorine-based graft polymer having a fluorinated alkyl group. A ratio of an amount of a fluorine-based graft polymer separated from the fluorine-containing resin particle to a total amount of the fluorine-based graft polymer in the outermost surface layer is 15% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Wataru YAMADA, Masahiro IWASAKI, Ryosuke FUJII, Yuto OKAZAKI, Taisuke FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20200257210
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing resin particle contains 0 or more and 30 or less carboxyl groups per 106 carbon atoms and 0 ppm or more and 3 ppm or less of a basic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru YAMADA, Masahiro Iwasaki, Ryosuke Fujii, Keisuke Kusano, Yuto Okazaki, Taisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20200257212
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate. An outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine-containing resin particles and a fluorine-containing graft polymer having a fluorinated alkyl group. In an infrared absorption spectrum of the fluorine-containing graft polymer, a ratio of a peak area in a wavenumber range of from 1,020 cm?1 to 1,308 cm?1 to a peak area in a wavenumber range of from 1,673 cm?1 to 1,779 cm?1 is 2.7 or more and 4.8 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Wataru Yamada, Ryosuke Fujii, Keisuke Kusano, Taisuke Fukui, Yuto Okazaki
  • Patent number: 10705441
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujii, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Taisuke Fukui, Yuto Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20200012205
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer on the conductive substrate; a charge generating layer on the undercoat layer; a charge transporting layer on the charge generating layer; and an inorganic protective layer on the charge transporting layer. The undercoat layer, the charge transporting layer, and the inorganic protective layer each have a film elastic modulus of 5 GPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi KIGOSHI, Takeshi IWANAGA, Nobuyuki TORIGOE, Masaki HIRAKATA, Hideya KATSUHARA, Keisuke KUSANO
  • Patent number: 10372049
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a single-layer photosensitive layer. The conductive support has an outer peripheral surface with a maximum surface roughness height (Rmax) of about 4.0 ?m or less, and the outer peripheral surface has a recess with a depth-to-aperture size ratio (depth/aperture size) of about 0.03 or more and about 0.12 or less. The single-layer photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support and has a thickness of about 20 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of about 4.5 GPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kawasaki, Hirofumi Nakamura, Yohei Saito, Keisuke Kusano
  • Patent number: 10152013
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single-layer type disposed on the conductive substrate. The photosensitive layer has an absorption coefficient of 0.008 or less at a wavelength of 1000 nm and contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, an electron transporting material, and a hole transporting material. The charge generating material is at least one selected from a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine pigment and a chlorogallium phthalocyanine pigment and is contained in an amount of 0.9% by weight or more and 1.8% by weight or less relative to the binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Yu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180275538
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a single-layer photosensitive layer. The conductive support has an outer peripheral surface with a maximum surface roughness height (Rmax) of about 4.0 ?m or less, and the outer peripheral surface has a recess with a depth-to-aperture size ratio (depth/aperture size) of about 0.03 or more and about 0.12 or less. The single-layer photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support and has a thickness of about 20 ?m or more and a modulus of elasticity of about 4.5 GPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro KAWASAKI, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Yohei SAITO, Keisuke KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20180196364
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive base, and a single-layer photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive base and containing a binder resin, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a charge generation material. When a gold electrode is provided on the photosensitive layer so as to have an electrode area of 9.3×10?1 cm2, and an electric field of 27 V/?m is applied between the gold electrode and the conductive base in an environment at a temperature of 33° C. and a humidity of 80% RH by applying a voltage so that the gold electrode becomes positive, a dark electrical conductivity ?d (1/(?·cm)) per unit area is about 4.6×10?14 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiteru YAMADA, Keisuke KUSANO
  • Publication number: 20180088516
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer of a single-layer type disposed on the conductive substrate. The photosensitive layer has an absorption coefficient of 0.008 or less at a wavelength of 1000 nm and contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, an electron transporting material, and a hole transporting material. The charge generating material is at least one selected from a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine pigment and a chlorogallium phthalocyanine pigment and is contained in an amount of 0.9% by weight or more and 1.8% by weight or less relative to the binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Yu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9829812
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layer-type photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The single-layer-type photosensitive layer contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, an electron transporting material, and a hole transporting material. The single-layer-type photosensitive layer has a concentration ratio (A/B) of 0.7 or more and 1.0 or less, where the concentration ratio (A/B) is a ratio of a concentration A of the electron transporting material relative to the binder resin measured from a surface of the photosensitive layer remote from the conductive substrate to a concentration B of the electron transporting material relative to the binder resin measured from a surface of the photosensitive layer close to the conductive substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Masahiro Iwasaki, Jiro Korenaga, Yukimi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20170261872
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layer-type photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The single-layer-type photosensitive layer contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, an electron transporting material, and a hole transporting material. The single-layer-type photosensitive layer has a concentration ratio (A/B) of 0.7 or more and 1.0 or less, where the concentration ratio (A/B) is a ratio of a concentration A of the electron transporting material relative to the binder resin measured from a surface of the photosensitive layer remote from the conductive substrate to a concentration B of the electron transporting material relative to the binder resin measured from a surface of the photosensitive layer close to the conductive substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Masahiro IWASAKI, Jiro KORENAGA, Yukimi KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 9557662
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layer photosensitive layer which is provided on the conductive substrate and contains a binder resin, at least one charge generating material selected from a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine pigment and a chlorogallium phthalocyanine pigment, a first electron transporting material defined in the specification, a second electron transporting material defined in the specification, and a hole transporting material defined in the specification, wherein a total content of all electron transporting materials is greater than or equal to 4 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total solid content of the photosensitive layer, and an average loss elastic modulus E? of the photosensitive layer, which is obtained by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity at a temperature of from 35° C. to 50° C. and a frequency of 0.5 Hz, is less than or equal to 1.000×106.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kusano, Jiro Korenaga, Yoshifumi Shoji, Yukimi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20160282734
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layer photosensitive layer which is provided on the conductive substrate and contains a binder resin, at least one charge generating material selected from a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine pigment and a chlorogallium phthalocyanine pigment, a first electron transporting material defined in the specification, a second electron transporting material defined in the specification, and a hole transporting material defined in the specification, wherein a total content of all electron transporting materials is greater than or equal to 4 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total solid content of the photosensitive layer, and an average loss elastic modulus E? of the photosensitive layer, which is obtained by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity at a temperature of from 35° C. to 50° C. and a frequency of 0.5 Hz, is less than or equal to 1.000×106.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Jiro KORENAGA, Yoshifumi SHOJI, Yukimi KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 9335644
    Abstract: Provided is an electron transport material represented by formula (1): wherein X represents an oxygen atom or ?C(CN)2; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; R8, R9, and R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, —R11—O—R12, or —R13—CO—O—R14; R11 represents a linear or branched alkylene group; R12 represents a linear or branched alkyl group; R13 represents a single bond or a linear or branched alkylene group; and R14 represents a linear or branched alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group, provided that at least two or more groups of R8, R9, and R10 represent a group other than a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Iwasaki, Shinya Yamamoto, Jiro Korenaga, Daisuke Haruyama, Yukimi Kawabata, Keisuke Kusano, Kenta Shingu, Yoshifumi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20160085164
    Abstract: Provided is an electron transport material represented by formula (1): wherein X represents an oxygen atom or ?C(CN)2; R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group; R8, R9, and R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, —R11—O—R12, or —R13—CO—O—R14; R11 represents a linear or branched alkylene group; R12 represents a linear or branched alkyl group; R13 represents a single bond or a linear or branched alkylene group; and R14 represents a linear or branched alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group, provided that at least two or more groups of R8, R9, and R10 represent a group other than a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Jiro KORENAGA, Daisuke HARUYAMA, Yukimi KAWABATA, Keisuke KUSANO, Kenta SHINGU, Yoshifumi SHOJI
  • Publication number: 20110017958
    Abstract: A method for producing a transparent electroconductive material, the method comprising a step of contacting poly(N-alkylcarbazole) with a metal, said poly(N-alkylcarbazole) is obtained by polymerizing at least one kind of N-alkylcarbazole represented by the following general formula, wherein n represents an integer of 1 or more, and at least one hydrogen in the alkyl may be replaced by at least one group selected from hydroxyl, carboxyl, sulfo and amino.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITY, CHISSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi HOSHINO, Yoshiyasu TANAKA, Keisuke KUSANO, Takeshi CHIBA, Takenori IZUMIZAWA, Minako KUBO