Patents by Inventor Kozo Oka

Kozo Oka 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: 4426435
    Abstract: An electrophotographic light-sensitive member comprising a conductive support, a photoconductive layer and a protective outer layer, the protective outer layer comprising at least one particulate metal oxide having a mean particle size below about 0.3 .mu.m dispersed in an organic resin binder material. The electrophotographic light-sensitive member may be prepared by initially forming the protective outer layer and thereafter applying the photoconductive layer and conductive support thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Rank Xerox Limited
    Inventor: Kozo Oka
  • Patent number: 4409309
    Abstract: An electrophotographic light-sensitive element which is useful in the Carlson electrophotographic process is disclosed, comprising an electrically conductive support having provided thereon a photoconductive layer and a protective layer wherein said protective layer has a thickness of from 1 to 30 .mu.m and contains a powder of a metal oxide having a volume intrinsic resistance of 10.sup.11 .OMEGA..multidot.cm or less and a mean particle size of 0.3 .mu.m or less dispersed in a binder resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kozo Oka
  • Patent number: 4382118
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a conductive support, a charge generating layer overlying the conductive support and a charge transport layer overlying the generating layer, the charge transporting layer comprising an electrically inactive organic resin binder having dispersed therein inorganic n-type semiconductive particles having a mean particle size below about 0.1 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1983
    Assignee: Rank Xerox Limited
    Inventor: Kozo Oka
  • Patent number: 4293630
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive body comprising a conductive support, a photoconductive layer thereon and a protective layer. The protective layer comprises a binder resin, an aromatic diamine and an organic halogen capable of producing a free halogen atom, such as iodoform, carbon tetraiodide, pentabromoethane, p-nitrotribromoacetophenone, trichloroacetophenone, tribromomethylphenylsulfone, bis(tribromomethyl)-sulfoxide, and p-bromobenzenedichlorosulfonamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Rank Xerox Limited
    Inventor: Kozo Oka
  • Patent number: 4197119
    Abstract: In an electrophotographic process for the formation of an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive element for electrophotography produced through the sequential lamination on an electrically conductive substrate of an electrically insulating layer, a photoconductive layer, and an electrically insulating surface layer by repeating a series of steps comprising a first charging; a light exposure of the entire surface; a second charging of a polarity opposite to that of the first charging; and an image-wise exposure to light, wherein the polarity between the first electrical charging and the second electrical charging is changed from positive to negative and vice versa simultaneously (either a positive image or a negative image can be obtained from an original using the same developer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1980
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Sadamatsu, Kozo Oka
  • Patent number: 4170476
    Abstract: A photosensitive material for electrophotography comprising a support having thereon a photoconductive layer and an electrically insulating layer, in which the photoconductive layer is a vacuum-deposited film substantially comprising Se with a surface layer portion of the vacuum-deposited film contacting the electrically insulating layer containing, within a thickness of about 10 .mu. or less, about 1 to about 50% by weight of As and/or Te and about 0.5 to about 1000 ppm of at least one element of Group IIIb of the Periodic Table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1979
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Sadamatsu, Kozo Oka