Patents by Inventor Shinji Takagi

Shinji Takagi 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: 10042272
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member being excellent in abrasion resistance and having good electrical characteristics. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a copolymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a specified structure and a compound having a specified structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Haruki Mori, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9946175
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies abrasion resistance and electrical properties and which is difficult to cause image deletion. A surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member of this invention contains a polymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a polymerizable functional group, in which the hole transporting compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms; and a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, one or more oxygen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Yuzo Tokunaga, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu
  • Publication number: 20170364025
    Abstract: The present invention provides a satisfactory electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical properties and further, with which image defects do not occur, a process for producing an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member the surface layer of which contains a copolymer of a polymerizable functional group-containing charge transporting substance and a particular polymerizable compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori
  • Patent number: 9829810
    Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product obtained by copolymerizing at least one compound (i) selected from the group consisting of a triphenylamine compound having a hydroxymethyl group and a benzidine compound having a hydroxymethyl group, and at least one compound (ii) selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2), a compound represented by the following formula (3), and a compound represented by the following formula (4):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20170315458
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member, in which occurrences of image defects are suppressed, and a method for manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member are provided. In addition, a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus, which include the electrophotographic photosensitive member, are provided. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured material, and the cured material is a copolymer of a hole transport compound having a chain-polymerizable functional group and a vinyl ester compound containing a long-chain alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Haruki Mori, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Koichi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20170299971
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member being excellent in abrasion resistance and having good electrical characteristics. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a copolymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a specified structure and a compound having a specified structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Haruki Mori, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9740117
    Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical characteristics, and in which image deletion is satisfactorily suppressed, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface layer which includes a polymerized product of a hole transporting substance having a reactive functional group, in which a structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance is one of: a structure consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom; and a structure consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom, and the structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance comprises a specific conjugate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi
  • Publication number: 20170131646
    Abstract: In an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product obtained by copolymerizing at least one compound (i) selected from the group consisting of a triphenylamine compound having a hydroxymethyl group and a benzidine compound having a hydroxymethyl group, and at least one compound (ii) selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2), a compound represented by the following formula (3), and a compound represented by the following formula (4):
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20170108789
    Abstract: To provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies abrasion resistance and electrical properties and which is difficult to cause image deletion. A surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member of this invention contains a polymerized product of a hole transporting compound having a polymerizable functional group, in which the hole transporting compound is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms; and a compound consisting of one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atoms, one or more oxygen atoms, and one or more halogen atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Yuzo Tokunaga, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu
  • Patent number: 9594318
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including: a support; and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product of a compound represented by the following structural formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Haruki Mori
  • Patent number: 9477164
    Abstract: A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product of a composition containing a hole transporting substance having an acryloyloxy group and/or a methacryloyloxy group and a siloxane-modified acrylic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 9389523
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member excellent in suppression of image deletion and electric potential variation. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a hole transporting substance. The hole transporting substance is one of a compound consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom, or a compound consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom, and an oxygen atom. The hole transporting substance comprises a conjugate structure containing 24 or more sp2 carbon atoms. The conjugate structure comprises a condensed polycyclic structure comprising 12 or more sp2 carbon atoms. A ratio of a number of sp2 carbon atoms is 55% or more based on a total number of carbon atoms in the hole transporting substance, and a ratio of a number of sp3 carbon atoms is 10% or more based on a total number of carbon atoms in the hole transporting substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9316931
    Abstract: A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product obtained by a polymerization reaction of a hole transporting compound having a first reactive functional group and a compound having a second reactive functional group reactable with the first reactive functional group, and a structure other than the first reactive functional group of the hole transporting compound is a structure having only a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom, or a structure having only a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata, Nobuo Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20160070184
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including: a support; and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product of a compound represented by the following structural formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Masaki Nonaka, Ryoichi Tokimitsu, Haruki Mori
  • Publication number: 20160011529
    Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member which satisfies wear resistance and electrical characteristics, and in which image deletion is satisfactorily suppressed, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface layer which includes a polymerized product of a hole transporting substance having a reactive functional group, in which a structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance is one of: a structure consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom; and a structure consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom, and the structure other than the reactive functional group of the hole transporting substance comprises a specific conjugate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi
  • Publication number: 20150104738
    Abstract: A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a cured product of a composition containing a hole transporting substance having an acryloyloxy group and/or a methacryloyloxy group and a siloxane-modified acrylic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Shinji Takagi, Koichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 8864276
    Abstract: This invention is directed to real time detection of occurrence of a transfer error and feedback of the detection result to a printing apparatus in consideration of a possible risk that a signal transfer error occurs on a transfer path that becomes longer as the printhead is elongated. To accomplish this, in a printhead configured by cascade-connecting a plurality of element substrates, information of a transfer error detected in real time in each element substrate during transfer of a print data signal is output to an element substrate on the next stage by taking account of information input from an element substrate on the preceding stage. Information containing pieces of information from all element substrates is output from an element substrate on the final stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Yamato, Tatsuo Furukawa, Nobuyuki Hirayama, Ryo Kasai, Kimiyuki Hayasaki, Shinji Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140255836
    Abstract: A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymerized product obtained by a polymerization reaction of a hole transporting compound having a first reactive functional group and a compound having a second reactive functional group reactable with the first reactive functional group, and a structure other than the first reactive functional group of the hole transporting compound is a structure having only a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom, or a structure having only a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140255837
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member excellent in suppression of image deletion and electric potential variation. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a hole transporting substance. The hole transporting substance is one of a compound consisting of a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom, or a compound consisting of a carbon atom, a hydrogen atom, and an oxygen atom. The hole transporting substance comprises a conjugate structure containing 24 or more sp2 carbon atoms. The conjugate structure comprises a condensed polycyclic structure comprising 12 or more sp2 carbon atoms. A ratio of a number of sp2 carbon atoms is 55% or more based on a total number of carbon atoms in the hole transporting substance, and a ratio of a number of sp3 carbon atoms is 10% or more based on a total number of carbon atoms in the hole transporting substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Nakata, Shinji Takagi, Nobuo Kosaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8795936
    Abstract: An undercoat layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polymer having a specific repeating structural unit in order to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member that suppresses positive ghost, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiko Sekido, Michiyo Sekiya, Akihiro Maruyama, Shinji Takagi, Hideaki Nagasaka