Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro NIIDA

Yasuhiro NIIDA 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: 9811010
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive base and a single-layer-type photosensitive layer on the conductive base. The photosensitive layer contains a binder resin, a charge generation material, a hole transport material, a fluorine-atom-containing electron transport material, and fluorine-atom-containing resin particles. An amount of the charge generation material in the photosensitive layer is 0.5% by weight or more and less than 2.0% by weight. The charge generation material has a distribution that satisfies Formula (1): 30?a/b in a thickness direction of the photosensitive layer where a and b are as defined in the specification, and b may be 0. The fluorine-atom-containing electron transport material has a distribution that satisfies Formula (2): 30?c/d in the thickness direction of the photosensitive layer where c and d are as defined in the specification, and d may be 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Niida, Kazuyuki Tada, Jiro Korenaga, Yukimi Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20170052464
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive base and a single-layer-type photosensitive layer on the conductive base. The photosensitive layer contains a binder resin, a charge generation material, a hole transport material, a fluorine-atom-containing electron transport material, and fluorine-atom-containing resin particles. An amount of the charge generation material in the photosensitive layer is 0.5% by weight or more and less than 2.0% by weight. The charge generation material has a distribution that satisfies Formula (1): 30?a/b in a thickness direction of the photosensitive layer where a and b are as defined in the specification, and b may be 0. The fluorine-atom-containing electron transport material has a distribution that satisfies Formula (2): 30?c/d in the thickness direction of the photosensitive layer where c and d are as defined in the specification, and d may be 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NIIDA, Kazuyuki TADA, Jiro KORENAGA, Yukimi KAWABATA
  • Patent number: 9551945
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a single-layer type photosensitive layer that contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, a hole transporting material, and an electron transporting material, wherein a content of the charge generating material in the photosensitive layer is 0.5% by weight or more and less than 2.0% by weight and the charge generating material satisfies expression (1): 30?a/b, wherein a represents the number of the charge generating materials per unit cross-sectional area in a region ranging from the surface side of the film thickness of the photosensitive layer to a point corresponding to ?, and b represents the number of the charge generating materials per unit cross-sectional area in a region ranging from the conductive substrate side of the film thickness of the photosensitive layer to a position corresponding to ?, provided that a case where b is 0 is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukimi Kawabata, Kazuyuki Tada, Jiro Korenaga, Yasuhiro Niida
  • Publication number: 20160246190
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and a single-layer type photosensitive layer that contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, a hole transporting material, and an electron transporting material, wherein a content of the charge generating material in the photosensitive layer is 0.5% by weight or more and less than 2.0% by weight and the charge generating material satisfies expression (1): 30?a/b, wherein a represents the number of the charge generating materials per unit cross-sectional area in a region ranging from the surface side of the film thickness of the photosensitive layer to a point corresponding to ?, and b represents the number of the charge generating materials per unit cross-sectional area in a region ranging from the conductive substrate side of the film thickness of the photosensitive layer to a position corresponding to ?, provided that a case where b is 0 is included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukimi KAWABATA, Kazuyuki TADA, Jiro KORENAGA, Yasuhiro NIIDA
  • Patent number: 9280079
    Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive base material and a conductive outermost layer provided on the conductive base material, wherein the conductive outermost layer has a ten-point average surface roughness Rz of 2 ?m to 20 ?m and contains a resin and particles in which particles having a particle diameter of 5.0 ?m or more and a circularity of 0.8 or less are 30% by number or less with respect to the total number of particles having a particle diameter of 5.0 ?m or more and particles having a particle diameter of less than 5.0 ?m and a circularity of 0.8 or less are from 20% by number to 80% by number with respect to the total number of particles having a particle diameter of less than 5.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro Hoshio, Taketoshi Hoshizaki, Hiroyuki Miura, Kosuke Narita, Jiro Korenaga, Yasuhiro Niida, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Yasuhiko Kinuta
  • Publication number: 20090238602
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on a surface of the conductive substrate, an outermost layer of the photosensitive layer containing a crosslinked product formed from at least one charge transporting material having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of —OH, —OCH3, —NH2, —SH, and —COOH and at least one selected from a guanamine compound or a melamine compound, the content of the at least one charge transporting material being at least about 90% by weight, and the content of the at least one selected from the guanamine compound or the melamine compound being from about 0.1% by weight to about 5% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro IWASAKI, Katsumi NUKADA, Wataru YAMADA, Kenta IDE, Hirofumi NAKAMURA, Mitsuhide NAKAMURA, Koji BANDO, Kaori IEMULA, Kazuya HONGO, Yasuhiro NIIDA