US 7,457,565 B2
Image forming apparatus
Ichiroh Fujii, Gose (Japan); Takatsugu Obata, Nara (Japan); and Mikio Kakui, Nara (Japan)
Assigned to Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 27, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/51,640.
Claims priority of application No. P2004-022033 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0232657 A1, Oct. 20, 2005
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 399—159  [430/58.85; 430/72] 6 Claims
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an electrophotographic photoconductor having a conductive support and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive support and containing a charge generation substance and a charge transportation substance;
charging means for charging the electrophotographic photoconductor;
exposure means for forming electrostatic latent images by applying exposure corresponding to image information to the charged electrophotographic photoconductor;
developing means containing toners, for developing the electrostatic latent images by supplying toners to the surface of the electrophotographic photoconductor thereby forming toner images; and
transfer means for transferring the toner images from the surface of the electrophotographic photoconductor to a recording medium, wherein,
the charge transportation substance contained in the photosensitive layer of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains
an enamine compound represented by the following general formula (2), and
a volume average particle diameter of the toners contained in the developing means is in a range from 4 μm to 7 μm

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
wherein b, c and d each represent an optionally-substituted alkyl group, an optionally-substituted alkoxy group, an optionally-substituted dialkylamino group, an optionally-substituted aryl group, a halogen atom, or a hydrogen atom; i, k and j each indicate an integer of from 1 to 5; when i is 2 or more, then the “b”s may be the same or different and may bond to each other to form a cyclic structure; when k is 2 or more, then the “c”s may be the same or different and may bond to each other to form a cyclic structure; and when j is 2 or more, then the “d”s may be the same or different and may bond to each other to form a cyclic structure;
Ar4 and Ar5 each represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally-substituted aryl group, an optionally-substituted heterocyclic group, an optionally-substituted aralkyl group, or an optionally-substituted alkyl group, but it is excluded that Ar4 and Ar5 are hydrogen atoms at the same time; Ar4 and Ar5 may bond to each other via an atom or an atomic group to form a cyclic structure; “a” represents an optionally-substituted alkyl group, an optionally-substituted alkoxy group, an optionally-substituted dialkylamino group, an optionally-substituted aryl group, a halogen atom, or a hydrogen atom; m indicates an integer of from 1 to 6; when m is 2 or more, then the “a”s may be the same or different and may bond to each other to form a cyclic structure.