(19)
(11) EP 0 616 260 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
10.01.1996 Bulletin 1996/02

(43) Date of publication A2:
21.09.1994 Bulletin 1994/38

(21) Application number: 94103893.7

(22) Date of filing: 14.03.1994
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: G03G 5/082
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT NL

(30) Priority: 15.03.1993 JP 78636/93

(71) Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventor:
  • Takei, Tetsuya, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146 (JP)

(74) Representative: Tiedtke, Harro, Dipl.-Ing. 
Patentanwaltsbüro Tiedtke-Bühling-Kinne & Partner Bavariaring 4
80336 München
80336 München (DE)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Electrophotographic light-receiving member


    (57) To provide an electrophotographic light-receiving member having a good initial-stage electrophotographic performance and also having a good durability especially in an environment of low humidity, the light-receiving member comprises a support 101, a photoconductive layer 103 formed on the support and formed of a non-monocrystalline material mainly composed of silicon atoms, and a surface layer 104 formed of a non-monocrystalline material constituted of silicon atoms, carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms and hydrogen atoms in which silicon atoms having at least one bond to a carbon atom are in a percentage of at least 50 atom% based on the whole silicon atoms in the surface layer.






    Search report