Photoconductive imaging members with polyphosphazenes

Claim 2

A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking-adhesive layer comprised of polyorganophosphazene, a photogenerating layer, and a hole transport layer.

Claim 3

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the polyorganophosphazenes, are of the following formulas ##STR3## wherein R is independently selected from alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, and substituted aryl; and n represents the number of repeating segments.

Claim 4

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the polyorganophosphazenes are selected from the group consisting of poly[bis(p-tolylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(2-naphthoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(dialkylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(diarylamino)]phosphazenes, poly[bis(dimethylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(diethylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(dipropylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(dibutylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(p-ditolylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(carbazolyl)]phosphazene, poly[bis(dialkyl)]phosphazene, poly[bis(diaryl)]phosphazene, poly(dimethyl)phosphazene, poly(diethyl)phosphazene, poly(dibenzyl)phosphazene, poly(ditolyl)phosphazene, poly(dixylyl)phosphazene, poly[bis(alkoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(aryloxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(methoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(ethoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(propyloxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(trifluoroethoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(2-naphthoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(2-tolyloxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(phenoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(p-bromophenoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(p-chlorophenoxy)]phosphazene, poly[bis(arylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(alkylamino]phosphazene, poly[bis(methylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(ethylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(p-tolylamino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(p-anilino)]phosphazene, poly[bis(2-naphthylamino)]phosphazene, and poly[bis(p-xylylamino)]phosphazene.

Claim 5

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the ground plane is a conductive polymer, an organic component, a metal, or a metal salt.

Claim 6

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 4 wherein the ground plane is titanium, aluminum, indium/tin oxide, zirconium/titanium, nickel, or mixtures thereof.

Claim 7

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 4 wherein the conductive ground plane is carbon black, or a conductive polymer.

Claim 8

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 6 wherein the conductive polymer ground plane is polypyrrole.

Claim 9

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the supporting substrate is comprised of an insulating polymer containing on its surface a conductive polymer or a metal oxide, a conductive polymer, or a metal oxide.

Claim 10

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the hole transport layer is an aryl amine.

Claim 11

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the hole transport layer is the aryl amine of the formula ##STR4## wherein X is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl and halogen.

Claim 12

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 2 wherein the hole transport layer is the aryl amine N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3-methylphenyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine.

Claim 13

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the hole transport layer is comprised of the N,N-bis(biarylyl)aniline polymers of the formula ##STR5## wherein A and B are independently selected from bifunctional linkages; Z is alkylenedioxy, arylenedioxy, or substituted derivatives thereof; R and R' are alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, or halogen; x and y are mole fractions wherein x is greater than 0 and the sum of x is equal to 1.0; a and b are the numbers 0, 1 or 2; and n represents the number of monomer units.

Claim 14

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the hole transport molecules are dispersed in an inactive resin binder.

Claim 15

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the photogenerating layer is comprised of inorganic or organic photoconductive pigments.

Claim 16

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 14 wherein the photogenerating layer is comprised of selenium, selenium alloys, trigonal selenium, vanadyl phthalocyanine, squaraines, perylene, metal free phthalocyanines, metal phthalocyanines, or dibromoanthanthrone photoconductive pigments.

Claim 17

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 15 wherein the photogenerating pigments are dispersed in a resin binder.

Claim 18

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the photogenerating layer is situated between the supporting substrate and the hole transport layer.

Claim 19

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the hole transport layer is situated between the photogenerating layer and the supporting substrate.

Claim 20

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 18 wherein the supporting substrate is comprised of an insulating polymer with a conductive polymer, a metal oxide, or mixtures thereof on the surface.

Claim 21

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein the photogenerating pigments are dispersed in a resinous binder in an amount of from about 5 percent by weight to about 95 percent by weight.

Claim 22

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 20 wherein the resinous binder is a polyester, polyvinyl butyral, a polycarbonate, or polyvinyl formal.

Claim 23

A seamless photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking-adhesive layer comprised of polyorganophosphazenes, a photogenerating layer, and a hole transport layer.

Claim 24

A seamless photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking-adhesive layer comprised of polyorganophosphazenes, a photogenerating layer, and a hole transport layer.

Claim 25

A method of imaging which comprises generating an electrostatic image on the imaging member of claim 1; developing the image; subsequently transferring this image to a suitable substrate; and thereafter permanently affixing the image thereto.

Claim 26

A method of imaging which comprises generating an electrostatic image on the imaging member of claim 2; developing the image; subsequently transferring this image to a suitable substrate; and thereafter permanently affixing the image thereto.

Claim 27

A method of imaging which comprises generating an electrostatic image on the imaging member of claim 22; developing the image; subsequently transferring this image to a suitable substrate; and thereafter permanently affixing the image thereto.

Claim 28

A photoconductive imaging member in accordance with claim 1 wherein a polyphosphazene is selected as a resin binder for the hole transport layer.

Claim 29

An imaging member in accordance with claim 2 wherein n is a number of from 1 to about 100.

Claim 30

A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a ground plane layer, a hole blocking-adhesive layer comprised of a polyorganophosphazene, a photogenerating layer, and a hole transport layer.

Claim 31

A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a ground plane layer, a hole blocking-adhesive layer comprised of a polyorganophosphazene, a photogenerating layer, and a hole transport layer.

Claim 32

A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, in contact therewith a ground plane layer; a hole blocking-adhesive layer in contact with a ground plane layer, and comprised of polyorganophosphazenes; a photogenerating layer in contact with the hole blocking-adhesive layer; and a hole transport layer in contact with the photogenerating layer.

Claim 33

A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, in contact therewith a ground plane layer; a hole blocking-adhesive layer in contact with a ground plane layer, and comprised of polyorganophosphazenes; a photogenerating layer in contact with the hole blocking-adhesive layer; and a hole transport layer in contact with the photogenerating layer.

Claim 34

A layered photoconductive imaging member comprised in the order stated of a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking adhesive layer comprised of a polyorganophosphazene, a photogenerating layer and a hole transport layer.

Claim 35

A layered photoconductive imaging member comprised in the order stated of a supporting substrate, a ground plane layer, a hole blocking adhesive layer comprised of a polyorganophosphazene, a photogenerating layer and a hole transport layer.

Claim 36

An imaging member in accordance with claim 30 wherein the polyphosphazene is of the following formula: ##STR6## wherein R is independently selected from alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, and substituted aryl; and represents the number of repeating segments.

Claim 37

An imaging member in accordance with claim 30 wherein the photogenerating layer is comprised of inorganic or organic photoconductive pigments.

Claim 38

An imaging member in accordance with claim 30 wherein the polyphosphazene functions as a hole blocking-adhesive component.