Image forming apparatus and electrophotographic photosensitive member

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PATENT NO 9772596
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14716827

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In an image forming apparatus in which an electrostatic image is formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member using at least a process of a pseudo halftone formed by dots as a method of representing gradation, the electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided on a surface thereof with a plurality of recessed portions of 0.5 μm more and 5 μm or less in depth and 20 μm or more and 80 μm or less in longest diameter of an opening, when a square region of 500 μm×500 μm is arbitrarily extracted on the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member, in the square region, a total area of the recessed portions is 10000 μm2 or more and 90000 μm2 or less and a total area of a flat portion contained in a portion other than the recessed portion is 80000 μm2 or more and 240000 μm2 or less, and an arrangement (A) of the plurality of recessed portions is such an arrangement that an image quality lowering index (f) calculated by specific processing is 14% or less.

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CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA30-2 SHIMOMARUKO 3-CHOME OHTA-KU TOKYO 1468501 ?1468501

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Itagaki, Tomohisa Abiko, JP 64 538
Kawai, Yasuhiro Abiko, JP 91 790
Mitsui, Takahiro Kawasaki, JP 20 312
Nishida, Tsutomu Mishima, JP 88 905
Ogawa, Hideki Moriya, JP 134 2063
Takahashi, Koji Kashiwa, JP 628 8760
Uematsu, Hiroki Mishima, JP 35 968

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