Patent ID: 8574797

Claim:
An electrophotographic photoconductor comprising: an electrically conductive base; an undercoat layer disposed on the base that contains a metal oxide and an electron-accepting material and has a thickness of from about 3 μm to about 15 μm; and a photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer containing a polymer consisting of a repeating unit represented by general formula (1) where R 1 and R 2 each independently represent a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 7 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms; and m and n each independently represent an integer of 0 to 4, wherein the polymer has a viscosity-average molecular weight of from about 50000 to about 70000.