Patent ID: 7338738

Claim:
An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a support, at least the surface of which is conductive, and a photoconductive layer formed thereon containing an amorphous material composed chiefly of silicon, wherein; said photoconductive layer has two or more layer regions, and protuberances in a layer region (A) adjoining to a layer region (B) that is closest to a free surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member have been stopped from growing at the surface of the layer region (A), and said layer regions each have a layer thickness of from 3 μm to 15 μm, wherein, at the surface of a layer region of said photoconductive layer, protuberances of 15 μm or more each in major axis are in a number of 5 or less per 100 cm 2 .