Patent ID: 8404414

Claim:
An electrophotographic photoconductor, comprising: a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate and comprised of a charge generation material; a charge transport material; and a resin hinder comprising, a copolymer polyarylate resin represented by general formula (I) below where partial structural formulas (A), (B) and (C) represent structural units that make up the resin binder; l, m and n represent respective mol % of the structural units (A), (B) and (C) such that l+m+n is 100 mol %, m is 50 to 65 mol % and n is 1 to 10 mol %; R 1 and R 2 may be identical or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C8 alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group, or may form a cyclic structure together with a carbon atom to which these are bonded, and the cyclic structure may have bonded thereto 1 or 2 arylene groups; R 3 to R 18 may be identical or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1 to C8 alkyl group, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom or a bromine atom; and A represents a C4 to C10 divalent alkylene group.