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Electrochromic rearview mirror incorporating a third surface metal reflector

An electrochromic variable reflectance mirror for a vehicle includes a reflector/electrode on the third surface of the mirror. This reflector/electrode forms an integral electrode in contact with the electrochromic media, and may be a single layer of a highly reflective material or may comprise a series of coatings. When a series of coatings is used for the reflector/electrode, there should be a base coating which bonds to the glass surface and resists any adverse interaction, e.g., corrosive action, with the constituents comprising the electrochromic media, an optional intermediate layer (or layers) which bonds well to the base coating and resists any adverse interaction with the electrochromic media, and at least one highly reflective layer which directly contacts the electrochromic media and which is chosen primarily for its high reflectance, stable behavior as an electrode, resistance to adverse interaction with the materials of the electrochromic media, resistance to atmospheric corrosion, resistance to electrical contact corrosion, the ability to adhere to the base or intermediate layer(s) (if present) and to the epoxy seal, and ease of cleaning. If a base layer is deposited it preferably covers the entire third surface; however, when this is done the highly reflective layer may optionally only coat the central portion of the third surface and not the perimeter edge portion. The third surface reflector/electrode provides of improved electrical interconnection techniques used to impart a voltage drive potential to a transparent conductor on the mirror's second surface.
Owner:GENTEX CORP

Electrophotographic image forming method and apparatus

An electrophotographic image forming method having cyclic steps including a charging step of charging a rotating image-bearing member to charge a surface thereof, a latent image forming steps of forming an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the image-bearing member, a developing step of developing the electrostatic latent image with a magnetic toner to form a toner image thereon, and a transfer step of transferring the toner image onto a recording material. In the method, the image-bearing member includes an electroconductive support, and a photoconductor layer and a surface layer formed on the support. The photoconductor layer includes a silicon-based non-single crystal material containing at least one of hydrogen and halogen, and the surface layer includes a carbon-based non-single crystal material containing at least one of hydrogen and halogen and also containing silicon in a proportion of 0.2 to 20 atm. % as calculated by Si/(Si+C). The magnetic toner includes toner particles comprising at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine powder, has an average circularity of at least 0.950 and has a saturation magnetization of 10 to 50 Am2/kg as measured at 79.6 kA/m. In the charging step, the image-bearing member is charged to a negative polarity by a contact charging means including charging particles comprising principally electroconductive particles having particle sizes of 0.1-10 mum, and a charging particle carrying member having an electroconductive and elastic surface and carrying the charging particles on the surface so as to contact the image-bearing member via the charging particles. In the latent image forming step, an image forming part of the surface of the image-bearing member is exposed to light to provide an attenuated potential thereat, thereby forming the electrostatic latent image. In the method, no cleaning step is included between the transfer step and the charging step.
Owner:CANON KK
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