Electrophotographic photosensitive member

1. An electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape, the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising:

a support; and

a photosensitive layer, an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member having wrinkles, wherein

when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 μm is placed at any position on the outer surface, and a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are respectively defined as L2 to L3,600,

(i) each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations,

(ii) when a two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) with a frequency component as r and an angle component as θ is obtained by performing frequency analysis of height information of the wrinkles in the observation region, a one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) obtained by integrating the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) in a θ direction has at least one maximum value, and

(iii) when an angular distribution q(θ) is calculated from the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) at a frequency rp at which the one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) has the maximum value, a variation in power values in the entire θ range is 10% or less.

2. The electrophotographic photosensitive member according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency rp is in a range of 0.05 to 1.00 μm −1 .

3. The electrophotographic photosensitive member according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between hm and h ave is 0.5 to 2.0 μm when hm is a value obtained by arbitrarily selecting five points of apexes of the convex portions of the wrinkles in the observation region and averaging heights of the apexes of the convex portions of the wrinkles at the selected five points, and h ave is an average value of heights of the wrinkles in the observation region.

4. A process cartridge integrally supporting an electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a charging unit, a developing unit and a cleaning unit, and being detachably attachable to a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising:

a support; and

a photosensitive layer, an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member having wrinkles, wherein

when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 μm is placed at any position on the outer surface, and a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are respectively defined as L2 to L3,600,

(i) each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations,

(ii) when a two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) with a frequency component as r and an angle component as θ is obtained by performing frequency analysis of height information of the wrinkles in the observation region, a one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) obtained by integrating the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) in a θ direction has at least one maximum value, and

(iii) when an angular distribution q(θ) is calculated from the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) at a frequency rp at which the one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) has the maximum value, a variation in power values in the entire θ range is 10% or less.

5. An electrophotographic apparatus, comprising:

an electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape, a charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit and a transfer unit; and

the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a support and a photosensitive layer, an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member having wrinkles, wherein

when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 μm is placed at any position on the outer surface, and a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are respectively defined as L2 to L3,600,

(i) each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations,

(ii) when a two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) with a frequency component as r and an angle component as θ is obtained by performing frequency analysis of height information of the wrinkles in the observation region, a one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) obtained by integrating the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) in a θ direction has at least one maximum value, and

(iii) when an angular distribution q(θ) is calculated from the two-dimensional power spectrum F(r,θ) at a frequency rp at which the one-dimensional radial direction distribution function p(r) has the maximum value, a variation in power values in the entire θ range is 10% or less.