Canon Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitoshi Kakii

Kenji Ishii

Takeshi Suzuki

Daisuke Yamada

Toshimitsu Nakazawa

Masaaki Takenaka

Mihoko Oda

Mie Takahashi

Kan Ikeda

Takuya Konno

A charging member includes a conductive mandrel, a semiconductive foamed elastic layer provided on the periphery of the mandrel, and a functional double-layer film provided on the periphery of the semiconductive foamed elastic layer. The semiconductive foamed elastic layer is a layer formed by making the mandrel and a semiconductive rubber composition standing uncured and unfoamed pass through a crosshead die of an extruder to set the composition on the periphery of the mandrel, followed by curing and foaming. The semiconductive rubber composition has a Mooney viscosity of from 15 to 30 and has a curing percentage of 40% or less when the foaming pressure reaches 50%. The functional double-layer film is a double-layer tube having a thin layer such that a tube formed out of only the layer is hard to use for covering. Also disclosed are a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus which have such a charging member.

Charging member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus

A belt-shaped intermediate transfer member is provided in an electrophotography apparatus, for transferring a toner image formed on a photosensitive drum to a recording medium such as paper. The intermediate transfer member includes at least a base layer and a surface layer provided upon this base layer. The base layer is formed of elastomer, and the surface layer is formed of engineering plastic such as polyether imide, polyether sulfone, polysulfone, or polyphenyl sulphone which have exceptional dimensional stability.

Intermediate transfer member, electrophotography apparatus using the

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hitoshi Kakii