Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masami Okunuki

Naoto Fujimura

Hisami Tanaka

Hiroyuki Ohmori

Kiyoshi Sakai

Teigo Sakakibara

Akio Maruyama

Noboru Kashimura

Junichi Kishi

Masafumi Hisamura

An image forming apparatus has a photosensitive member, a charging device, an image exposure device for exposing the photosensitive member to form a latent image, a developing device for developing the latent image with a toner to form a transferable toner image on the surface of the photosensitive member, a transfer device for transferring the toner image to a transfer material, and a cleaning device for removing a residual toner; the charging device, image exposure device, developing device, transfer device and cleaning device being disposed in the named order along the moving direction of the photosensitive member. The charging device includes an electroconductive member which directly contacts the photosensitive member surface to charge the photosensitive member surface. The electroconductive member forms a nip width with the photosensitive member of at least 0.5 mm and a load per unit contact area between the electroconductive member and photosensitive member is between 0.5-30 g/mm.sup.2. With respect to the longitudinal direction of the photosensitive member, the width of the photosensitive member surface cleaned by the cleaning device is equal to or greater than the width of the photosensitive member surface contacting the electroconductive member.

Electrophotographic apparatus having cleaning width larger than charging

A member for charging comprises a surface layer formed of a N-alkoxymethylated nylon. A contact charging method performs charging of a member to be charged arranged in contact with the member for charging by applying externally a voltage on the member for charging. An electrophotographic device comprises the member for charging and an electrophotographic photosensitive member arranged in contact with the member for charging.

Member for charging with surface layer of N-alkoxymethylated nylon

There is provided a charging member comprising an electroconductive substrate, and an elastic layer, an electroconductive layer and a resistance layer disposed in this order on the substrate. Such charging member provides good contact with a photosensitive member, to provide good image quality without causing an image defect such as white spot based on charging unevenness. Further, the charging member causes no leak even when the photosensitive member has a pin hole, and reduced the level of noise based on an AC voltage to be applied thereto.

Charging member

An electrophotographic apparatus including a photosensitive member and a charging member disposed in contact with the photosensitive member; the photosensitive member being capable of being charged by applying a voltage to the charging member; wherein the ten-point mean surface roughness (Rz.sub.1) of the photosensitive member and the ten-point means surface roughness (Rz.sub.2) of the charging member satisfy the following relationships:

Electrophotographic apparatus

An electrophotographic apparatus comprises at least a charging means, an imagewise exposure means with a laser beam having a spot diameter of 100 um or less, a developing means, a transferring means and a cleaning means arranged around an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and said electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a charge generation material and a charge transport material comprising an organic photoconductive material and has a surface layer containing said charge transport material, wherein the absorption end of visible to UV spectroscopic absorption of the surface layer is substantially unchanged by exposure to nitric acid vapor for 10 minutes; an electrophotographic image forming process; and an electrophotographic photosensitive member.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, electrophotographic apparatus

An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising an organic photoconductive material has a structure that a charge transport layer containing a charge transporting material and a binder and a charge generation layer containing a charge generating material and a binder are laminated in succession in this order on a conductive substrate. The weight ratio of said charge transporting material to said binder in said charge transport layer is not less than 12/10 and said charge generation layer contains a charge transporting material.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member and electrophotographic

An electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a conductive substrate, a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer, wherein said charge generation layer is superposed on said charge transport layer, and said charge generation layer contains particles of a fluorine-containing resin. And, an image forming process comprising the repetition of an electrophotographic process uses said electrophotographic photosensitive member.

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Masami Okunuki