Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha

Noriko Yoshida

Izumi Osawa

Shuji Iino

Akihito Ikegawa

Masaki Asano

Kenzo Tanaka

An image forming apparatus provided with a contact charging device, in which an electrically conductive member contacts a surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier for charging the surface, wherein at least impurity atom selected from the group consisting of elements of Group IA, II, VI and VII of the periodic table is adhered to the electrically conductive member, and a total content of the impurity atom is in a range from 0.05 wt % to 0.45 wt% with respect to all atoms including the impurity atom and atoms forming the electrically conductive member.

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Itami, Japan

Noriko Yoshida