Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Satoshi Mizoguchi

Hirofumi Iida

Koichi Matsumoto

Hiroki Ando

Fuyuki Kano

Hiroki Oka

Keishi Araki

Shigemi Ohtsu

Masahiro Iwasaki

Masaki Hirakata

Tomotake Inagaki

Keisuke Kusano

Jiro Korenaga

Kosuke Narita

Hideya Katsuhara

Takeshi Kawai

Kenji Omori

Yoichi Kigoshi

Fumio Daishi

Tomoo Matsushima

Kanji Shintaku

Michinori Fukuma

Yuki Yonetoku

Shuhei Yamazaki

An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, a charge generation layer provided on the undercoat layer, a charge transport layer provided on the charge generation layer, and a surface organic protective layer provided on the charge transport layer, in which the charge transport layer has a Young's modulus of 5,500 MPa or greater.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate, and a photoconductive layer, in which an outermost surface layer contains a binder resin, a charge transporting material, fluorine-containing resin particles, and an acidic compound, the number of carboxyl groups in the fluorine-containing resin particles is 0 or more and 30 or less per 10carbon atoms of the fluorine-containing resin particles, and in a case where charging and exposure of the electrophotographic photoconductor are repeated 10,000 times under conditions of a charging potential of −700 V and an exposure intensity of 5 mJ/m, an absolute value |RP−RP| of a difference between a residual potential RPafter charging and exposure once and a residual potential RPafter charging and exposure 10,000 times is 25 V or less.

Electrophotographic photoconductor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A charging device includes a first charging unit that charges a target unit, which is to be charged, by coming into contact with the target unit and a second charging unit that charges the target unit by coming into contact with the target unit and in which distribution of a contact region in contact with the target unit is different from distribution of a contact region in the first charging unit.

Charging device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an image to be transferred onto a recording medium, a charging member in contact with the image carrier, the charging member that charges the image carrier, an erase unit that erases charge on the image carrier, a current detector that detects a current flowing to the charging member; a forming unit that forms a charged region on a surface of the image carrier, and forms an erased region on the surface of the image carrier using the erase unit, and a state acquisition unit that acquires a deterioration state of the charging member based on (i) a first current flowing in response to applying a voltage from the charging member to the erased region and (ii) a second current flowing in response to applying a voltage from the charging member to the charged region.

Image forming apparatus

A charging device includes: a charging member that is rotatable and has a peripheral surface to be in contact with a charging target and to which a voltage is to be applied for charging the charging target; a removing member that includes a core and a removing material spirally wound one to less than two times around the core and rotates and comes into contact with the charging member to remove an unnecessary material from the peripheral surface of the charging member; and a detecting unit that detects a current flowing between the charging member and the removing member.

Charging device, image forming structure, and image forming device

A cleaning member includes a core and first and second foamed elastic layers wound around an outer peripheral surface of the core in a double-helical pattern. The compressive stress F1 of the first foamed elastic layer is greater than the compressive stress F2 of the second foamed elastic layer. The cleaning member cleans a member to be cleaned with the first and second foamed elastic layers in contact with a surface of the member to be cleaned.

Cleaning member and image forming apparatus

A charging device includes a charging member that charges a member to be charged and a cleaning member that is disposed in contact with a surface of the charging member and that cleans the surface of the charging member. The cleaning member includes a core and two foamed elastic layers disposed adjacent to each other in an axial direction around an outer peripheral surface of the core from one end to another end of the core in a substantially double-helical pattern. The two foamed elastic layers are a first foamed elastic layer having an average skeleton size D1 smaller than an average spacing Sm between irregularities in the surface of the charging member and a second foamed elastic layer having an average skeleton size D2 larger than or equal to the average spacing Sm between the irregularities in the surface of the charging member.

Charging device, unit for image-forming apparatus, process cartridge, and image-forming apparatus

A tubular body for an image forming apparatus is formed by subjecting a tubular member containing a thermoplastic resin to thermal processing. The thermal processing is performed so that at least one edge of the tubular member is thermally melted and then cured in at least a portion of the edge in a peripheral direction.

Tubular body, tubular body unit, and intermediate transfer body for image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing tubular body

A sliding member for a fixing device includes a base body and a sliding sheet that is disposed on the surface of the base body and is made of cross-linked polytetrafluoroethylene provided with through holes passing therethrough in a thickness direction.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Mizoguchi