Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Takahiko Hattori

Hiroyuki Miura

Minoru Rokutan

Taketoshi Hoshizaki

Takuro Hoshio

Hiroshi Takayama

Shogo Tomari

Shoichi Masuda

Noboru Wada

Ryuji Watanabe

Ryusei Kouda

Eiichi Iida

A charging member includes a conductive support, and a conductive elastic layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the conductive support and includes a rubber material and inorganic particles, and in which an average dispersion degree of aggregates of the inorganic particles is 95% or greater and a maximum particle diameter of the aggregates of the inorganic particles is 200 &#x3bc;m or less.

Charging member, charging unit, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing charging member

A charging roll includes a cylindrical base member that has a metal-containing surface, a conductive adhesive layer that includes a halogen atom-containing resin and has surface roughness Rz in a range of 0.5 &#x3bc;m to 8 &#x3bc;m on an outer peripheral surface side on the base member, and a conductive elastic layer that is disposed to be brought into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the conductive adhesive layer and includes a halogen atom-containing rubber.

Charging roll, charging unit, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing charging roll

An electro-conductive roll is provided that makes contact with a body to be charged in a state in which a voltage is applied thereto, and charges the body to be charged, a surface of the electro-conductive roll satisfying the following conditions (a) and (b):

Electro-conductive roll and image-forming apparatus using the same

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takahiko Hattori