Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Yuki Tagawa

Yasuhiko Kinuta

Takuya Yamamoto

Masato Ono

Minoru Rokutan

Masayuki Seko

Shogo Tomari

Yuma Tanaka

Fuyuki Kano

Noboru Hirakawa

Ken Ozaki

Kosuke Narita

Yukimi Kawabata

Akihiro Nonaka

Kenta Yamakoshi

Hiroko Kobayashi

Ryo Sekiguchi

Yoshiyuki Hayashi

A charging system includes a charging member that rotates while following a rotating image holding body and that charges the image holding body, a removing member that rotates while following the rotating charging member in a state of being arranged at a contact position in contact with the charging member and that removes an adhered deposit adhered to the charging member, a moving member that moves the removing member to a separation position separated from the charging member and the contact position, and at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to cause the removing member to remove the adhered deposit adhered to the charging member only for a removal time by controlling the moving member to move the removing member arranged at the separation position to the contact position at a time determined in advance.

Charging system and image forming system

A charging device includes: a charging member that rotates in contact with a charged body and charges the charged body; and a cleaning member that comes into contact with the charging member and rotates in conjunction with the charging member, in which the cleaning member includes a foam elastic layer in which a band-shaped foam elastic member is spirally disposed with a pitch, and a diameter of a tip end portion of a cell skeleton protruding to a surface of the foam elastic layer is 50 μm or less, and a peripheral speed ratio of the cleaning member to the charging member is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less.

Charging device, cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A roll member includes: a conductive elastic layer that contains a fatty acid metal salt; and a surface layer that is provided on the conductive elastic layer and contains a filler, in which the surface layer includes a first layer provided on the conductive elastic layer side and a second layer provided immediately above the first layer, and a content of the filler in the first layer is less than a content of the filler in the second layer.

Roll member, charging member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A charging member includes a conductive base material; an elastic layer that is provided on the conductive base material and has a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz; and a surface layer that is provided on the elastic layer, in which in a Cole-Cole plot obtained by measuring the charging member in a range of 1 MHz to 0.1 Hz by an alternating current impedance method, a resistance component Ra of a capacitive semicircle including 2.5 kHz is 6.3&#xd7;104&#x3a9; or less.

Charging member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A roll member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a surface layer provided on the conductive elastic layer. The surface layer contains a crosslinked product of crosslinkable nylon, the crosslinking degree of the surface layer specified by formula (1) below is 0.3 or more and 0.7 or less, and the thermal degradation index of the surface layer specified by formula (2) below is 2.1 or more and 2.3 or less.Crosslinking degree=absorbance at 1078 cm&#xf7;absorbance at 2935 cm&#x2003;&#x2003;Formula (1):Thermal degradation index=absorbance at 1638 cm&#xf7;absorbance at 1543 cm&#x2003;&#x2003; Formula (2):

An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a friction coefficient of a surface of 0.8 or less; a charging device including a charging member that is in contact with and charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and includes a conductive base material, an elastic layer provided on the conductive base material and having a storage elastic modulus G of 5.0 MPa or less at 100 Hz, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer; an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to form a toner image by a developer containing a toner; and a transfer device that transfers the toner image to a surface of a recording medium.

Image forming apparatus and process cartridge

A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an image holding member according to a contact charging method, and includes a conductive substrate and a surface layer provided on the conductive substrate; and a clean member that cleans the charging member while contacting the charging member, and includes a shaft and a foamed elastic layer provided on the shaft, wherein a ratio of a distance between irregularities in an axial direction of the surface layer in the charging member (Sm) to a width of a nodal section of a foam cell wall surface protruding from a surface of the foamed elastic layer in the clean member (W) satisfies 2.4&#x2264;Sm/W&#x2264;5.9.

Charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A charging member includes: a cylindrical or columnar conductive base material; and an elastic portion provided on the conductive base material, in which Re and Rc satisfy Re&#x3e;Rc, where Re is an outer diameter of a charging member at a position of 5 mm from an axial end portion of an elastic portion, and Rc is the maximum value of an outer diameter of the charging member at an axial center of the elastic portion, and a cylindrical or columnar charging member has a value of Ac/Aa of 1.0 or less, in which Ac is the maximum amplitude value in a periodic region from 1.5 mm to 6 mm in a case of periodically analyzing a surface shape of the charging member in a circumferential direction, and Aa is the maximum amplitude value in a periodic region from 1.5 mm to 6 mm in a case of periodically analyzing a surface shape of the charging member in an axial direction.

A conductive member includes a conductive substrate; and a conductive elastic layer disposed on the conductive substrate and exhibiting ionic conduction. The conductive elastic layer contains an elastic material, which contains epichlorohydrin rubber, and an anti-aging agent, and the amount of free chlorine ions in the conductive elastic layer is 1 &#x3bc;g/g or more and 80 &#x3bc;g/g or less.

Conductive member, changing device, transfer device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A charging member includes a cylindrical, hollow or solid, electroconductive base member, and an elastic layer device disposed on the electroconductive base member. When a surface profile of the charging member is subjected to a periodicity analysis in a circumferential direction, the surface profile has a maximum amplitude, in a period region of smaller than 5 mm, within a range of higher than or equal to 0.20 &#x3bc;m and smaller than or equal to 0.90 &#x3bc;m.

Charging member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A conductive member includes a conductive substrate; and a conductive elastic layer disposed on the conductive substrate and exhibiting ionic conduction. The conductive elastic layer contains an elastic material, which contains epichlorohydrin rubber, and a layered inorganic compound, and the amount of free chlorine ions in the conductive elastic layer is 1 &#x3bc;g/g or more and 80 &#x3bc;g/g or less.

Conductive member, charging device, transfer device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A conductive member includes a conductive substrate; and a conductive elastic layer disposed on the conductive substrate and exhibiting ionic conduction. The conductive elastic layer contains an elastic material containing epichlorohydrin rubber, and the amount of free chlorine ions in the conductive elastic layer is 1 &#x3bc;g/g or more and 80 &#x3bc;g/g or less.

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