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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2025
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyo Miyakai, Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Tanaka, Chiba, JP;
Ryunosuke Kawahara, Ibaraki, JP;
Akeshi Asaka, Chiba, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrophotographic member comprising a base layer, an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer, and a surface layer on an outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, wherein the surface layer comprises a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, a plurality of crystals of the tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer having different circle-equivalent diameters is exposed on an outer surface of the surface layer, at least a part of an outer surface of the electrophotographic member is composed of a surface of the crystals and is roughened by the crystals, when an arithmetic-mean height Sa of each observation region in a specific region of the outer surface is determined, the electrophotographic member satisfies a specific relationship in a frequency distribution of the observation regions in which the arithmetic-mean height Sa is taken as a class and a class width is 0.05 μm.