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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1996
Harumi Ishiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Tadashi Furuya, Kawasaki, JP;
Takeo Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasunori Chigono, Yokohama, JP;
Seiji Mashimo, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A charging device includes a charging member for charging a movable member to be charged; the charging member including a carrying member for carrying a magnetic particle layer contactable to the member to be charged, the carrying member being adapted to be supplied with a voltage; wherein a direction of a magnetic force acting on magnetic particles in the magnetic particle layer at a downstream end position with respect to a movement direction of the member to be charged at a portion where the member to be charged and the magnetic particle layer are contacted, is opposite from the member to be charged with respect to a tangent line of the member to be charged at the end position.