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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
Yuki Nagamori, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Otsuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kuniaki Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Arichika Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuki Nagamori, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Otsuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kuniaki Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Arichika Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A charging device includes a discharge electrode that extends along an axial direction of a member to be charged; and a potential control plate disposed between the member to be charged and the discharge electrode and curved along a peripheral surface of the member to be charged. The potential control plate includes three or more structural lines that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the member to be charged and that linearly extend along the axial direction, and connecting portions arranged in the axial direction, each connecting portion connecting two or more of the three or more structural lines to each other, the two or more structural lines being next to each other in the circumferential direction. The structural lines connected by one of the connecting portions and those connected by another one of the connecting portions are at least partly different from each other.