CHARGING MEMBER, CHARGING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• US 20150125183A1
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: ROKUTAN, Minoru, NUKADA, Hidemi, SUGIURA, Satoya, NONAKA, Akihiro, HAGIWARA, Takuro, OSHIMA, Minoru
• Granted Patent: US 9,098,007 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 399/176
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0233 Structure, details of the charging member, e.g. chemical composition, surface properties
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24405 Polymer or resin [e.g., natural or synthetic rubber, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249992 Linear or thermoplastic

Abstract

A charging member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a conductive surface layer that is disposed on the conductive elastic layer, is in contact with an image holding member, and contains a resin, porous resin particles, and silicone oil, wherein a content of the porous resin particles is from 3 parts by weight to 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin, and a content of the silicone oil is from 0.1 part by weight to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.

Claims

1. A charging member comprising:

a conductive elastic layer; and

a conductive surface layer that is disposed on the conductive elastic layer, is in contact with an image holding member, and contains a resin, porous resin particles, and silicone oil,

wherein a content of the porous resin particles is from 3 parts by weight to 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin, and a content of the silicone oil is from 0.1 part by weight to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.

2. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein the silicone oil is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of polyether-modified silicone oil and polyester-modified silicone oil.

3. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein the conductive surface layer has a thickness of from 3 m to 15 μ

m.

4. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein the conductive surface layer has a surface free energy of from 50 mN/m to 90 mN/m.

5. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein the conductive surface layer has a surface free energy of from 55 mN/m to 90 mN/m.

6. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein the conductive surface layer has a ten-point average roughness Rz of from 2 m to 10 m.

7. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein a content of the silicone oil is from 0.3 part by weight to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.

8. The charging member according to claim 1,

wherein a content of the silicone oil is from 0.5 part by weight to 3 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.

9. A charging device comprising the charging member according to claim 1.

10. A process cartridge detachable from an image forming apparatus, comprising:

an image holding member; and

the charging device according to claim 9 that charges the image holding member.

11. An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image holding member;

a charging device according to claim 9 that charges the image holding member;

a latent image forming device that forms a latent image on the surface of a charged image holding member;

a developing device that develops the latent image formed on the surface of the image holding member with a toner to form a toner image; and

a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member to a recording medium.