Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and cartridge having a charging roller with a surface layer including projections
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Application No.: US16006072Application Date: 2018-06-12
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Publication No.: US10551763B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Michihiro Yoshida , Takeshi Fujino , Kota Mori , Yuya Nagatomo , Jiro Kinokuni
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2017-118141 20170615
- Main IPC: G03G15/02
- IPC: G03G15/02 ; G03G21/18

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging roller, a cleaning roller, an urging member and an image forming portion. The charging roller has an outermost surface layer including an electroconductive resin material, first surface particles having an average particle size of more than 7 μm and less than 30 μm and second surface particles having an average particle size of more than 2 μm and less than 6 μm. The first and second surface particles are dispersed in the electroconductive resin material so as to form first projections and second projections, respectively. The cleaning roller cleaning roller includes a shaft portion and an elastic cleaning portion extending helically around the shaft portion and having a rectangular cross-section perpendicular to an extending direction thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180364605A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CARTRIDGE Public/Granted day:2018-12-20
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