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Contact charging member for charging a photosensitive drum having improved durability and a method for making the same

US5576805A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 1995
Grant dateNov 19, 1996
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/025
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A charging member contactable to a member to be charged to electrically charge it, the improvement residing in that a microhardness of an end region, with respect to a longitudinal direction, of the charging member is larger than that in a central region of the charging member.

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