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Developer carrying member for carrying developer, apparatus unit detachably mountable on the main assembly of image forming apparatus, and image-forming apparatus

US6122473A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 1998
Grant dateSep 19, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0614
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A developer carrying member for carrying a developer is includes a substrate and a resin coat layer which is formed on the surface of the substrate and contains a binder resin and a conductive fine powder. The binder resin is composed of a copolymer having a monomeric unit of a methyl methacrylate monomer (M) and a monomeric unit of a nitrogen-containing vinyl monomer (N). A copolymerization molar ratio of the methyl methacrylate monomer (M) to the nitrogen-containing vinyl monomer (N) in the copolymer fulfills the following condition: M:N=4:1 to 999:1. The binder resin has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of from 3,000 to 50,000.

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