Patent ID: 9720343
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G03G,H02J

Claim:
1. A conductive member comprising: a substrate; an elastic layer formed on the substrate; and a surface layer formed on the elastic layer, wherein the surface layer has a sea-island structure that includes a sea portion at least containing a first resin and a conductive agent and island portions at least containing a second resin, the island portions have an average diameter of at least 100 nm and not greater than 1/10 of the thickness of the surface layer, and the conductive agent contained in the sea portion is unevenly distributed in a vicinity of an interface of the sea portion with the island portions, wherein the amount of the conductive agent that is present in the sea portion is not less than 80% relative to the total amount of the conductive agent contained in the surface layer.