Patent ID: 7151904
Filing Date: 2006-12-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A conductive member, comprising: a tubular conductive supporting body, which is disposed close to a photoconductor having non-image forming areas on both end portions and an image forming area on an intermediate portion; an electric resistance adjusting layer, which is disposed on a surface of the intermediate portion except for the end portion of the conductive supporting body; a pair of space adjusting members including a material different from the electric resistance adjusting layer, which are disposed on the both end portions of the conductive supporting body, wherein one end surface of a pair of end surfaces facing each other in an axis line in each of the space adjusting members, which is positioned in an electric resistance adjusting layer side is firmly fixed to an end surface of the electric resistance adjusting layer, an outer circumferential surface of each of the space adjusting members abuts on an outer circumferential surface in each of the non-image forming areas of the photo conductor, an outer diameter of each of the space adjusting members is set larger than an outer diameter of the electric resistance adjusting layer to form a space between an outer surface of the electric resistance adjusting layer and an outer surface of the photoconductor in a state that the outer circumferential surface of each of the space adjusting members abuts on the outer circumferential surface of the photoconductor, and each of the space adjusting members includes,