Patent ID: 8685601
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: C08F,C08G,C08J,C08L,G03G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electrophotographic member comprising: an electrically conductive substrate; and an electrically conductive resin layer as a surface layer, wherein: the resin layer comprises electrically conductive particles and a binder resin, and the binder resin is a polymer in which a polymer chain having at least one unit selected from the group consisting of units represented by the following formulas (1) and (2), and at least one unit selected from the group consisting of units represented by the following formulas (3) and (4), is crosslinked by at least one organopolysiloxane chain selected from the group consisting of structures represented by the following formulas (5) and (6): wherein in the formula (5), R in the formula (6), R a sign “*” of the formula (3) and the formula (4) represents a binding site with a sign “*” of the formula (5) or the formula (6).