Patent ID: 8792810

Claim:
A developer carrying member comprising a substrate and a surface layer; wherein: the surface layer is a cured product of a resin composition containing a binder resin, conductive particles, a quaternary phosphonium salt and an azo metal complex compound; and wherein: the binder resin has in the molecular structure at least one structure selected from the group consisting of an —NH 2 group, an ═NH group and an —NH— linkage; and the azo metal complex compound is a compound represented by formula (1): where, in the formula (1), X 1 , X 2 , X 3 and X 4 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted pyrazolene group; M represents Fe, Cr or Al; and J + represents a cation; where a substituent the phenylene group, the naphthylene group and the pyrazolene group may each independently have is at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s), a nitro group, a halogen atom, an anilide group which may have a substituent and a phenyl group which may have a substituent, where the substituent the anilide group and the phenyl group may each independently have is at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atom(s) and a halogen atom.