Patent ID: 6962746

Claim:
A conductive member comprising: a support; and at least one cover layer provided on said support and comprising a surface layer containing fine particles, wherein said surface layer comprises: a surface-layer lower part extending from the lowermost plane of said surface layer to a portion of said surface layer that is within 30% of the total layer thickness of said surface layer from the lowermost plane; and a surface-layer upper part extending from the uppermost plane of said surface layer to a portion of said surface layer that is within 30% of the total layer thickness of said surface layer from the uppermost plane, wherein the average particle diameter of the fine particles present at the surface-layer lower part is larger than the average particle diameter of the fine particles present at the surface-layer upper part, wherein the fine particles present at said surface-layer lower part have an average particle diameter of from 0.02 μm to 2.0 μm and the fine particles present at said surface-layer upper part have an average particle diameter of from 0.001 μm to 1.0 μm.