Patent ID: 8437663

Claim:
A charging member comprising at least: a base material; and a conductive outermost layer that is disposed on the base material, comes into contact with a body to be charged, has a ten-point average surface roughness Rz of about 2 μm to about 20 μm, and comprises (A) a resin and (B) specific conductive particles for forming the surface roughness, the charging member coming into contact with the body to be charged, in a state where a voltage is applied, to charge the body to be charged, wherein the (A) resin comprises a polyamide resin, a gel fraction of the conductive outermost layer is 50% or more, a volume average particle diameter of the (B) specific conductive particles is in a range of from about 2 μm to about 20 μm, and the conductive outermost layer further comprises conductive particles (C) having an average particle diameter of from 1 nm to 200 nm.