Patent ID: 8227087

Claim:
A process for producing a charging member comprising a support, a conductive elastic layer formed on the support and a surface layer formed on the conductive elastic layer, comprising the steps of: (A) providing a condensation product having an epoxy group by hydrolyzing and condensing a hydrolyzable silane compound represented by the following formulae (2a) or (2b): wherein R 21 and R 22 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; Z 21 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and d is an integer of 0 to 2, e is an integer of 1 to 3, and d+e is 3; (B) providing a coating solution for the surface layer containing the condensation product and a compound represented by the following formula (3): R 31 —X—H (3) wherein X represents one functional group selected from the group consisting of —O—, —NR 32 - and —COO—; R 31 represents an alkyl group having 5 to 30 carbon atoms; and R 32 represents a hydrogen atom; and (C) coating the surface of the conductive elastic layer with the coating solution, and then cleaving the epoxy group of the condensation product and reacting the condensation product and the compound represented by the formula (3) to form the surface layer on the conductive elastic layer.