Abstract: A corona charger including a corona discharge electrode and a control electrode is provided. A layer including a zeolite, a conductive agent, and a binder resin is formed on a surface of the control electrode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a process cartridge have high-durability and stably form high quality images under long-term use without reducing image density even when concentration of discharge products at the surface of an electrophotographic photoconductor becomes uneven in a discharge region of a charging unit. The apparatus employs an image forming method and has a corona discharge type charging unit discharging in a non-contact manner, the photoconductor placed to face the charging unit and the outermost surface layer thereof contains a filler and an amine compound with a specific structure, and an airflow adjusting device which carries air taken from the outside of the apparatus to the vicinity of the charging unit or the photoconductor so that ozone concentration and unevenness thereof are maintained at an average of 30 ppm or less and 15 ppm or less respectively at the surface of the photoconductor in the discharge region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which has high durability and allows for preventing occurrence of image blur and suppressing image degradation caused by a reduction in image density near a charging unit used under a high-humidity condition and stably forming high-quality images even when repetitively used for a long hours.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that has high-durability and can prevent image degradation that could be caused by an increase in residual potential on a photoconductor, occurrence of image blur and incidental images and can stably form a high-quality image even when repetitively used for long hours, and includes at least an electrophotographic photoconductor, a non-contact type corona discharge charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit and a charge eliminating unit configured to eliminate a residual charge on the photoconductor by irradiating the electrophotographic photoconductor with light, wherein the outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoconductor contains at least a filler and an is amine compound having a specific structure, and the exposure dose of the charge eliminating unit is controlled at at least two stages during a time from the start of image forming operation to the end of the image forming operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoconductor comprising a photoconductive layer, a protective layer, and a conductive support, wherein the protective layer is disposed as the outermost layer of the photoconductive layer, and 20% by volume to 60% by volume of fine particles of fluorine-contained resin and at least one compound selected from amine aromatic compounds and hydroxy aromatic compounds are incorporated into the protective layer. According to the present invention, high durability may be achieved, image degradation such as lags may be controlled from the increase of residual potential and decrease of charging, and high quality images may be formed stably even after the prolonged and repeated usage. The present invention also relates to an electrophotographic process, an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge for the electrophotographic apparatus which utilize the electrophotographic photoconductor respectively.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate, wherein an outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an amine compound and a charge transport material, and wherein the amine compound includes an amine site having an electrostatic potential with a dimensionless unit not greater than ?0.27.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoconductor comprising a photoconductive layer, a protective layer, and a conductive support, wherein the protective layer is disposed as the outermost layer of the photoconductive layer, and 20% by volume to 60% by volume of fine particles of fluorine-contained resin and at least one compound selected from amine aromatic compounds and hydroxy aromatic compounds are incorporated into the protective layer. According to the present invention, high durability may be achieved, image degradation such as lags may be controlled from the increase of residual potential and decrease of charging, and high quality images may be formed stably even after the prolonged and repeated usage. The present invention also relates to an electrophotographic process, an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge for the electrophotographic apparatus which utilize the electrophotographic photoconductor respectively.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus which includes an image developer configured to develop a latent electrostatic image and to have a developer, a developer bearing member which has a magnet therein, has the developer on a surface thereof, and rotates with carrying the developer, and a developer limiting member which faces the developer bearing member, and controls an amount of the developer, and a latent electrostatic image support configured to contain a filler in its outermost layer. In the image-forming apparatus, the developer is a double-component developer which contains a magnetic carrier and a toner, the magnetic carrier has a coating layer which is formed of a binder resin having particles retained on a surface of the magnetic carrier, and a ratio of a particle diameter D1 of the particles to a film thickness h1 of the binder resin satisfies a relation of: 1<D1/h1<10.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus which includes an image developer configured to develop a latent electrostatic image and to have a developer, a developer bearing member which has a magnet therein, has the developer on a surface thereof, and rotates with carrying the developer, and a developer limiting member which faces the developer bearing member, and controls an amount of the developer, and a latent electrostatic image support configured to contain a filler in its outermost layer. In the image-forming apparatus, the developer is a double-component developer which contains a magnetic carrier and a toner, the magnetic carrier has a coating layer which is formed of a binder resin having particles retained on a surface of the magnetic carrier, and a ratio of a particle diameter D1 of the particles to a film thickness h1 of the binder resin satisfies a relation of: 1<D1/h1<10.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor drum having a cylindrical hollow support with a length L (cm), provided that L is 30 cm or more, a photoconductive layer provided on an external surface of the cylindrical hollow support, with a total weight of the support and the photoconductive layer being W1 (g), and a weight-controlling member, with a total weight of the above-mentioned weight W1 (g) and the weight-controlling member being W2 (g), the length L, the weight W1 and the weight W2 satisfying the relationship of formula (1) of log(W1/L.sup.3).ltoreq.-2.4 and the formula (2) of log(W2/L.sup.3)>-2.4.