US 12,105,436 B2
Charging roll for electrophotographic equipment
Yoshihiro Saito, Aichi (JP); and Shimpei Miyagawa, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi (JP)
Filed by Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/348,336.
Application 18/348,336 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/011153, filed on Mar. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-051836 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0350321 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0233 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charging roll for electrophotographic equipment, comprising:
a shaft body;
an elastic body layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft body; and
a surface layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the elastic body layer, wherein
the elastic body layer contains silicone rubber, and comprises a plurality of large protruding parts having a width of 13 μm or more and 48 μm or less and a height of 5 μm or more and 13 μm or less on the outer circumferential surface of the elastic body layer, and a plurality of small protruding parts forming unevenness having a ten-point average roughness Rz of 1.0 μm or more and 6.0 μm or less on a surface of the large protruding parts, and
the surface layer contains a urethane polymer, and has an elongation at breakage of 285% or more and 525% or less.