Image forming apparatus

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor, and a charging device including a charging member that charges a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and a cleaning member that is disposed in contact with the charging member, in which the electrophotographic photoreceptor has a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, and an outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a charge transport material and a polyarylate resin having a dicarboxylic acid unit represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit represented by Formula (B), the cleaning member has a core metal and a foamed elastic layer provided in a helical shape on an outer peripheral surface of the core metal, and a value of a ratio T/W of a thickness T of the foamed elastic layer to a width W of the foamed elastic layer is 0.6 or more and 1.2 or less, in Formula (A), ArA1 and ArA2 are each independently an aromatic ring which may have a substituent, LA is a single bond or a divalent linking group, and nA1 is 0, 1, or 2, in Formula (B), ArB1 and ArB2 are each independently an aromatic ring which may have a substituent, LB is a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or —C(Rb1)(Rb2)—, and nB1 is 0, 1, or 2, where Rb1 and Rb2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 12 or less carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, and Rb1 and Rb2 may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic alkyl group.

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