| 摘要 |
A method for manufacturing a brush charging device for an image forming apparatus wherein the brush charging device charges a surface of an image carrier, which has the steps of sewing brush fibers on base cloth such that the brush fibers are positioned vertically with respect to the base cloth, mounting the base cloth with the brush fibers onto a support member which has substantially the same curvature as that of the forming carrier and linearly cutting the tip of the fibers on the base cloth mounted on the support member. A brush charging device for an image forming apparatus, which charges a surface of an image carrier rotating in a predetermined direction, has a linear mount member, a base cloth mounted on the mount member and a brush member having fibers sewed on the base cloth at an angle theta 1, the angle theta 1 satisfying the following formula: cos theta 1 > c/(a + b) wherein a represents the radius of the image carrier, b represents the length of the brush fibers and c represents the distance between a point of intersection where a perpendicular line extending from the center of the image carrier to the base cloth intersects the base cloth and an edge portion of the base cloth located upstream going in the direction of the image carrier and where the brush fibers contact the surface of the image carrier. |
