Cleaning device, image holding body unit, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorYu Tsuda
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Abstract
A cleaning device, for cleaning an image holding body that rotates while holding a toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image holding body, includes: a scraping member that scrapes toner sticking to the outer circumferential surface of the image holding body in a rotating state by a distal end of the scraping member being in contact with, in the outer circumferential surface, in a region in which the image holding body moves upward from below; a trapping member in which toner scraped from the outer circumferential surface to fall is trapped; and at least one raising member that raises up toner trapped in the trapping member, toward the distal end of the scraping member.
Claims12
A cleaning device for cleaning an image holding body that rotates while holding a toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image holding body, the cleaning device comprising:
- a scraping member that scrapes toner sticking to the outer circumferential surface of the image holding body in a rotating state by a distal end of the scraping member being in contact with, in the outer circumferential surface, a region in which the image holding body moves upward from below;
- a trapping member in which toner scraped from the outer circumferential surface to fall is trapped;
- at least one raising member comprised of a sheet member being elastically deformable that raises up toner trapped in the trapping member, toward the distal end of the scraping member;
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- a transport member that, while rotating, transports toner trapped in the trapping member in an axial direction of the image holding body, wherein:
- rotation of the transport member causes the at least one raising member to move from an original state to an elastically deformed state and further rotation of the transport member causes the raising member to elastically return to the original state thereby causing the raising up of the toner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.