Process cartridge, image forming apparatus, cleaning method, and cleaning device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorNoriaki Kojima
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Abstract
A process cartridge detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus, includes a cleaning blade which comes into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned incorporated in the image forming apparatus and removes a residual toner adhering to the surface, and a toner feeding unit which is disposed on the cleaning blade at a side where the residual toner adheres to the surface and re-adheres the residual toner having been removed from the surface to the surface.
Claims20
A process cartridge detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a cleaning blade which comes into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned incorporated in the image forming apparatus, and removes a residual toner adhering to the surface;
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- a toner feeding unit which is disposed on the cleaning blade at a side where the residual toner adheres to the surface of the member to be cleaned, and re-adheres the residual toner having been removed from the surface to the surface.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning blade which comes into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned incorporated in the image forming apparatus, and removing a residual toner adhering to the surface;
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- a toner feeding unit which is disposed on the cleaning blade at a side where the residual toner adheres to the surface of the member to be cleaned, and re-adhere the residual toner having been removed from the surface to the surface.
A cleaning method comprising:
- a feeding step of feeding an adhesion substance to a not-yet-cleaned region on a surface of a member to be cleaned;
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- a cleaning step of cleaning the not-yet-cleaned region, to which the adhesion substance has been fed in the feeding step, by a cleaning blade which comes into contact with the surface of the member to be cleaned.
A cleaning device comprising:
- a cleaning blade which comes into contact with a surface of a member to be cleaned, and removes a adhesion substance adhering to the surface;
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- a feeding unit which is disposed on a side of the cleaning blade at a side where the adhesion substance adheres to the surface, and feeds the adhesion substance to the surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.