Image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorTakahiko Kobayashi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit having a light transmitting portion, the cleaning mechanism that includes a cleaning rod with a pad at a front end portion thereof to be capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion, and a retaining mechanism that retains the cleaning rod slidably in a longitudinal direction of the light transmitting portion, and that retains the pad positioned above the optical scanning unit and spaced apart from the optical scanning unit in a state where the cleaning rod is at an insertion completed position.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an optical scanning unit having a light transmitting portion;
- and
- a cleaning mechanism that includes:
- a cleaning rod with a pad at a front end portion thereof to be capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion;
- and
- a retaining mechanism that retains the cleaning rod slidably in a longitudinal direction of the light transmitting portion, and that retains the pad positioned above the optical scanning unit and substantially spaced apart from the optical scanning unit in a state where the cleaning rod is at an insertion completed position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an optical scanning unit having a light transmitting portion;
- and
- a cleaning mechanism that includes:
- a cleaning rod with a pad at a front end portion thereof to be capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion;
- and
- a retaining mechanism that retains the cleaning rod slidably in a longitudinal direction of the light transmitting portion, and that retains the pad positioned above the optical scanning unit and substantially spaced apart from the optical scanning unit in a state where the cleaning rod is at an insertion completed position,
- the retaining mechanism that includes:
- a guide rail that retains the front end portion of the cleaning rod so that the pad is substantially spaced apart from the surface of the optical scanning unit, when the cleaning rod is inserted, and that is engaged with the front end portion of the cleaning rod to bring the pad substantially into contact with the surface of the light transmitting portion of the optical scanning unit, when the cleaning rod is pulled;
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- a receiving portion that receives the front end portion of the cleaning rod separated from an end portion of the guide rail before the insertion completed portion at a position substantially spaced apart from the surface of the optical scanning unit, when the cleaning rod is inserted.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an optical scanning means having a light transmitting portion;
- and
- a cleaning mechanism that includes:
- a cleaning rod means with a pad at a front end portion thereof for being capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion;
- and
- a retaining means for retaining the cleaning rod slidably in a longitudinal direction of the light transmitting portion, and for retaining the pad positioned above the optical scanning unit and substantially spaced apart from the optical scanning unit in a state where the cleaning rod is at an insertion completed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.