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US 2010/0247188 A1Published application
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuichi Fukuda, Noriaki Kojima, Makoto Sakanobe, Hiromi Nagai, Hiroaki Akamatsu, Masahiro Katahira
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Abstract
A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts a surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the member to be cleaned, and that includes multiple layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade shifts in a separating direction from the surface of the member to be cleaned due to a difference in thermal expansion property among the multiple layers when temperature rises.
Claims7
A cleaning device comprising:
- a cleaning blade that contacts a surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the member to be cleaned, and that comprises a plurality of layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade shifts in a separating direction from the surface of the member to be cleaned due to a difference in thermal expansion property among the plurality of layers when temperature rises.
A cleaning device comprising:
- a cleaning blade member that contacts a surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the member to be cleaned, and that comprises a plurality of layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade member shifts in a separating direction from the surface of the member to be cleaned due to a difference in thermal expansion property among the plurality of layers when temperature rises;
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- a holding member that fixes and holds a base end portion of the cleaning blade member through an adhesive agent.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier that is rotatably driven to form a toner image on a surface thereof;
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- a cleaning blade member that contacts the surface of the image carrier to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the image carrier, and that comprises a plurality of layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade member shifts in a separating direction from the surface of the image carrier due to a difference in thermal expansion property among the plurality of layers when temperature rises.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.