Image forming apparatus, image forming method, cleaning apparatus, and cleaning method
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasahiro TAKAGI, Tetsuya TAGUCHI, Hirokazu HAMANO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a member to be cleaned and a cleaning roller driven by contact with the member to be cleaned, and the apparatus is configured such that abrasive grains and at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant are supplied to the member to be cleaned and that the supplied abrasive grains and the supplied at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant move on a surface of the member to be cleaned in an axial direction of the cleaning roller.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising a member to be cleaned and a cleaning roller driven by contact with the member to be cleaned, the apparatus being configured such that abrasive grains and at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant are supplied to the member to be cleaned and that the supplied abrasive grains and the supplied at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant move on a surface of the member to be cleaned in an axial direction of the cleaning roller.
A cleaning apparatus comprising a member to be cleaned and a cleaning roller driven by contact with the member to be cleaned, the apparatus being configured such that abrasive grains and at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant are supplied to the member to be cleaned and that the supplied abrasive grains and the supplied at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant move in a longitudinal direction of the member to be cleaned.
A method of cleaning a member to be cleaned, comprising:
- driving a cleaning roller into rotation by contact with the member to be cleaned, the contact being such that the cleaning roller being pressed against the member to be deformed, and
- sliding the cleaning roller on a surface of the member to be cleaned in the presence of abrasive grains ant at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant such that the abrasive grains and the at least one of a release agent and a solid lubricant move in a longitudinal direction of the member to be cleaned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.