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US 2012/0070183 A1Published application
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Ikeda
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning member for cleaning a grid electrode of a corona charger and includes a sheet-like member for opening and closing an opening of the corona charger. The cleaning member is located above the sheet-like member with respect to a direction of gravitation, and wherein the sheet-like member is present right below the cleaning member when the cleaning member is present in an image formation range with respect to a longitudinal direction of the grid electrode.
Claims4
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning member for cleaning a grid electrode of a corona charger;
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- a sheet-like member for opening and closing an opening of the corona charger,
- wherein said cleaning member is located above said sheet-like member with respect to a direction of gravitation, and
- wherein said sheet-like member is present right below said cleaning member when said cleaning member is present in an image formation range with respect to a longitudinal direction of the grid electrode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.