Cleaning device and process cartridge
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuichi Fukui, Shinjiro Toba
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Abstract
A cleaning device detachable from an image forming apparatus, the cleaning device including a frame that includes a waste toner containing unit that contains toner removed with a cleaning member, a vent hole that communicates an inside and an outside of the waste toner containing unit and that is covered with a filter, and a partitioning portion that protrudes inside the waste toner containing unit. In a state in which the cleaning device in mounted in the image forming apparatus, there is a contact position where the image bearing member and the cleaning member come in contact with each other, and the partitioning portion is positioned between the vent hole and the contact position in a vertical direction.
Claims7
A cleaning device detachable from an image forming apparatus, the cleaning device comprising:
- an image bearing member;
- a cleaning member that removes toner on the image bearing member;
- and
- a frame that rotationally supports the image bearing member, and that supports the cleaning member,
- wherein the frame includes
- a waste toner containing unit that contains the toner removed with the cleaning member,
- a vent hole that communicates an inside and an outside of the waste toner containing unit and that is covered with a filter, and
- a partitioning portion that protrudes inside the waste toner containing unit, and
- wherein in a state in which the cleaning device is mounted in the image forming apparatus, the partitioning portion is, in a vertical direction, positioned between a contact position between the image bearing member and the cleaning member, and the vent hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.