Charging apparatus
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsKeiji Masuda, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hiroaki Ura
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Abstract
A charging apparatus wherein a back plate forming a back portion of a shielding member surrounding a discharging wire has an elongate opening for guiding a cleaning member for cleaning and defining a cleaning region of the wire and a cam groove communicating the elongate opening for separating the cleaning member from the wire. The distance between the discharging wire and a side plate of the shielding member is larger than the distance between the discharging wire and the back plate.
Claims6
In a charging apparatus comprising a discharging wire, a shielding member U-shaped in cross section, and a wire cleaning member for cleaning said wire, the improvement wherein a back plate forming a back portion of said shielding member has an elongate opening for guiding said cleaning member and defining a cleaning region of said wire and a cam groove communicating said elongate opening for separating the cleaning member from the wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.