Image forming apparatus featuring a rotatable electroconductive foam member
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaya Kawada, Toshiyuki Ehara, Harumi Ishiyama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic image; a developing device for developing the electrostatic image on the image bearing member with toner into a toner image; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material; a charging and cleaning device for removing residual toner after image transfer from the image bearing member and for charging the image bearing member; wherein the charging and cleaning device includes a rotatable member which has an electroconductive foam for retaining electroconductive particles and which is rotatable while rubbing the image bearing member.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic image;
- developing means for developing the electrostatic image on said image bearing member with toner into a toner image;
- transfer means for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material;
- charging and cleaning means for removing residual toner after image transfer from said image bearing member and for charging said image bearing member;
- wherein said charging and cleaning means includes a rotatable member which has an electroconductive foam having cells and an electroconductive particle layer formed on said electroconductive foam and which is rotatable while rubbing with said image bearing member with the electroconductive particle layer therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.