Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including first and second cleaning members
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuka Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A cleaning device of this invention has a first cleaning member that is provided opposing to a developer image carrier for the scraping of the surface of the developer image carrier and a second cleaning member that is put over the first cleaning member and runs between the surface of the developer image carrier and the first cleaning member for the wiping of the surface of the developer image carrier simultaneously with the scraping of the surface of the developer image carrier by the first cleaning member. This cleaning device is used for cleaning of the developer image carrier of an image forming apparatus.
Claims22
A cleaning device comprising:
- a first cleaning member that is opposed to a developer image carrier and scrapes the surface of the developer image carrier;
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- a second cleaning member that runs between the surface of the developer image carrier and the first cleaning member in a state put over the first cleaning member and wipes the surface of the developer image carrier simultaneously with the scraping of the surface of the developer image carrier by the first cleaning member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a latent image carrier;
- an image forming unit to form a developer image on the latent image carrier;
- a transferring device to transfer the developer image formed on the latent image carrier on a transfer material;
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- a cleaning device provided opposing to the latent image carrier, comprising a first cleaning member having a scraping function of the surface of the latent image carrier and a second cleaning member having a wiping function of the surface of the latent image carrier running between the latent image carrier surface and the first cleaning member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a latent image carrier;
- an image forming unit to form a developer image on the latent image carrier;
- an intermediate transfer body to secondarily transfer the developer image primarily transferred from the latent image carrier on a transfer material;
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- a cleaning device provided opposing to the intermediate transfer body and comprised of a first cleaning member having a scraping function of the surface of the latent image carrier and a second cleaning member having a wiping function of the surface of the latent image carrier by running between the surface of the intermediate transfer body and the first cleaning member, and simultaneously executes the scraping by the first cleaning member and the wiping by the second cleaning member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.