Cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, charging device, process cartridge and image-forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuji Terai, Makoto Nishimura
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Abstract
A cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, includes: a shaft; a strip-shaped sheet which is disposed helically on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; and an adhesive layer which is disposed between the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet and binds the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet, the strip-shaped sheet having, on a surface thereof facing the shaft, an unbound region in which the adhesive layer is absent, at an end in a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet which faces a downstream side in a rotation direction of the shaft.
Claims10
A cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, the cleaning element comprising:
- a shaft;
- a strip-shaped sheet which is disposed helically on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft;
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- an adhesive layer which is disposed between the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet and binds the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet,
- the strip-shaped sheet having, on a surface thereof facing the shaft, an unbound region in which the adhesive layer is absent, at an end in a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet which faces a downstream side in a rotation direction of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.