Cleaning blade, image forming apparatus and process cartridge

A cleaning blade, comprising a strip-shaped elastic blade configured to contact the surface of a member to be cleaned, traveling on an edge line of the elastic blade, to remove a powder from the surface of the member to be cleaned,

• wherein the edge line of the elastic blade is impregnated with an ultraviolet curable resin comprising a fluorinated acrylic monomer,
• a surface layer harder than the elastic blade is formed on each of an under surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the under surface and facing the member to be cleaned, and an apical surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the apical surface and being parallel to a direction of the thickness thereof, and
• the apical surface is impregnated with the ultraviolet curable resin at a depth of from 50 to 150 μm and the under surface is impregnated with the ultraviolet curable resin at a depth of from 20 to 100 μm.