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US 8,913,944 B2Granted
Cleaning blade, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the cleaning blade
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYohta Sakon, Masahiro Ohmori
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Abstract
A cleaning blade including a strip-shaped elastic blade having at least one obtuse-angled edge on a tip portion thereof, and a cover layer, which is located on a surface of the tip portion of the elastic blade including the obtuse-angled edge and which is harder than the elastic blade. The obtuse-angled edge having the cover layer thereon is contacted with a moving surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a powdery material from the moving surface of the member.
Claims14
A cleaning blade comprising:
- a strip-shaped elastic blade having an obtuse-angled edge on a tip portion thereof;
- and
- a cover layer, which is located on a surface of the tip portion of the elastic blade including the obtuse-angled edge and which is harder than the elastic blade,
- wherein the obtuse-angled edge having the cover layer thereon is contacted with a moving surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a powdery material from the moving surface of the member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.