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US 9,002,221 B2Granted
Cleaning device for image carrier and image forming apparatus including cleaning portion for image carrier
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorKei Wakayama
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Abstract
A cleaning device includes a cleaning portion and a pressing portion. The cleaning portion comes into contact with an image carrier that is adapted to carry a toner image. The pressing portion includes a clamping surface and a protruding portion and presses the cleaning portion against the image carrier. The clamping surface clamps the cleaning portion from both sides in cooperation with the image carrier. The protruding portion protrudes from the clamping surface toward the image carrier.
Claims12
A cleaning device comprising:
- a cleaning seal that comes into contact with an image carrier that is adapted to carry a toner image;
- a rubbing roller that rubs the image carrier;
- a support bracket that includes a clamping surface and a protruding surface and supports the rubbing roller, the clamping surface clamping the cleaning seal from both sides in cooperation with the image carrier, the protruding surface protruding from the clamping surface toward the image carrier and pressing the cleaning seal against the image carrier;
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- a cleaning blade including an abutment edge that abuts against the image carrier after the rubbing roller relative to the rotational direction of the rubbing roller, wherein
- the image carrier includes a rubbed region and an adjacent region, the rubbed region being rubbed by the rubbing roller, the adjacent region being adjacent to the rubbed region,
- the support bracket allows the protruding surface to press the cleaning seal against the adjacent region of the image carrier, and
- the protruding surface includes a projection formed at a boundary of the clamping surface and the protruding surface that is further away from the rubbing roller than the clamping surface.
5 more elements
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier that is adapted to carry a toner image;
- a cleaning seal that comes into contact with the image carrier;
- a rubbing roller that rubs the image carrier;
- a support bracket that includes a clamping surface and a protruding surface and supports the rubbing roller, the clamping surface clamping the cleaning seal from both sides in cooperation with the image carrier, the protruding surface protruding from the clamping surface toward the image carrier and pressing the cleaning seal against the image carrier;
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- a cleaning blade including an abutment edge that abuts against the image carrier after the rubbing roller relative to the rotational direction of the rubbing roller, wherein
- the image carrier includes rubbed region and an adjacent region, the rubbed region being rubbed by the rubbing roller, the adjacent region being adjacent to the rubbed region,
- the support bracket allows the protruding surface to press the cleaning seal against the adjacent region of the image carrier, and
- the protruding surface includes a projection formed at the boundary of the clamping surface and the protruding surface that is further away from the rubbing roller than the clamping surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.