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US 9,069,295 B2Granted
Cleaning unit, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsTatsuhiro Igarashi, Manabu Furuki, Masashi Ikeda, Teppei Yawada
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Abstract
Provided is a cleaning unit including a removing member that contacts with a surface of a cleaning target and removes adherent matters on the surface of the cleaning target, a storage section that stores the adherent matters removed by the removing member, and a supply member that has a blade and rotates the blade in the storage section to supply some of the adherent matters stored in the storage section to the surface of the cleaning target.
Claims10
A cleaning unit comprising:
- a removing member that contacts with a surface of a cleaning target and removes adherent matters on the surface of the cleaning target;
- a storage section that stores the adherent matters removed by the removing member;
- a supply member that has a blade and rotates the blade in the storage section to supply some of the adherent matters stored in the storage section to the surface of the cleaning target, wherein the blade of the supply member is made of an elastic material;
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- a protrusion that protrudes in the storage section to flick the adherent matters as the blade of the supply member is temporarily caught with rotation of the blade and to release catching of the blade with further rotation of the blade.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image holding member that has a surface on which a toner image is formed to hold the toner image;
- an image forming device that forms a toner image on the surface of the image holding member;
- a transfer unit that transfers the toner image to a transfer member from the surface of the image holding member;
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- a cleaning unit that removes toner remaining on the surface of the image holding member after the toner image is transferred by the transfer unit to clean the surface of the image holding member,
- wherein a volume average particle diameter of the toner is 2.0 μm to 4.5 μm, and
- wherein the cleaning unit includes
- a removing member that contacts with the surface of the image holding member and rubs the surface to remove the toner from the surface,
- a storage section that stores the toner removed by the removing member, and
- a supply member that has a blade and rotates the blade in the storage section to supply some of the toner stored in the storage section to the surface of the image holding member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.