Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Atsuhsi Sampe

Masami Tomita

Takeshi Uchitani

Hiroyuki Nagashima

Toshio Koike

Naohiro Kumagai

Takeshi Shintani

Masanori Kawasumi

Eisaku Murakami

Masato Yanagida

Takuji Yoneda

A cleaning device, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus including an antifriction agent coating part and a toner removing part. The antifriction agent coating part coats a solid antifriction agent on the surface of an image support body, and is disposed in an upstream side from a cleaning blade with respect to a rotational direction of the image support body. The toner removing part removes toner particles, and is disposed in an upstream side from the antifriction agent coating part with respect to the rotational direction of the image support body and a portion of the toner removing part is positioned below a portion of the antifriction agent coating part in a vertical direction perpendicular to the ground.

Cleaning device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus

A cleaning device, a process cartridge, an image forming apparatus and toner are disclosed to maintain improved cleaning performance for a long time. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade, an antifriction agent coating part and a toner removing part. The cleaning blade is disposed in contact with a surface of an image support body. The antifriction agent coating part coats a solid antifriction agent on the surface of the image support body, and is disposed in an upstream side from the cleaning blade with respect to a rotational direction of the image support body. The toner removing part removes toner particles, and is disposed in an upstream side from the antifriction agent coating part with respect to the rotational direction of the image support body.

Cleaning device for cleaning a surface of an image support body

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Kanagawa, Japan

Atsuhsi Sampe