Konica Corporation

Naoki Watanabe

Tadashi Miwa

Toru Makino

Kiyohari Nakagama

Hirotaka Kabashima

Sunao Kawada

Kan Miyake

Sadatoshi Inoue

A clutch is provided with an input section for inputting driving force in to the clutch, an output section for outputting driving force from the clutch, a shifting device for shifting one of the input section and the output section against the other one between an engaging position where the driving force is transmitted by the engagement of the input section with the output section and a releasing position where the driving force is intercepted by releasing the one from the other; and a shock easing member provided to at least one of the input section and the output section, for ease shock caused by the shifting.

Electromagnetic clutch

In an electrostatic recording apparatus equipped with an image carrying member having a surface where there is provided an image forming region on which the toner image is formed and the other region located next to the image forming region in the axial direction on the surface, a cleaning blade made of an elastic material comes in contact with the surface and to clean toner remaining on the surface after the toner image is transferred. The cleaning blade comes in contact with the image forming region and the other region and an edge of a portion of the cleaning blade substantially coming in contact with the other region is hardened by heat.

Electrostatic recording apparatus and cleaning blade

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Hachioji, Japan

Naoki Watanabe