Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Naoya Mitamura

Akira Shimodaira

Kanji Watanabe

Tomoya Oki

Kiho Mitomo

So Endo

A cleaning device includes a blade-shaped cleaning member of which a tip formed by an elastic body is arranged to be pressed against an endless belt and that cleans a surface of the endless belt; and a driven roller that is arranged to face the cleaning member via the endless belt and is driven and rotated with movement of the endless belt and of which an outer peripheral surface is formed by an elastic body.

Cleaning device and image forming apparatus

A cleaning device includes a cleaning member that removes toner from a surface of an image holder by bringing an upper end portion into contact with the surface from a downstream side in a rotation direction of the image holder, a housing that supports the cleaning member and that stores the toner removed from the surface of the image holder by the cleaning member, and a transport member that is provided in the housing and that transports the toner stored in the housing to an outside of the housing at the same height as a contact portion of the cleaning member that comes into contact with the surface of the image holder or at a position above the contact portion.

An image forming apparatus includes: a paper feeding part that houses a medium to be fed; a belt-shaped image holding part that holds an image on a surface of the image holding part and rotates; a transfer part disposed to face the image holding part and transfers an image onto a medium from the image holding part in a final transfer region; and a cleaning part that removes a deposit on the surface of the image holding part passed through the final transfer region, in which a downstream side of the paper feeding part in a transport direction of a medium is inclined to be closer than an upstream side of the paper feeding part to the final transfer region, and the image holding part is inclined upward on a downstream side of the final transfer region toward the downstream side in a rotation of the image holding part.

Image forming apparatus

A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit that cleans an object to be cleaned that moves by bringing a contact portion into contact with the object to be cleaned, the contact portion extending in a width direction that crosses a moving direction in which the object to be cleaned moves, the cleaning unit including a supported surface at a downstream side in the moving direction; and a support unit including a supporting surface that faces the supported surface and that includes a bonded portion bonded to the supported surface, the support unit supporting the cleaning unit at the bonded portion. The bonded portion is provided at an intermediate position of the supporting surface in a direction in which the supporting surface extends toward the object to be cleaned, and the support unit includes an extending portion that extends further toward the object to be cleaned from the bonded portion.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naoya Mitamura