Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tomoki Kutsuwada

Satoshi Inoue

Masahiro Takagi

Satoshi Shigezaki

Yoshinori Nakano

Taichi Yamada

Makoto Sakanobe

Yoshinari Ueno

A cleaning blade for a latent image holding member, an apparatus for forming an image and a process for forming an image are provided at a low cost, in which even in an apparatus for forming an image using a spherical toner, good cleaning property of the latent image holding member is ensured irrespective to the temperature environment upon use without deteriorating an image quality. The cleaning blade for removing a remaining toner by making in contact with a latent image holding member under pressure, as well as an apparatus for forming an image and a process for forming an image using the same are provided. The cleaning blade contains an elastic material having a 300% modulus of about from 14,700 to 29,400 kPa and a tearing strength of about 68,600 N/m or more.

Cleaning blade for latent image holding member, apparatus for forming image and process for forming image

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Ebina, Japan

Tomoki Kutsuwada