Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Tetsuka

Tetsuya Furuyama

Kohyu Shigemori

Hideaki Ohike

Yutaka Shiino

Harufumi Itoh

In a cleaning unit for an image forming apparatus, a housing; a brush, whose sectional profile is circular; the housing containing a photosensitive body which rotates; the brush included in the housing; an auger for discharging recovered toner separated from a surface of the photosensitive body by the brush; the auger disposed obliquely below the brush; and a flicker for scraping off the toner adhering to the brush while containing an outer surface portion of the brush.

Cleaning unit for image forming apparatus

A print cartridge having: a housing; an image bearing member rotatably supported on the housing; and a power transmit member for connecting the image bearing member to a drive shaft of metal projected from a body of an apparatus. The print cartridge is withdrawable from the apparatus body. The image bearing member includes a cylindrical drum and a flange fixedly mounted on one end of the drum; the flange having a metal portion provided at a central portion thereof, and a resin portion provided around the metal portion. The metal portion has at an axis of rotation of the flange a shaft support portion for rotatably supporting the drive shaft. The metal portion has a first fitting portion provided on one side thereof directed toward the power transmit member. The power transmit member has a second fitting portion provided on one side thereof directed toward the flange. The first fitting portion and the second fitting portion are fitted together in the direction of rotation of the image bearing member.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tsutomu Tetsuka