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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Akihisa Matsukawa, Fuchu, JP;
Toshiki Okamura, Yokohama, JP;
Kuniaki Tamagaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Takanori Watanabe, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyoshi Iwayama, Yokohama, JP;
Makoto Tokudome, Yokohama, JP;
Hideo Kihara, Yokohama, JP;
Naoki Hayashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.