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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masataka Kuribayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takafumi Koide, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Katsuyuki Kitajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Kamisaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Teppei Yawada, Kanagawa, JP;
Shota Oshima, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit, an electrostatic charge image forming unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, and a cleaning unit having a cleaning blade that is in contact with the surface of the image holding member to clean the surface of the image holding member, wherein in the cleaning device, a variation in a load applied by the cleaning blade to the image holding member in a slide test is 1.5 gf/mm or less, wherein in the slide test, an image holding member which has a diameter of 30 mm and with which the cleaning blade is in contact at a contact angle of 23° and a pressing pressure of 4.0 gf/mm is rotated 100,000 times at a rotational speed of 175 mm/sec to slide the cleaning blade.