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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2020
Applicant:
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/0017 (2013.01); G03G 15/161 (2013.01); G03G 2221/0005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cleaning device includes a thin plate-shaped first blade that cleans a surface of a toner carrying body by making a tip portion come in contact with the toner carrying body to carry toner. The first blade includes a substrate and a coat layer covering a surface of the substrate. In the first blade, a cross-sectional shape, in a thickness direction, of the tip portion is a convex shape, or a protruding shape in which a center side protrudes more than an end portion of a contact side.