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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Shunsuke Yamasaki, Osaka, JP;
Shinobu Ohata, Osaka, JP;
Naoto Miyakoshi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroatsu Tamai, Osaka, JP;
Yasuhiro Michishita, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Watanabe, Osaka, JP;
Kenichi Satake, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Sakane, Osaka, JP;
Masato Usui, Osaka, JP;
Yuzuru Yuasa, Osaka, JP;
Yusuke Tamekuni, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The cleaning device includes a cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller to clean the surface of the conveyance roller, and a housing that supports the cleaning part. The cleaning part includes a web of a strip shape, the web forming the contact surface that comes in contact with the conveyance roller, a pressing roller that presses the web against the conveyance roller, a feed-out roller that feeds out the web so as to cause a part of the web that comes in contact with the conveyance roller to shift, and a take-up roller that takes up the web. The housing has an opening that receives foreign matter dropping from the vicinity of a nip portion formed between the pressing roller and the conveyance roller.