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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2023
Masahiro Ohmori, Kanagawa, JP;
Keiichiro Juri, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Akiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning blade for an intermediate transfer medium is provided. A cleaning target of the cleaning blade is an intermediate transfer medium. The cleaning blade includes an edge layer and a coating layer. The coating layer provided on a forefront end of the edge layer at which the edge layer contacts the intermediate transfer medium contains a first fluorine-based resin and a second fluorine-based resin incompatible with the first fluorine-based resin. The cleaning blade for an intermediate transfer medium has a Martens hardness of 0.5 N/mmor greater and 3 N/mmor less at a location having a distance of 20 μm from a ridgeline of the forefront end of the edge layer.