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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1982
Filed:
May. 08, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355 15 ; 1525651 ; 1525652 ;
Abstract
A blade-type cleaning device for use in an electrophotographic copying machine which is effective to prevent generation of abnormal noise resulting from vibration of a blade member. The cleaning device has an elastic blade member in pressing contact with a surface of rotating photoconductive member for removing residual toner from the surface thereof during the movement of the photoconductive member, and a holder for holding the blade member wherein a leading edge portion of the holder and the surface of the blade member confronting it having some degree of freedom with respect to one another.