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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tomoyuki Kato, Mishima, JP;
Satoshi Itaya, Mishima, JP;
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 2/100 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a recording paper conveyor, a photosensitive drum, a charger, an exposure, a developer with toner, a transfer, and a cleaner. A process unit has the photosensitive drum and the cleaner in which a blade scrapes a residual toner from the drum, a paddle rotates to move the toner from the drum, and a scraper scraping the toner carried by the arm by its free end which is disposed radially outwardly and near to a rotation locus drawn by a radially directional outer end of an arm of the paddle during a rotation of the paddle.