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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2007
Minoru Tomiyori, Soraku-gun, JP;
Susumu Murakami, Kizugawa, JP;
Seiichii Kizu, Ikoma, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electrostatic charger according to the present invention includes a needle electrode, a support, and a cleaning member. The needle electrode has a linear array of needles. The support can move along the linear array. The cleaning member is supported by the support rotatably on an axis perpendicular to the linear array. While the support is moving with the cleaning member along the linear array, the cleaning member rotates, with the needles sinking in order into and subsequently coming in order out of the cleaning member. When the cleaning member makes each rotation while moving with the support, some of the needles sink in positions into the cleaning member where any other needles did not sink when the cleaning member made the previous rotation.