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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:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2007
Applicants:
Osamu Handa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Katahira, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Osamu Handa, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Katahira, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a cleaning device including a cleaning member that cleans a surface of a rotating cylindrical element to be cleaned, and whose length in a longitudinal direction is longer than a length of the maximum operating region of the element to be cleaned, a length of a contact part of the cleaning member at which the cleaning member contacts with the element to be cleaned being shorter than the length in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning member, and the contact part being moved in the longitudinal direction of the element to be cleaned.