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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2008
Yutaka Kiuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Shigezaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoya Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;
Ayumi Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuo Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaya Nakatsuhara, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuki Nagamori, Kanagawa, JP;
Mikio Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Kiuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Shigezaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoya Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;
Ayumi Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Yamashita, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuo Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaya Nakatsuhara, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuki Nagamori, Kanagawa, JP;
Mikio Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts an image carrier and cleans residual toner remaining on the image carrier; a toner pool forming member that is disposed on an upstream side of the cleaning blade in a rotational direction of the image carrier, collects the residual toner that has been cleaned, and forms a toner pool that contacts the cleaning blade and the image carrier; and a toner amount adjusting component that makes the pressure of the residual toner that acts on the image carrier substantially uniform across an axis-of-rotation direction of the image carrier by adjusting the amount of the residual toner in the toner pool in the axis-of-rotation direction of the image carrier.