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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2011
Takuya Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Morimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideyuki Ohtani, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning device includes a cleaning member that comes into contact with a developer carrier, which carries developer, in a direction crossing a moving direction of the developer carrier and cleans the developer carrier by removing the developer from the developer carrier, a recovery section that is provided with a recovery port formed inside of end portions of the developer carrier in the direction crossing the moving direction of the developer carrier and recovers the developer, which is removed by the cleaning member, through the recovery port, and a guide member that guides the developer to the recovery port, one end of the guide member being positioned outside an end portion of the cleaning member and the end portion of the developer carrier, and the other end of the guide member being positioned inside the cleaning member in the direction crossing the moving direction of the developer carrier.