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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2010
Takatoshi Ishikawa, Ebina, JP;
Takashi Kawabata, Ebina, JP;
Osamu Handa, Ebina, JP;
Atsuhito Tokuyama, Ebina, JP;
Tsutomu Komiyama, Ebina, JP;
Takatoshi Ishikawa, Ebina, JP;
Takashi Kawabata, Ebina, JP;
Osamu Handa, Ebina, JP;
Atsuhito Tokuyama, Ebina, JP;
Tsutomu Komiyama, Ebina, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning device includes: a brush that has numerous bristles rotating and contacting to the surface of an image carrier, a removing member disposed so as to contact to the numerous bristles and removes a developer adhering to the numerous bristles by elastically deforming the numerous bristles and further returning the numerous deformed bristles back to normal, and a transport member disposed lower than the removing member in the gravitational direction and transports the developer removed with the removing member by rotating on an axis, wherein at least a part of the developer removed from the numerous bristles falls to a farther position than the axis of the transport member from the brush in the horizontal direction.