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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2009
Akihiro Fuchigami, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuusuke Taneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiro Fuchigami, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuusuke Taneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning an object to be cleaned by allowing a cleaning medium caused to fly by an air flow to collide with the object to be cleaned is provided. The cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning tank in which the cleaning medium is caused to fly by the air flow and which has an opening to allow the object to be cleaned to pass through; a cleaning medium accelerating part provided at a bottom part of the cleaning tank and to inject the air flow to cause the cleaning medium to fly; a hollow elongated member having substantially the same inner diameter as a diameter of the opening, connected outside the opening, and configured to form a movement path for the object to be cleaned; and a cleaning medium returning part to return the cleaning medium stagnant in the hollow elongated member into the cleaning tank.