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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
May. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yuya Shimohora, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/206 (2013.01); G03G 21/007 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00607 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a roller pair, a paper dust collecting member, a scraping member, and a paper dust receiver. The paper dust collecting member can be drawn out from the apparatus main body and is disposed along an axis direction of the roller pair so as to collect paper dust adhered to one roller of the roller pair. The scraping member scrapes off paper dust adhered to the paper dust collecting member when the paper dust collecting member is moved in a draw-out direction. The paper dust receiver is disposed below the scraping member so as to receive the paper dust scraped off by the scraping member.