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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Hiroshi Ikuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Yohta Sakon, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ohmori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Egawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Tetsuya Toshine, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroshi Ikuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Yohta Sakon, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Ohmori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Egawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Tetsuya Toshine, Shizuoka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus including at least a photoreceptor; and a cleaning blade formed of a strip-shaped elastic blade to contact an edge line to the surface of the photoreceptor, wherein the photoreceptor includes a surface layer comprising a particulate material, and the edge line of the cleaning blade includes a substrate of the elastic blade; a mixed layer having a thickness not less than 1.0 μm, formed of the substrate and at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located at the surface of the substrate; and a surface layer having a thickness not less than 0.1 μm, formed of at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located on the surface of the substrate.