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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a movable intermediary transfer member onto which the toner image is to be transferred from the image bearing member; and a cleaning member, contacting a surface of the intermediary transfer member, for scraping off a toner from the surface of the intermediary transfer member which moves. At the surface of the intermediary transfer member, a plurality of grooves are formed along a surface movement direction of the intermediary transfer member. The surface of the intermediary transfer member has an average in-plane roughness of 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less in an area of a square of an average particle size of the toner.