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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yu Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Tano, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Ono, Kanagawa, JP;
Shintaro Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuko Kawase, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriaki Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Sugimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/16 (2006.01); B08B 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/161 (2013.01); B08B 1/001 (2013.01); G03G 21/0017 (2013.01); B08B 1/005 (2013.01); G03G 15/0131 (2013.01); G03G 15/168 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1652 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1661 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a cleaning blade of which a contact portion brought into contact with at least a member to be cleaned is formed of a polyurethane member that includes a polyurethane material containing a hard segment and a soft segment and has a ratio of an area occupied by a hard segment aggregate having a diameter of 0.3 μm to 0.7 μm in a cross section being in a range of 2% to 10%.