- Patent Title: Cleaning member for image forming apparatus including a protrusion
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Application No.: US16654795Application Date: 2019-10-16
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Publication No.: US10795306B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Yoshiki Nakane , Takenobu Kimura , Kei Okamura , Hiroshi Morimoto , Natsuko Minegishi
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@545c54fd
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning member formed by an elastic body, and a member to be cleaned in which toner added with an external additive adheres to a surface, and the toner is to be cleaned by the cleaning member being in contact with the surface, wherein the cleaning member has a protrusion disposed on a cleaning surface extending from a contact part with the member to be cleaned, and facing a side where the toner is to be cleaned, of the member to be cleaned.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200125026A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-04-23
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