Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, developing cartridge, and drum cartridge
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Application No.: US15942652Application Date: 2018-04-02
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Publication No.: US10209668B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Akihisa Matsukawa , Toshiki Okamura , Kuniaki Tamagaki , Takanori Watanabe , Hiroyoshi Iwayama , Makoto Tokudome , Hideo Kihara , Naoki Hayashi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2016-144613 20160722
- Main IPC: G03G15/02
- IPC: G03G15/02 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G21/16 ; G03G21/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180224799A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE, AND DRUM CARTRIDGE Public/Granted day:2018-08-09
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