Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 用于成像设备的清洁刀片
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Application No.: US11714811Application Date: 2007-03-07
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Publication No.: US07715778B2Publication Date: 2010-05-11
- Inventor: Mutsuki Sugimoto
- Applicant: Mutsuki Sugimoto
- Applicant Address: JP Kobe
- Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kobe
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2006-062858 20060308; JP2006-079593 20060322
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
A cleaning blade, for use in an image-forming apparatus, for removing toner which remains on a surface of a photoreceptor drum thereof, with the cleaning blade in contact with the photoreceptor drum. The cleaning blade is formed from a sheet composed of a thermosetting elastomer composition. The roughness degree of a ridgeline formed longitudinally on a cleaning blade edge which contacts the photoreceptor is set to not more than 10 μm. The straightness degree of the ridgeline is set to not more than 100 μm. In a test of supplying 150,000 sheets of paper conducted by mounting the cleaning blade on the image-forming apparatus, a change rate ΔRe of an average roughness degree value Re of the ridgeline formed longitudinally on the edge is set to not more than +0.7, and a sectional length Ws45 of a wear surface of the edge, inclined at 45 degrees, which contacts the photoreceptor is set to not more than 50 μm.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070212137A1 Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2007-09-13
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