Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US12779432Application Date: 2010-05-13
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Publication No.: US08170457B2Publication Date: 2012-05-01
- Inventor: Yuichi Aoyama , Yasuo Katano , Yukimichi Someya , Takuma Nakamura , Tetsurou Sasamoto , Shunichi Abe , Masafumi Yamada
- Applicant: Yuichi Aoyama , Yasuo Katano , Yukimichi Someya , Takuma Nakamura , Tetsurou Sasamoto , Shunichi Abe , Masafumi Yamada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-162607 20090709; JP2010-032371 20100217
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A disclosed cleaning device for removing adhering matter from a surface of a member subject to cleaning includes a belt-shaped film member arranged in a stretched configuration capable of being wound or endlessly move in a direction opposite to a surface movement direction of the member subject to cleaning while being in contact with the surface of the member subject to cleaning, and a cleaning blade configured to abut on the surface of the member subject to cleaning via the belt-shaped film member at a position where the belt-shaped film member is brought into contact with the member subject to cleaning.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110008081A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-01-13
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