Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including same
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Application No.: US14638425Application Date: 2015-03-04
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Publication No.: US09329533B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Yusuke Mitani , Kenji Sugiura , Yuuji Wada , Kazuki Yogosawa , Junpei Fujita , Seiichi Kogure , Naohiro Kumagai
- Applicant: Yusuke Mitani , Kenji Sugiura , Yuuji Wada , Kazuki Yogosawa , Junpei Fujita , Seiichi Kogure , Naohiro Kumagai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-048670 20140312
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16

Abstract:
A cleaning device includes a plurality of cleaners. The plurality of cleaners includes at least a first cleaner, a second cleaner, and a third cleaner arranged next to each other in a traveling direction of a cleaning target. The first cleaner is disposed at an extreme upstream end of the traveling direction and supplied with a first voltage having a same polarity as a polarity of a normally-charged toner. The cleaners, other than the first cleaner, disposed downstream from the first cleaner, is supplied with a second voltage having a polarity opposite the polarity of the normally-charged toner.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150261137A1 CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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