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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160486 | Blade for electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing the same A blade for an electrophotographic apparatus is provided which is prevented from turning up, achieves wear resistance, and has excellent cleaning properties. The blade is composed of a support member and a blade member formed of a thermosetting polyurethane elastome... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8135328 | Cleaning blade A cleaning blade is provided which does not cause contamination of other parts even when being stored for a long period of time in a high temperature and high humidity environment. The cleaning blade is set in an image forming apparatus employing an electrostatic tr... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131199 | Cleaning device for image forming apparatus, and process cartridge having cleaning device A cleaning device for cleaning a surface moving member such as an image carrier of an image forming apparatus, and a process cartridge having the cleaning device. The cleaning device has a cleaning member that is brought into uniform abutment against the surface mov... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126385 | Image forming mechanism and image forming device There is provided an image forming mechanism including: an image carrier containing a lubricant in a photosensitive layer that is formed on a surface of the image carrier, and on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing section developing the elec... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8095060 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts an image carrier and cleans residual toner remaining on the image carrier; a toner pool forming member that is disposed on an upstream side of the cleaning blade in a rotational direction of the image carrier... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086162 | Cleaning blade and image forming apparatus A cleaning blade is disposed in an abutting relation with an image bearing body and configured to remove residual developer material from the image bearing body. The cleaning blade has a tan δ peak temperature equal to or higher than 8.6° C. and lower than 45° C.... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068779 | Coated-core cleaner blades A coated-core cleaner blade has a core comprising a first material and a coating surrounding the core. The coating comprises a second material that is different than the first material. Further, the core (first material) is rigid compared to the coating (second mate... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055178 | Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus having a pressing member which contacts an elastic blade A cleaning device capable of reducing the apparatus and prolonging the service life of the cleaning blade is disclosed. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade including an elastic blade, a pressing member disposed near the downstream side of the image carrier... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8027628 | Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A blade, including: a cut surface provided by obliquely cutting a part of a tip surface to set an angle forming a tip ridge portion of the blade as an obtuse angle, wherein the tip ridge portion is configured to be pressed to a surface to be cleaned. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023878 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts a surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the member to be cleaned, and that includes multiple layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade shifts in a... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7970335 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a blade disposed so as to contact an image bearing body that bears a developer image. The blade scrapes off a developer adhering to the image bearing body. The blade has an edge portion including first and second surfaces, and is configure... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965971 | Blades, printing apparatuses, replaceable cartridges and methods of treating substances on surfaces Blades, printing apparatuses, replaceable cartridges and methods of treating substances on surfaces are disclosed. An embodiment of a blade for treating a substance on a surface of a component includes a body having a free end portion with a surface, and which is co... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962085 | Metal blade cleaning of an amorphous silicon receptor This is a shim cleaning blade for use in a novel cleaning station of an electrophotographic marking system having an a-Si photoconductive surface. The cleaning blade is preferably made from stainless steel but other metals can be used if suitable. The blade has a th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7937035 | Image forming apparatus including cleaning unit provided with cleaning member having free end facing upward and friction reducing unit, and image forming method An image forming apparatus including: a rotatable image-carrier; a charging unit that contacts and charges a surface of the image-carrier; an exposing unit that exposes the surface and forms a latent-image; a developing unit that develops the latent-image with a dev... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937034 | Blade engagement apparatus for image forming machines A blade engagement apparatus moving blades into working positions in engagement with an image forming device moving surface for cleaning and/or metering release agent onto the surface. The blade engagement apparatus includes a pair of spaced apart links having slots... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7907884 | Cleaning member and image forming apparatus A cleaning member is elastically forced on a bearing surface, for cleaning off particles from the bearing surface by a movement of the bearing surface relative to the cleaning member. In particular, the cleaning member has first and second portions capable of formin... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904013 | Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus that is provided with an intermediate transfer member that has a hard releasing layer formed on the surface thereof, supports a toner image primary-transferred onto the hard releasing layer from a latent-image supporting member, and second... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899384 | Apparatus and method of reducing charge roller contamination An image forming equipment, e.g., a laser printer includes a photoconductive (PC) drum and an associated charge roller and incorporates a conductive polymer cleaner blade having an electrical potential to sufficiently charge contamination particles on the PC drum to... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7848694 | Image forming device, processing unit, and image forming method An image forming device including toner image forming means that forms toner images on the surface of an image carrier, transfer means that transfers the toner images on the surface of the image carrier onto a transfer member, and a plate shaped cleaning blade. The ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7817955 | Image forming apparatus for securing good cleaning performance without cleaning blade abrasion An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, a charging member to charge a surface of the image bearing member, an irradiation member to irradiate the image bearing member to write the latent electrostatic image,... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817956 | Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus A cleaning blade which is brought into contact with a peripheral surface of a photoreceptor drum of an image-forming apparatus to remove toner which remains on the peripheral surface of the photoreceptor drum. In a dynamic state in which the cleaning blade contacts ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813690 | Cleaning device A cleaning device removes a toner attached to an image carrier of an electrophotographic-type image forming apparatus. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade, a housing and a block member. The cleaning blade is in contact with a surface of the image carrier t... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809320 | Image forming apparatus including a toner guide member An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a guide member 140 positioned so as to be above a blade 60 in a casing 9 of a cleaning section 6. The guide member 140 guides the toner 8, which has been scraped f... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805103 | Cleaning blade for removing toner A cleaning blade member includes a cleaning layer and an elastic layer provided on the cleaning layer's back surface. Both are formed of a polyurethane member produced through curing and molding a castable polyurethane composition, the cleaning layer containing a lo... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796934 | Image forming method using cleaning blade and image forming apparatus with cleaning blade An image forming method in which an image carrier that has a surface layer containing a resin having a crosslinking structure is used; a material of a portion of the cleaning blade which portion contacts the surface of the image carrier satisfies 3.92≦M≦29.42, 0... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7778585 | Electrophotographic cleaning blade, process for producing electrophotographic cleaning blade, and electrophotographic apparatus An electrophotographic cleaning blade is provided which is free of blade turning-up coming from both end portions of the blade in its lengthwise direction. The cleaning blade having a blade formed of a polyurethane resin, which is to come into touch with the surface... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773934 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge is detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes an image bearing member, a developing member for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image bearing member and a cleaning member ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769337 | Image forming method An image forming method using a cleaning blade which prevents the spherical toner to pass through a gap between the blade and a photosensitive member and which has durability so as to be less worn away or chipped, wherein it is possible to maintain cleaning performa... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7764917 | Image forming apparatus including a photosensitive member, a cleaning blade, and a cleaning brush An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning blade for removing toner from a rotatable photosensitive member by contacting the photosensitive member at a contact position after a transfer operation of a transfer member. The cleaning blade has an end which is outsi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764918 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus A cleaning device includes a first cleaning portion provided at a position where a belt transfer body is moved after transfer, and includes a second cleaning portion having a cleaning member which contacts the belt transfer body, which is located at an end of the be... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7720426 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same A cleaning device excellent in cleaning performance and durability and an image forming apparatus using the same are provided. The cleaning device includes an edge part coming into contact with the surface of the image carrier; the edge part is made of an elastic ex... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715778 | Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus 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 thermosett... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711307 | Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including same A cleaning device and a blade which is provided in the cleaning device and which has an edge portion to be pressed against a surface of a photoreceptor, so as to scrape toner are arranged so that: the blade includes (a) a blade main body constituting a main body por... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697879 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge An electrophotographic image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, includes: an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photoconductive layer on a rigid base; an exposure device forming a latent image on the electrophotographic photose... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7630678 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge is detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes an image bearing member, a developing member for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image bearing member and a cleaning member ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620357 | Image forming apparatus with obtuse-edge cleaning blade An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a cleaning brush positioned upstream of a blade nip in the direction of movement of the surface of a photoconductive drum. To prevent toner from accumulating at the blade nip, the surface of the photocondu... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610008 | Cleaning device, and process unit and image forming apparatus including the cleaning device A cleaning device including an elastic blade whose tip is contacted with a surface of a rotating member in such a manner as to counter the rotated member to remove particles of a toner on the rotated member; and a holder configured to support the elastic blade, wher... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7610007 | Cleaning blade, and cleaning apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus using the same The present invention provides a cleaning blade for cleaning a surface of an object to be cleaned, comprising: a contact portion that contacts the surface of the object for cleaning, the contact portion being made of a material sat... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7587163 | Cleaning blade edge stiffener to improve blade tucking robustness This is a cleaning blade useful in an electrophotographic marking system. Under certain conditions, cleaning blades will tuck when the blade continuously contacts a photoconductive surface of this marking system. This tucking causes abrading and damage to the moving... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7551884 | Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus The cleaning apparatus according to the invention is concerned with a cleaning apparatus provided with a cleaning blade which removes a developer remaining on the surface of an image carrier, which is characterized in that the cleaning blade is made of a resinous ma... | 06/23/2009 |
