Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including same
A cleaning device including a rotatable cleaning member contacting a rotatable image carrier bearing a toner image to electrostatically remove toner from the image carrier while rotating, and a control unit to control rotation of the cleaning member to satisfy a relation of (60/R)>(L/V) during removal of a toner pattern formed on the image carrier at a predetermined timing and remaining attached to the image carrier without being transferred from the image carrier onto a transfer member using the cleaning member, where R (rpm) is a number of rotations of the cleaning member, L (mm) is a length of the toner pattern in a direction of rotation of the image carrier, and V (mm/s) is a speed of the image carrier.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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Kenji Yoshiki Takaya Akira Yuu Hisashi
Sugiura Hozumi Muraishi Asaoka Sakakibara Kikuchi