Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus
There is provided a pre-cleaning brush roller being a pre-cleaning member which is disposed on an upstream of a normally-charged-toner cleaning brush roller and an oppositely-charged-toner cleaning brush roller in a surface moving direction of an intermediate transfer belt, is applied with a voltage having a polarity opposite to a normal charge polarity of toner, and electrostatically removes the toner having the normal charge polarity.
Ricoh Company, Limited
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Osamu Hisashi Kenji Yuu Naomi Yoshiki
Naruse Kikuchi Sugiura Sakakibara Sugimoto Hozumi