Harness, Dickey & Pierce
Cleaning blade, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge
A cleaning blade includes a blade member formed of a strip-shaped rubber material and having a leading-edge ridge line portion to contact a moving surface of a cleaning target member and remove adhering matter from the surface of the cleaning target member. The blade member has a Martens hardness of 1.0 N/mm2 or more in a vicinity of the leading-edge ridge line portion measured from an opposing surface of the blade member, the opposing surface including the leading-edge ridge line portion and opposing the cleaning target member, or measured from a leading-edge surface of the blade member, the leading-edge surface including the leading-edge ridge line portion and disposed adjacent to the opposing surface of the blade member.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
G
G03G
inventional
Kazuhiko Hisashi Takatsugu Takaaki
Watanabe Kikuchi Fujishiro Tawada