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Title:
IMAGE FORMING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001265187
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an image forming device equipped with a cleaning unit, whose cost is low, whose cleaning performance is high and which has a compact and simple structure.

A cleaning member 11 consisting of a fur brush and a bias roller or the like and a contact electrifying member 14, consisting of a metallic roller or the like of a cleaning unit 10 are disposed in one cleaning unit case 15. Thus, the members 11 and 14 are simultaneously made to contact with/ separate from an intermediate transfer belt 16, functioning as an intermediate transfer body by one contact/separation mechanism, and the structure of the intermediate transfer belt cleaning unit 10 is simplified. Then, many of the component parts of a driving system for driving the members 11 and 14 and a control system can be used in common, so that the driving torque of the contact/separation mechanism is made lower and the device becomes advantageous also in terms of the design of a control circuit than in the case the members 11 and 14 are disposed individually.


Inventors:
NAKAJIMA AKIYO
Application Number:
JP2000074652A
Publication Date:
September 28, 2001
Filing Date:
March 16, 2000
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
RICOH KK
International Classes:
G03G15/00; G03G21/10; G03G15/16; (IPC1-7): G03G21/10; G03G15/00; G03G15/16
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kuroda Toshi



 
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