Electrophotography – Internal machine environment – Particle or contaminant control
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-01
2011-03-01
Gray, David M (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Internal machine environment
Particle or contaminant control
C015S256510
Reexamination Certificate
active
07899354
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a cleaning device including a cleaning member that cleans a surface of a rotating cylindrical element to be cleaned, and whose length in a longitudinal direction is longer than a length of the maximum operating region of the element to be cleaned, a length of a contact part of the cleaning member at which the cleaning member contacts with the element to be cleaned being shorter than the length in the longitudinal direction of the cleaning member, and the contact part being moved in the longitudinal direction of the element to be cleaned.
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Handa Osamu
Katahira Masahiro
Fuji 'Xerox Co., Ltd.
Gray David M
Hyder G. M.
Morgan & Lewis & Bockius, LLP
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