Electrostatic recording apparatus and cleaning blade

Details Electrostatic recording apparatus and cleaning blade Electrostatic recording apparatus and cleaning blade

1998-08-25

2000-03-28

Beatty, Robert

Electrophotography

Cleaning of imaging surface

Blade

G03G 2100

Patent

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06044245&

ABSTRACT:
In an electrostatic recording apparatus equipped with an image carrying member having a surface where there is provided an image forming region on which the toner image is formed and the other region located next to the image forming region in the axial direction on the surface, a cleaning blade made of an elastic material comes in contact with the surface and to clean toner remaining on the surface after the toner image is transferred. The cleaning blade comes in contact with the image forming region and the other region and an edge of a portion of the cleaning blade substantially coming in contact with the other region is hardened by heat.

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Patent Abstracts of Japan, Publication #62100781, Publication date: Nov. 5, 1987.
Patent Abstracts of Japan, Publication #06332350, Publication date: Feb. 12, 1994.
Patent Abstracts of Japan (1 pg), Publication #01184218 (Abstract only).

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