Image forming apparatus

Details Image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus

2011-03-01

2011-03-01

Meier, Stephen D (Department: 2853)

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Electric marking apparatus or processes

Electrostatic

Reexamination Certificate

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07898559

ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit having a light transmitting portion, the cleaning mechanism that includes a cleaning rod with a pad at a front end portion thereof to be capable of cleaning a surface of the light transmitting portion by sliding on the light transmitting portion, and a retaining mechanism that retains the cleaning rod slidably in a longitudinal direction of the light transmitting portion, and that retains the pad positioned above the optical scanning unit and spaced apart from the optical scanning unit in a state where the cleaning rod is at an insertion completed position.

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patent: 09-080875 (1997-03-01), None
patent: A-2001-343876 (2001-12-01), None
patent: A-2004-17607 (2004-01-01), None

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