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Cleaning member, image forming apparatus provided with a cleaning blade member, and process cartridge detachably attachable on the image forming apparatus

US6128462A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 30, 1999
Grant dateOct 3, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G21/0017
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A cartridge detachably attachable on an image forming apparatus a photosensitive member as an image bearing member and a cleaning blade member polycarbonate resin having a viscosity average molecular weight of 1.5.times.10.sup.4 or less is blended with the surface layer of the image bearing member, and the peak value of tan .delta. of the dynamic viscoelastic characteristic of the cleaning blade member appears at 12.degree. C. or less.

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