Cleaning blade, image forming apparatus and process cartridge
US8897690B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 12, 2013 |
| Grant date | Nov 25, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 2, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2215/0132
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A cleaning blade, including a strip-shaped elastic blade to contact the surface of a member to be cleaned, traveling on an edge line of the elastic blade, to remove a powder from the surface thereof, wherein the edge line of the elastic blade is impregnated with an ultraviolet curable resin including a fluorinated acrylic monomer, a surface layer harder than the elastic blade is formed on each of an under surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the under surface and facing the member, and an apical surface thereof, having the edge line as one line of the apical surface and being parallel to a direction of the thickness thereof, and the apical surface is impregnated with the ultraviolet curable resin at a depth of from 50 to 150 μm and the under surface is impregnated therewith at a depth of from 20 to 100 μm.
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