US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 14 for "Cleaning device, image holding body unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,419, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cleaning device, image holding body unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yu Tsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning device, for cleaning an image holding body that rotates while holding a toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image holding body, includes: a scraping member that scrapes toner sticking to the outer circumferential surface of the image holding body in a rotating state by a distal end of the scraping member being in contact with, in the outer circumferential surface, in a region in ...