CLEANING ROD, LENS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• Main Author: ENDO JOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.10.2013
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique effective for cleaning of a long material in a low-height space, and capable of achieving miniaturization and cost reduction.SOLUTION: A turning member comprises an axis part and the first and second cleaning parts. One of the cleaning parts can wipe the foreign matters on a cleaning object and the other can sweep the same. A retaining member has a hole into which the axis part is inserted and retains the turning member turnably. When the retaining member slide-moves to a first direction toward the cleaning object, the first cleaning part falls on the cleaning object, the turning member turns and the cleaning part runs on the cleaning object. When the retaining member moves further, the second cleaning part runs on the object. When moving furthermore, wiping and sweeping of the foreign matter on the cleaning object are performed by the first and second cleaning parts while both cleaning parts come into abutment with the cleaning object.