US 12,222,669 B2
Image formation apparatus including cleaning member to remove roller adherents
Toshiyuki Totsuka, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/505,793.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-185556 (JP), filed on Nov. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0168428 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/0011 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0105 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00679 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1654 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1687 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image formation apparatus comprising:
an apparatus main body including an image formation unit;
a roller attached to the apparatus main body and configured to convey a medium; and
a pivot member provided pivotable about a rotation axis between a closed position and an open position with respect to the apparatus main body, wherein
the pivot member includes:
a cleaning member that is in contact with the roller to thereby remove adherents adhered to the roller from the roller in a state where the pivot member is in the closed position;
a first storage section spaced apart from a contact position between the cleaning member and the roller and provided to accommodate the adherents removed by the cleaning member; and
a second storage section that is provided communicating with the first storage section through an opening and configured to accommodate therein the removed adherents, wherein
the pivot member is configured such that the removed adherents that is accommodated in the first storage section moves from the first storage section to the second storage section when the pivot member pivots from the closed position to the open position, and
the image formation apparatus further comprises a restriction portion that restricts movement of the removed adherents from the second storage section to the first storage section through the opening.