摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning blade that reduces the amount of toner scraped off by the cleaning blade, a cleaning device, and an image forming apparatus.SOLUTION: A cleaning blade 5K11 of the present invention has an elastic body member E, comes into contact with an image carrier 1K with an edge part EE of the elastic body member E, and rubs to clean the surface of the image carrier 1K. The cleaning blade 5K11 has at least one holes for spraying air to a contact part with the image carrier 1K toward the upstream in a direction of rotation of the image carrier 1K, on one surface of the elastic body member 1K opposing to the image carrier 1K. |