| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning device that reliably and smoothly discharges a residual toner to the outside of a cleaning housing without noise, and an image forming apparatus, with a simple configuration at low cost.SOLUTION: A toner crushing wire 30 is arranged in a cleaning housing 25 to extend along the axis of rotation of a cleaning roller 27. The toner crushing wire 30 is shaken along a cleaning housing inner wall 25a facing the peripheral surface of the cleaning roller 27 in non-contact with the inner wall 25a so as to crush, with the toner crushing wire 30, a residual toner scraped off from the peripheral surface of a photoreceptor drum 11 by a cleaning blade 26. |
