CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To impart sufficient vibration for removing residual toner flocculated and grown to a cleaning blade without causing a remarkable increase in costs and also to prevent the passing-through of the residual toner when vibration is inputted to the cleaning blade. SOLUTION: A cleaning device 17 to remove the toner stuck to a photoreceptive drum 11 possesses the cleaning blade 43 to remove the toner stuck to the drum 11 by abutting on the photoreceptive drum 11, an exciting means 51 provided separately from the cleaning blade 43 and to vibrate the cleaning blade 43 and a control circuit 55 to control the exciting means 51, and the exciting means 51 to vibrate the cleaning blade 43 is operated when the photoreceptive drum 11 is stopped.