Patent ID: 7447476
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A cleaning unit comprising: an image support member cleaning member contacting an image support member on which an image is formed with liquid developer, and being configured to remove liquid developer attached to the image support member; an endless traveling belt traveling via the vicinity of the contact point between the image support member and the image support member cleaning member, and contacting liquid developer stored in the cleaning unit; and a belt cleaning member contacting the traveling belt, being arranged on a portion of the endless traveling belt being between a point downstream of the contact point between the traveling belt and liquid developer stored in the cleaning unit and a point upstream of the point at which the traveling belt passes the contact point between the image support member and the image support member cleaning member in the traveling direction of the traveling belt, and configured to remove liquid developer attached to the traveling belt, the endless traveling belt contacting the image support member at a portion closer to the image support cleaning member than to a portion at which the endless traveling belt contacts the belt cleaning member.