Patent ID: 8103207

Claim:
A lubricant application apparatus, comprising: a lubricant application member configured to apply lubricant to a lubricant receiving member moving in a predetermined surface movement direction; an elastic member is configured to contact the lubricant receiving member in a counter direction with respect to the surface movement direction of the lubricant receiving member, and configured to smooth the lubricant applied on the lubricant receiving member, the elastic member being shaped as a blade, the elastic member being in contact with the lubricant receiving member at a contact area of the elastic member, in the counter direction, with a contact angle of 85 degrees or more, the contact angle being defined by an edge face of the elastic member and a tangent line at the contact area, the elastic member being positioned at a downstream side of the surface movement direction of the lubricant receiving member with respect to the contact area of the elastic member.