Patent ID: 7713356

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus comprising a cleaning layer having substantially no tackiness, a Vickers hardness of not lower than 10 and having a tensile modulus of not lower than 10 N/mm 2 as determined according to JIS K7127 when applied to a foreign matter in an equipment to be cleaned; a base material for supporting the cleaning layer on one side thereof; and an ordinary adhesive layer provided on the other side of said base material; wherein the adhesive layer attaches a conveying member to the base material so that an outer surface of the conveying member comprises an outer surface of the cleaning apparatus opposite the cleaning layer; and wherein the outer surface of the conveying member has substantially no tackiness so that the tackiness of both the cleaning layer and the outer surface of the cleaning apparatus opposite the cleaning layer does not change when the cleaning layer is applied to the foreign matter in the equipment to be cleaned; and wherein the conveying member is a semiconductor.