Patent ID: 7817951

Claim:
A cleaning member for cleaning a developer remaining on an outer peripheral surface of a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed developer image formed on a recording medium thereto by heating under pressure, comprising: a mesh portion comprising a heat resistant wire, the mesh portion comprising a predetermined mesh in at least an area abutting the fixing roller of the cleaning member, wherein when the surface of the fixing roller is formed of a material having resiliency, the wire comprises a material having a higher hardness than a surface hardness of the fixing roller, wherein, when the surface of the fixing roller is formed of a material haying no resiliency, the wire comprises a material haying a lower hardness than a surface hardness of the fixing roller, wherein the mesh portion is arranged whereby a plurality of wires comprising the mesh portion come into contact with the fixing roller in a direction cutting across a rotational direction of the fixing roller, and wherein the mesh portion is constructed so that the mesh size of the area on a downstream side of a rotational direction of the fixing roller is different from the mesh size of the area on an upstream side of the rotational direction of the fixing roller.