Patent ID: 7764917

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a rotatable photosensitive member; charging means, including magnetic particles contacted to said photosensitive member and a magnetic particles carrying member for carrying said magnetic particles, for charging a surface of said photosensitive member; developing means for developing an electrostatic image on said photosensitive member, said developing means including a toner carrying member for carrying toner, the toner carrying member having an end which is inside an end of a magnetic particles carrying region; a transfer member for transferring a toner image from said photosensitive member onto a toner image receiving member; a cleaning blade for removing the toner from said photosensitive member by contacting said photosensitive member at a contact position after a transfer operation of said transfer member, said cleaning blade having an end which is outside the end of the magnetic particles carrying region, wherein said charging means is disposed downstream of the contact position with respect to a rotational direction of said photosensitive member; and a cleaning brush, disposed upstream of the contact position with respect to the rotational direction of said photosensitive member, for removing the toner from said photosensitive member by contacting said photosensitive member, said cleaning brush having an end which is outside the end of the magnetic particles carrying region.