Patent ID: 7428395

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier; latent image forming means for forming an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier; developing means for developing the electrostatic latent image to obtain a toner image and performing a cleaning at the same time; transferring means for transferring the toner image formed on the image carriers onto a recording medium; a brush means to disturb a remaining toner on the image carrier by contacting an end of the brush means with the surfaces of the image carrier after passing the transferring means; and position adjusting means for adjusting a displacement of the brush means to the surfaces of the image carrier so as to position the end of the brush means to a first position and a second position to the surfaces of the image carrier, wherein the position adjusting means displaces the brush means movably in a contacting direction to the image carrier surface and movably in an axial direction of the image carrier and the remaining toner which was disturbed by the brush means is recovered into the developing means, the recovery of the remaining toner constitutes the cleaning.