Patent ID: 8269812

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier; an exposure head that is provided along a longitudinal direction of the image carrier, and exposes the image carrier; a housing that holds the exposure head; an opening portion that is formed in the housing, wherein the exposure head and the image carrier face each other, and the opening portion is provided at an end portion in a longitudinal direction of a space in which the exposure head and the image carrier face each other; a receiving portion that is provided in the housing; a cleaning member comprising: a body portion; a cleaning portion that cleans a light-emitting face of the exposure head by moving while keeping in contract with the light-emitting face; a protection portion that is attached on a surface of the body portion in a way that the protection portion faces the image carrier; and a guiding portion that comes in contact with the receiving portion and guides the cleaning portion toward a space between the image carrier and the exposure head when the cleaning portion is inserted into an interior of the housing through the opening portion, wherein the protection portion contacts with a base part of the image carrier when the cleaning portion cleans the light-emitting face of the exposure head.