Patent ID: 7826786

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a latent image carrier that is rotatable and carries a latent image; a cleaning blade that cleans toner remaining on a cleaning area on the latent image carrier; a lubricant; a lubricant applying brush roller that scrapes off the lubricant and applies scraped lubricant to the latent image carrier; and a lubricant applying blade arranged on a downstream side of an applying apparatus of the cleaning blade with respect to direction of rotation of the latent image carrier, and that applies a lubricant on the latent image carrier, wherein a lubricant applying area overlaps the cleaning area of the cleaning blade, and wherein a width of the lubricant is less than a width of the brush roller and the width of the brush roller is less than a width of the lubricant applying blade in contact with the latent image carrier in a longitudinal direction thereof in the image forming apparatus.