Patent ID: 7546063

Claim:
An image carrying member cartridge, comprising: an image carrying member; a charging device disposed along an axial direction of the image carrying member for charging the image carrying member; a cleaning member disposed below the charging device and along the axial direction of the image carrying member, wherein the cleaning member is arranged to remove adherents from the image carrying member; a transfer roller disposed facing the image carrying member; and a cartridge housing, wherein the image carrying member, the charging device, the transfer roller, and the cleaning member are accommodated within the cartridge housing, wherein the cartridge housing includes a sheet outlet below the cleaning member to discharge therefrom a recording medium, wherein ends of the cleaning member in the axial direction of the image carrying member are located closer to a center of the image carrying member in the axial direction thereof as compared with ends of an opening of the sheet outlet in the axial direction of the image carrying member so as to not completely obstruct a space extending from the charging device to the sheet outlet along a surface of the image carrying member.