Patent ID: 7505729

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus comprising: a housing; a rotating member that removes toner attached to a surface of an image carrying body by making contact with the image carrying body; a scraper that scrapes toner off a surface of the rotating member; a discharging member that discharges the toner scraped off the rotating member outside the housing; a partition wall that supports the scraper, has openings in part thereof, and partitions a space inside the housing into a space formed on an upstream side of the rotating member in a rotation direction of the image carrying body and a space in which the discharging member is provided; and an opening/closing member that is attached to each opening of the partition wall so as to permit toner to move through the opening only in a direction toward the discharging member, wherein the discharging member and the rotating member are disposed so as to be level with each other, or the discharging member is disposed above a level of the rotating member.