Patent ID: 7302203

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: (1) an image forming section to form a toner image; (2) an image carrying member being rotatable and to carry the toner image; (3) a transferring section to transfer the toner image from the image carrying member to a recording sheet, and (4) a cleaning section located sequentially after the transferring section in a rotation direction of the image carrying member structured to remove residual toner remaining on the image carrying member after the toner image is transferred to the recording sheet at the transferring section and including: a cleaning blade being in contact with the image carrying member and a toner supplying section located sequentially before the contact point of the cleaning blade and sequentially after the transferring section in the rotating direction of the image carrying member structured to supply toner to the image carrying member at a location sequentially after the transferring section; the toner supplying section including a toner storing section to store toner removed by the cleaning blade and a roller member being in contact with the image carrying member so that the toner supplying section supplies the removed toner to the image carrying member.