Patent ID: 8170457

Claim:
A cleaning device for removing adhering matter from a surface of a member subject to cleaning, the cleaning device comprising: a belt-shaped film member arranged in a stretched configuration capable of being endlessly moved in a direction opposite to a surface movement direction of the member subject to cleaning while being in contact with the surface of the member subject to cleaning; a cleaning blade configured to abut on the surface of the member subject to cleaning via the belt-shaped film member at a position where the belt-shaped film member is brought into contact with the member subject to cleaning; and a film member cleaning unit configured to remove adhering matter on a surface of the belt-shaped film member, wherein: the belt-shaped film member is an endless belt-shaped film member capable of moving endlessly, and the film member cleaning unit removes the adhering matter from a surface of the endless belt-shaped film member at a position distant from a position where the endless belt-shaped film member is brought into contact with the member subject to cleaning, the film member cleaning unit includes a film member cleaning blade that is a blade-shaped film member cleaning member configured to abut on the surface of the endless belt-shaped film member to remove the adhering matter from the surface thereof, and nonblade-shaped film member cleaning members having configurations differing from the blade-shaped film member cleaning member, one of which is arranged at a downstream position closest to the position where the endless belt-shaped film member is brought into contact with the member subject to cleaning in a surface movement direction of the endless belt-shaped film member, and the other of which is arranged at an upstream position closest to a position where the film member cleaning blade abuts on the endless belt-shaped film member in the surface movement direction of the endless belt-shaped film member.