Patent ID: 7551880

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of image forming units having at least a first image forming unit and a second image forming unit that are adjacently provided to each other, wherein each of said first image forming unit and said second image forming unit includes: an image bearing member; a rotatable charge member that charges said image bearing member; a rotatable developing member that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on said image bearing member; and a cleaning device including a cleaning member for cleaning a surface of said image bearing member and a conductive support member that supports said cleaning member, wherein said conductive support member of said first image forming unit is provided in a direction of a rotation axis of said charge member of said first image forming unit so that at least said conductive support member of said first image forming unit intersects a line segment connected between a rotational center of said charge member of said first image forming unit and a rotational center of said developing member of said second image forming unit, and wherein said conductive support member of said first image forming unit is grounded.