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US 2001/0019676 A1Published application
Image heating apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakateru Okubo, Masao Umezawa, Masanori Yamagata
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Abstract
The present invention provides an image heating apparatus that has a movable member, a guide member for guiding a movement of the movable member, and a back up member for forming a nip portion with the guide member via the movable member, wherein a recording material bearing an image at said nip portion is pinched and conveyed, the image on the recording material is heated by a heat from the movable member side, and wherein the guide member has a recess portion in a guide portion different from the nip portion.
Claims13
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a movable member;
- a guide member for guiding a movement of said movable member;
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- a back up member for forming a nip portion with said guide member via said movable member,
- wherein a recording material bearing an image at said nip portion is pinched and conveyed, the image on the recording material is heated by a heat from said movable member side, and
- wherein said guide member has a recess portion in a guide portion different from said nip portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.