US 2003/0077092 A1Published application

Image heating apparatus

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKenichi Ogawa, Michihito Yamazaki, Ken Murooka, Noriaki Tanaka, Noriyuki Ito, Yusuke Nakazono, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Akira Kato, Hisashi Nakahara, Satoshi Nishida

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Abstract

The image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, comprising a sliding member and a supporting member for holding the sliding member and a pressure member which forms a nip part, wherein a portion of said supporting member which forms the nip part projects from a surface of the sliding member on the nip part side. The image heating apparatus can suppress a decrease in durability of a flexible rotary body.

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Dependent claims

An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, comprising:

a sliding member;
a supporting member for holding said sliding member;
a pressure member which forms a nip part for clamping and conveying the recording material in cooperation with said sliding member;
and
a flexible rotary body for rotating while being sandwiched at the nip part,
wherein an area of the nip part extends from an area defined by said sliding member and said pressure member to an area defined by said pressure member and said supporting member on an upstream side of said rotary body in a rotational direction, and
a portion of said supporting member which forms the nip part projects from a surface of said sliding member on the nip part side.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.