Fixing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshisuke Kasuya, Hideki Ohta
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Abstract
A fixing apparatus includes a heater; a heater holding member for holding the heater; a temperature sensor, provided in contact with the heater through a hole provided in the heater holding member, for detecting a temperature of the heater; a holder for holding the sensor; and an urging member, provided between the sensor and the holder, for urging the sensor toward the heater, wherein the heater holding member includes a positioning portion for determining a position of the holder with respect to an urging direction of the urging member, and wherein the positioning portion is disposed at a position outside of a position of the sensor with respect to a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the heater.
Claims8
A fixing apparatus comprising:
- a heater;
- a heater holding member for holding said heater;
- a temperature sensor, provided in contact with said heater through a hole provided in said heater holding member, for detecting a temperature of said heater;
- a sensor holding member for holding said temperature sensor;
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- an urging member, provided between said temperature sensor and said sensor holding member, for urging said temperature sensor toward said heater,
- wherein said heater holding member includes a positioning portion for determining a position of said sensor holding member with respect to an urging direction of said urging member, and
- wherein said positioning portion is disposed at a position outside of a position of said temperature sensor with respect to a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said heater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.