Image heating apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazunari Hatazaki
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Abstract
An image heating apparatus includes: first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for heating a toner image on a recording material; rotatable rubbing member configured to rub the first rotatable member to substantially refresh a surface property of the first rotatable member; an air blowing mechanism, provided with a plurality of openings, configured to blow air toward different positions of the rotatable rubbing member with respect to an axial direction of the rotatable rubbing member; and a moving mechanism configured to reciprocate the air blowing mechanism with respect to the axial direction.
Claims7
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- first and second rotatable members configured to form a nip for heating a toner image on a recording material;
- a rotatable rubbing member configured to rub said first rotatable member to substantially refresh a surface property of said first rotatable member;
- an air blowing mechanism, provided with a plurality of openings, configured to blow air toward different positions of said rotatable rubbing member with respect to an axial direction of said rotatable rubbing member;
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- a moving mechanism configured to reciprocate said air blowing mechanism with respect to the axial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.