Back to results
US 6,608,976 B2Granted
Image heating apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHitoshi Nishitani, Naoki Nakamura
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An image heating apparatus including a heater, a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of the heater, a supporting member for supporting the temperature detecting element, and a biasing member for biasing the supporting member toward the heater. The biasing member biases a surface of the supporting member opposite to the surface in which the temperature detecting element is provided.
Claims10
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a heater;
- a heater supporting member for supporting said heater;
- a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of said heater;
- a temperature detecting element supporting member for supporting said temperature detecting element;
- and
- a spiral shaped spring for biasing said temperature detecting element supporting member toward said heater, said spring biasing a surface of said temperature detecting element supporting member opposite to a surface in which said temperature detecting element is provided,
- wherein said heater supporting member has a projection entering a space inside said spring.
4 more elements
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a heater;
- a heater supporting member for supporting said heater, said heater supporting member being elongated along a lengthwise direction of said heater;
- a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of said heater;
- a temperature detecting element supporting member for supporting said temperature detecting element;
- and
- a biasing member for biasing said temperature detecting element supporting member toward said heater, said biasing member biasing a surface of said temperature detecting element supporting member opposite to a surface in which said temperature detecting element is provided,
- wherein in the lengthwise direction of said heater;
- a biasing position of said biasing member is substantially the same as a position for positioning said temperature detecting element supporting member and said heater supporting member in the lengthwise direction.
5 more elements
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a heater;
- a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of said heater;
- a temperature detecting element supporting member for supporting said temperature detecting element;
- and
- a biasing member for biasing said temperature detecting element supporting member toward said heater,
- wherein said temperature detecting element supporting member has first and second conductors of which first ends are connected to lead portions of said temperature detecting element and of which second ends opposite to the first ends are connected to jacketed leads, and a majority of portions of said first and second conductors except for the first ends and the second ends are covered by a resinous main body of said temperature detecting element supporting member.
3 more elements
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a heater;
- a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of said heater;
- a temperature detecting element supporting member for supporting said temperature detecting element;
- and
- a biasing member for biasing said temperature detecting element supporting member toward said heater,
- wherein said temperature detecting element supporting member has first and second conductors of which first ends are connected to lead portions of said temperature detecting element and of which second ends opposite to the first ends are connected to jacketed leads, and a majority of portions of said first and second conductors except for the first ends, the second ends, and side surfaces are covered by a resinous main body of said temperature detecting element supporting member.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.