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US 7,398,028 B2Granted
Image heating apparatus including a cooling unit adapted to cool a heating member
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJun Nakagaki
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Abstract
In an image heating apparatus including a rotatable heating roller to heat an image on a recording material at a nip part, and a cooling unit to cool the rotatable heating roller, the cooling unit includes a pipe that forms a cooling loop for circulating cooling fluid, and a heat transmission member provided slidably and rotatably around the pipe.
Claims10
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable heating member adapted to heat an image on a recording material at a nip portion;
- and
- a cooling unit adapted to cool the heating member, the cooling unit including a pipe through which fluid circulates, and a cooling member slidably and rotatably disposed around the pipe.
An image heating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable heating member configured to heat an image formed on a recording material at a nip portion;
- and
- a cooling unit adapted to cool the heating member, the cooling unit including a pipe through which a cooling medium circulates, and a cooling member slidably and rotatably disposed around the pipe,
- wherein the pipe is configured to be adjustably positioned proximate, in a parallel orientation, adjacent the rotatable heating member,
- wherein the cooling member is adjustably configured to be in contact with an outer surface of the rotatable heating member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.