Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Komiyama

Shigeaki Takada

Daigo Matsuura

Ikuo Nakamoto

Kazuhiro Hasegawa

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Nobuaki Hara

Keigo Kaji

Makoto Jinzai

Shinichiro Hosoi

Youichi Chikugo

Junichi Moteki

Yoshikuni Ito

Seiichiro Kameda

An image heating apparatus includes a first belt contactable to an image on a recording material to heat the image; a second belt for forming a nip with the first belt; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt in the nip; a second pressing pad for pressing the second belt toward the first pressing pad, wherein the first pressing pad has a surface roughness Rz of not more than 20 &#x3bc;m, and the second pressing pad has a surface roughness Rz of 50-300 &#x3bc;m.

Image heating apparatus

An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable heating member configured to heat an image on a recording medium at a nip, driving means configured to drive the heating member, an endless belt configured to form the nip with the heating member, and a driving roller configured to drive the endless belt. In the image heating apparatus, the following expressions are satisfied:&#x3bc;2&#x3c;&#x3bc;10.005&#x3c;&#x3bc;2&#x3c;0.3V1&#x3c;V2where &#x3bc;is a friction coefficient between the endless belt and the driving roller, &#x3bc;is a friction coefficient between the heating member and the endless belt, Vis a peripheral speed of the heating member, and Vis a peripheral speed of the driving roller.

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Kashiwa, Japan

Hiroshi Komiyama