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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Ogawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Takashi Narahara, Mishima, JP;
Toru Imaizumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuhito Minamishima, Odawara, JP;
Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Yokohama, JP;
Masashi Tanaka, Kawasaki, JP;
Kensuke Umeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording material includes a cylindrical film, a heater configured to make contact with the film, the heater including a substrate and a heat generation resistor formed on the substrate, and a heat conduction member configured to make contact with a surface of the heater opposite to a surface thereof being in contact with the film, the heat conduction member having a higher thermal conductivity than that of the substrate, and being divided into parts in a generatrix direction of the film. The toner image formed on the recording material is fixed on the recording material by using heat of the film, and one of the parts of the heat conduction member is configured to make contact with the heater continuously from a center to an end of a heat generation region of the heater in the generatrix direction.