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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1989
Michiaki Endoh, Yokohama, JP;
Hironobu Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing apparatus includes rotatable member contactable to a material carrying a toner image to fix the toner image thereon, a first contacting member in sliding contact with a surface of the rotatable member, the first contacting member is reciprocable in a direction of a generating line of the rotatable member, a second contacting member in sliding contact with the surface of the rotatable member at a position different from the first contacting member in a rotational direction, the second contacting member being reciprocable in a direction of generating line of the rotatable member, wherein the first contacting member having a reciprocable movable range without overlapping with a reciprocable movable range of the second contacting member.