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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2003
Applicants:
Akihito Kanamori, Shizuoka, JP;
Satoru Izawa, Shizuoka, JP;
Shinji Hashiguchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G015/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image heating apparatus has a heating member, a flexible sleeve, a guide member, a flange member, and a pressure member forming a nip part to nip and convey the heating member and the recording material through the sleeve. In this structure, in a recording material movement direction, a sliding-rubbing part of the flange member on a downstream side of the nip part has a shape to project the sleeve toward the downstream side. Alternately, the guide member may have a plurality of ribs on both an upstream side and downstream side of the nip.