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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2003
Masatake Usui, Susono, JP;
Hideyuki Yano, Mishima, JP;
Kenya Ogawa, Mishima, JP;
Katsuhiko Oba, Odawara, JP;
Shunichi Ebihara, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Masatake Usui, Susono, JP;
Hideyuki Yano, Mishima, JP;
Kenya Ogawa, Mishima, JP;
Katsuhiko Oba, Odawara, JP;
Shunichi Ebihara, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image heating apparatus has a flexible rotatable member; a slidable member for sliding contact with an inner surface of the rotatable member; a back-up member for forming a nip with the slidable member with the rotatable member interposed therebetween, wherein a projection extended along a longitudinal direction of the rotatable member, and provided on such a portion of a sliding surface of the slidable member as is downstream of a center of the sliding surface with respect to a recording material feeding direction in which the recording material is fed, and wherein the projection is effective to provide a maximum pressure in a distribution, with respect to the recording material feeding direction, of pressure applied to the nip.