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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2008
Masatsugu Toyonori, Mishima, JP;
Tomohito Ishida, Suntou-gun, JP;
Tetsuya Atsumi, Susono, JP;
Isami Itoh, Mishima, JP;
Masatsugu Toyonori, Mishima, JP;
Tomohito Ishida, Suntou-gun, JP;
Tetsuya Atsumi, Susono, JP;
Isami Itoh, Mishima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image heating apparatus for allowing a surface of a heated toner image borne on a recording material to be glossed without generating a batter in the heated toner image is provided. In an image heating apparatus () including heating means (and) for heating an unfixed toner image (ta) borne on a recording material (P) and pressure means (and) for pressurizing an unfixed toner image (tb) heated by the heating means to gloss a surface of the unfixed toner image, the pressure means includes: pressure force changing means (L andR) for changing a pressure force when the pressure means pressurizes the unfixed toner image; temperature detecting means (and) for detecting a temperature of the pressure means; and pressurization control means (). The pressurization control means controls the pressure changing means according to temperature information of the temperature detecting means to change the pressure force of the pressure means before the pressure means pressurizes the unfixed toner image.