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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
May. 08, 2009
Yasuhiro Hayashi, Moriya, JP;
Yasuhiro Hayashi, Moriya, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes a rotatable image heater for heating a recording material, a coil, outside the heater, for generating magnetic flux for heating the heater and having an end outside an end of the heater with respect to the rotational axis direction, a pressor contacting the heater outer surface for forming a nip nipping and conveying the recording material, a metal member for pressing the pressor through the heater and having an end which is located outside the end of the heater and outside an end of the coil with respect to the rotational axis direction, and a magnetic flux confiner disposed inside the heater between the coil and the metal member, for confining the magnetic flux from the coil so as not to extend toward the metal member and having an end located outside the end of the heater with respect to the rotational axis direction.