Image heating apparatus with flexible sleeve and flange...

Details Image heating apparatus with flexible sleeve and flange... Image heating apparatus with flexible sleeve and flange...

2005-09-13

2005-09-13

Beatty, Robert (Department: 2852)

Electrophotography

Image formation

Fixing

C219S216000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06944420

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.

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