| US 7,519,320 B2 | ||
| Image heating apparatus in which heater for heating heat roller is outside heat roller | ||
| Daisuke Aoki, Numazu (Japan); Satoshi Nishida, Numazu (Japan); and Masao Amano, Susono (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 25, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/552,708. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-317222 (JP), filed on Oct. 31, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0098465 A1, May 03, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 399—328 [399/122] | 5 Claims |

| 1. An image heating apparatus comprising:
a rotatable member contactable to a recording material for carrying an image;
a heating member contacted to an outer surface of said rotatable member to heat said rotatable member;
a holding member for holding said heating member; and
an urging member for urging said holding member to contact said heating member to said rotatable member,
wherein said holding member is rotatable relative to said apparatus about an axis parallel with a generating line of said
rotatable member.
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