IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS: abstract simplified (18297686)

• This abstract for appeared for patent application number 18297686 Titled 'IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS'

Simplified Explanation

The abstract describes an image heating apparatus that is used to heat an image on a recording material. The apparatus includes a tubular film, a heater inside the film, a roller that contacts the film and forms a nip with the heater, and a holder that supports the heater. The holder has an adhesion portion where the heater is attached using an adhesive. The adhesion portion has a surface with a repeating pattern of projections and recesses in the direction of material conveyance and perpendicular to it. The depth of these projections and recesses is between 50 μm and 300 μm.

Original Abstract Submitted

An image heating apparatus includes: a tubular film; a heater disposed in an inner space of the film; a roller that is in contact with the outer surface of the film and forms a nip between the roller and the film together with the heater; and a holder including an adhesion portion to which the heater adheres through an adhesive and supporting the heater. The image heating apparatus heats, using heat of the heater, an image formed on a recording material held and conveyed by the nip in case where the roller rotates. The adhesion portion includes a surface having an uneven shape of projections and recesses repeating in each of a conveyance direction of the recording material and in a longitudinal direction of the heater perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and a depth of the projections and recesses is 50 μm to 300 μm.