US 6,983,119 B2 | ||
Image heating apparatus with glass selector | ||
Junichi Nakayama, Chiba (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
Filed on Nov. 26, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/721,469. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 2002-347909 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2002. | ||
Prior Publication US 2004/0151515 A1, Aug. 05, 2004 | ||
Int. Cl. G03G 15/20 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 399—341 | 6 Claims |
1. An image heating apparatus comprising:
a heating member for heating a toner image formed on a recording material;
a plurality of pressure members for pressurizing the heating member to form a nip portion where the recording material is
nipped and transported, in which a pressurizing force is changeable, the pressure members being arranged alone a transport
direction of the recording material;
gloss selecting means for selecting a gloss of an image to be formed; and
pressurizing force selecting means for selecting the pressurizing forces of said pressure members independently of one another
according to the gloss selected by said gloss selecting means
wherein when the gloss selected by the gloss selecting means is made high, the large pressurizing force is selected for a
pressure member of said pressure members positioned on a downstream side in the transport direction of the recording material.
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