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Pressure applying rotatable member, having a porous elastic layer with greater thermal conductivities in the axial and circumferential directions than in the thickness direction, and image heating apparatus having the same

US9268273B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · JP

Inventors

Yasuhiro Miyahara · Tokyo, JP
Shigeaki Takada · Abiko, JP
Toshinori Nakayama · Kashiwa, JP
Daigo Matsuura · Toride, JP
Naoki Akiyama · Kawasaki, JP
Shuichi Tamura · Tokyo, JP
Yutaka Arai · Tokyo, JP
Jun Miura · Yokohama, JP
Takeshi Suzuki · Fujioka, JP
Katsuhisa Matsunaka · Inagi, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 9, 2014
Grant date	Feb 23, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 9, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G2215/2029
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A pressing rotatable member for use with an image heating apparatus including a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer, wherein the elastic layer has a thermal conductivity in an axial direction thereof and a thermal conductivity in a circumferential direction thereof which are not less than 6-times and not more than 900-times a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction thereof.

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