Patent ID: 9501012
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material, the fixing apparatus comprising: a cylindrical film; a heater configured to make contact with the film, the heater including a substrate and a heat generation resistor formed on the substrate; and a plurality of heat conduction members configured to make contact with a surface of the heater opposite to a surface of the heater being in contact with the film, each of the plurality of heat conduction members having a higher thermal conductivity than that of the substrate, wherein the toner image formed on the recording material is fixed on the recording material by heat of the film, wherein the plurality of heat conduction members are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the heater with a gap to each other, and wherein one of the plurality of heat conduction members is configured to make contact with the heater continuously from a center of a heat generation region of the heater to an end of the heat generation region of the heater in the longitudinal direction of the heater, the center of the heat generation region corresponding to a virtual line which divides the heat generation region into two regions having the same length in the longitudinal direction of the heater.