Patent ID: 8891989
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming station configured to form a toner image on a recording material; an image heating portion including a flexible heating rotatable member and a pressing rotatable member press-contacted to said heating rotatable member to form a nip, said image heating portion being effective to heat the recording material while feeding the recording material, by the nip; a pressing state switching portion configured to switch a state of said nip between a pressing state and a released state; and recording material feeding position detector configured to detect misalignment of the recording material relative to a feeding reference position with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording material in said image forming apparatus, wherein when said recording material feeding position detector detects the misalignment, said pressing state switching portion permits said nip to feed at least one recording material in a state of the misalignment, and then said pressing state switching portion switches the nip to the released state and then switches to the pressing state.