Patent ID: 7268326

Claim:
An image heating apparatus comprising: a coil for generating magnetic flux; a rotatable heat generation member having a heat generation portion, which generates heat by magnetic flux, for heating an image on a recording material; a first temperature detection member for detecting a temperature of said heat generation member; energization control means for controlling energization to said coil on the basis of an output of said first temperature detection member; magnetic flux reducing means comprising a first magnetic flux reducing portion for principally reducing magnetic flux from said coil toward said heat generation member at a central portion of said heat generation member including a portion at which the temperature is detected by said first temperature detection member in a rotational axis direction of said heat generation member, and a second magnetic flux reducing portion for principally reducing magnetic flux from said coil toward said heat generation member at an end portion of said heat generation member in the rotational axis direction; and moving means for moving said magnetic flux reducing means.