Patent ID: 7406288

Claim:
An image heating device comprising: a first belt which heats an image on a recording material at a nip; a second belt which forms the nip with said first belt; a first pressure pad, slidable to said first belt, which presses said first belt toward said second belt at the nip; and a second pressure pad, slidable to said second belt, which presses said second belt at the nip so that said first belt and said second belt are sandwiched by said first pressure pad and said second pressure pad; and, a pressure roller, disposed at a downstream side of said second pressure pad in a recording material conveying direction, which presses said second belt at the nip so that said first belt and said second belt are sandwiched by said first pressure pad and said pressure roller; wherein a pressure in the nip is highest at a exit region, of the nip, where said first belt and said second belt are pressed by said first pressure pad and pressure roller.