Patent ID: 8554099

Claim:
An image heating apparatus for heating an image on a recording material, said apparatus comprising: an image heating device configured to heat an image on the recording material; a pressing device configured to press against said image heating device to form a nip for nipping and feeding the recording material; a first temperature detector configured to detect the temperature of said image heating device; an electric power supply controller configured to control electric power supply to said image heating device in accordance with an output of the first temperature detector so that the temperature of said image heating device is a target temperature; a second temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of said pressing device; a first cooling device configured to cool a surface of said image heating device; a second cooling device configured to cool a surface of said pressing device; a contact-spacing device configured to establish a contact state in which said image heating device and said pressing device contact each other and a spaced state in which said image heating device and said pressing device are spaced from each other; an executing portion configured to execute a first cooling mode operation in which at least one of said cooling devices is operated while rotating said image heating device and said pressing device in the contact state and a second cooling mode operation in which said first cooling device and said second cooling device are operated while rotating said image heating device and said pressing device in the spaced state; and a selector configured to select from cooling modes including the first cooling mode and the second cooling mode on the basis of an output of said second temperature detector.