Patent ID: 7505724

Claim:
An image heating device comprising: a heating rotator configured to heat an image on a recording material at a nip portion; an endless belt configured to form the nip portion with the heating rotator; a pressure pad configured to press an inner surface of the endless belt to urge the endless belt toward the heating rotator at the nip portion; a rocking member configured to contact with the inner surface of the endless belt so as to rock the endless belt in a widthwise direction of the endless belt; a supplying unit configured to supply a lubricant onto the inner surface of the endless belt at a position downstream of the rocking member and upstream of the pressure pad in a rotating direction of the endless belt; and a collection unit configured to collect the lubricant from the inner surface of the endless belt at a position downstream of the pressure pad and upstream of the rocking member in the rotating direction of the belt, wherein the collection unit re-supplies the lubricant collected by the collection unit to the supplying unit.