Patent ID: 8270888

Claim:
An image heating apparatus comprising: a rotatable image heating member including an electroconductive layer; a pressing member, press-contacting said image heating member, configured to form a nip in which an image on a recording material is to be heated; an urging member, provided inside said image heating member, configured to urge said image heating member toward said pressing member; and an excitation coil configured to cause induction-heating of the electroconductive layer, wherein when a length of said image heating member with respect to a rotational axis direction of said image heating member is Lb, a length of said pressing member with respect to the rotational axis direction is Lr, an outside distance of bent portions of said excitation coil at both end portions of said excitation coil with respect to the rotational axis direction is LcoilA, and an inside distance of the bent portions with respect to the rotational axis direction is LcoilB, the lengths Lb and Lr and the distances LcoilA and LcoilB satisfy the following relationship: LcoilA>Lb>Lr>LcoilB.