PRESSURE MEMBER, IMAGE HEATING DEVICE USING THE SAME, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PRESSURE MEMBER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve both prevention of paper jam and suppression of damage to the edge of paper due to separation failure, even when an elongated pressure member (pressure pad) 27 for an image heating device is brought close to a separation roller 26 up to a point where an icicle-like glossiness unevenness does not occur, the pressure member being stationary disposed and having an elastic layer 27b that forms, with a heating member 20, a nip N for holding and conveying a recording material P carrying an image T and heating the recording material P.SOLUTION: An elastic layer 27b has anisotropy in terms of an elasticity modulus in which the elasticity modulus in a short direction is larger than the elasticity modulus in a thickness direction.