Patent ID: 9696668
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G03G

Claim:
1. A fixing device comprising: a flexible endless fixing member; a heater to heat the fixing member; a nip forming member to contact the fixing member; and a pressure member, disposed opposite the nip forming member via the fixing member, to press against the fixing member to form a fixing nip portion together with the nip forming member and rotationally drive the fixing member, wherein the fixing device applies heat and pressure to fix an image transferred to a recording sheet when the recording sheet passes through the fixing nip portion, and a guide member, disposed downstream of the fixing nip portion in a feeding direction of the recording sheet on the same side as the pressure member relative to a feeding path of the recording sheet, to guide the recording sheet to bend in a direction opposite a direction of a back curl of the recording sheet generated in the fixing nip portion, a feeding path regulator disposed immediately upstream of the guide member in the feeding direction, the feeding path regulator including a drive roller, the guide member having an axis of rotation common to an axis of rotation of the drive roller.