Patent ID: 9703239
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G03G

Claim:
1. A fixing device comprising: a heater; a heating rotary member that has an outer circumferential surface and that is rotated while being heated by the heater; a pressure rotary member that is in pressure contact with part of the outer circumferential surface of the heating rotary member extending in an axial direction so as to be rotated and so as to form a pressure contact portion which allows a recording medium having a leading end and lateral end portions and bearing an unfixed image having been transferred thereto to pass therethrough; and a guide member that has a guide portion which guides the leading end of the recording medium toward part of the outer circumferential surface of the heating rotary member approaching the pressure contact portion and which has a guide ending portion where the guiding performed by the guide portion ends and where a central portion and left and right end portions other than the central portion of the guide ending portion in a direction parallel to a rotational axis direction of the heating rotary member are provided, wherein, in the guide member, the central portion has a recessed shape recessed relative to the left and right end portions that guide the lateral end portions of the recording medium while the recording medium is being transported.