Patent ID: 6567639
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A fixing device comprising:first heating means that is of an endless belt shape for heating a record medium having a developed image; pressurizing means that is of a roller shape for pinching and conveying the record medium together with the first heating means to fix the developed image; second heating means that is of a roller shape and contacts the first heating means for heating the first heating means at a specified temperature; and third heating means that is arranged in the second heating means and is displaced from the rotational center of the second heating means to the first heating means side for heating the second heating means, the third heating means being positioned displaced toward the radius direction from the rotational center of the second heating means, at the upstream side of the transfer direction of the first heating means from the central position of the contact area of the first heating means and the second heating means.