Patent ID: 9164435
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing device comprising: an endless belt rotatable in a given direction of rotation; a heater disposed opposite and heating the endless belt; a nip formation pad disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt; and a pressing rotary body pressed against the nip formation pad via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressing rotary body, the fixing nip through which a recording medium is conveyed, the pressing rotary body having a diameter increasing from a center to each lateral end in an axial direction thereof, the nip formation pad including a projection disposed downstream from a rotation axis of the pressing rotary body in a recording medium conveyance direction, the projection projecting at most one side toward the pressing rotary body in an amount increasing from each lateral end to a center in a longitudinal direction of the nip formation pad parallel to the axial direction of the pressing rotary body.