Patent ID: 8406667
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing device comprising: a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording medium, the fixing member being rotatably arranged so as to be opposed to a surface, on which the toner image has been formed, of the recording medium; a pressing member that presses the recording medium against the fixing member from a back surface side of the recording medium; an oiling unit that applies release oil onto a surface of the fixing member to clean the surface of the fixing member; an oil supplying unit that supplies the release oil to the oiling unit; a removing member that is arranged between a downstream side of the oiling unit and an upstream side of the pressing member in a rotating direction of the fixing member and that is movable between an in-contact state where the removing member is in contact with the surface of the fixing member and an out-of-contact state where the removing member is out of contact with the surface of the fixing member; a drive unit that drives the removing member; and an oiling control unit that, when starting fixing onto the recording medium, controls the drive unit such that the removing member gradually moves from the in-contact state to the out-of-contact state, wherein: the drive unit drives the removing member by controlling pressure from the removing member on the fixing member, and the oiling control unit controls the drive unit such that