Patent ID: 8971777
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing device comprising: a cylinder member that has a shape of a cylinder and is elastically deformed in a radial direction of the cylinder, and that rotates in a circumferential direction of the cylinder; a circulating member that has a shape of a cylinder, and that circularly moves in a circumferential direction of the cylinder with an outer circumferential surface thereof pressed against the cylinder member; a heat source that heats a recording medium, the recording medium which holds an unfixed toner image on a surface thereof and which is nipped between the cylinder member and the circulating member; and a pressing member that is provided inside the circulating member, and that presses the circulating member against the cylinder member from inside the circulating member, the pressing member including wherein the thrusting portion contacts with the circulating member, and wherein the circulating member forms a circumferential surface of the pressing member and an exterior surface of the circumferential surface of the circulating member is not in contact with the cylinder member at a position directly outside of a region in which all portions of the thrusting portion contacts with an inner surface of the circulating member.