Patent ID: 7986909
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing device comprising: an endless belt member and a rotating body that are arranged to come in pressure contact with each other, at least one of the endless belt member and the rotating body having a source of heat generation; a pressing member that is arranged within the endless belt member and comes in pressure contact with the endless belt member to the rotating body; and a lubricant reservoir that is provided in the pressing member and reserves a semisolid or solid state lubricant so as to be supplied to a pressing portion of the pressing member coming in pressure contact with the rotating body through the endless belt member, wherein a width in a central portion of the lubricant reservoir is wider than that in both ends of the lubricant reservoir, and widths along a length direction of the lubricant reservoir narrows from the central portion toward the both ends.