Patent ID: 8897688
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A fixing device comprising: an interior rotary body rotatable in a given direction of rotation; a heater disposed opposite and heating the interior rotary body; a nip formation pad contacting a part of an outer circumferential surface of the interior rotary body sliding thereover; a flexible fixing belt looped over the interior rotary body and the nip formation pad; a pressing rotary body pressed against the nip formation pad via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the pressing rotary body and the fixing belt; and a lubricant applicator mounted on the nip formation pad to apply a lubricant to the outer circumferential surface of the interior rotary body, wherein the pressing rotary body, the fixing belt, the nip formation pad, and the interior rotary body are aligned in this order in a pressurization direction in which the pressing rotary body exerts pressure to the interior rotary body via the fixing belt and the nip formation pad to form the fixing nip.