Patent ID: 8824911

Claim:
A fixing device comprising: a fixing member including a heat generating layer that generates heat by induction, the fixing member fixing images onto a plurality of recording media that are successively supplied thereto with heat generated from the heat generating layer; a pressure member that contacts the fixing member and forms a nip between the pressure member and the fixing member, the nip allowing the recording media to pass therethrough; an induction heating unit that inductively heats the heat generating layer of the fixing member; and a controller that controls a manner in which the induction heating unit heats the heat generating layer when the plurality of recording media successively pass through the nip in accordance with a total of times during which the recording media are not present in the nip, the total of times being measured from when the recording media started passing through the nip, wherein the controller controls heating based on a duration of time hich the recording media do not pass through the nip.