Patent ID: 8792814

Claim:
A releasing device, comprising: a releasing unit made of a resin and disposed on a downstream side in a conveying direction of a recording medium from a fixing portion of a fixing unit which fixes a toner image on the recording medium, the releasing unit configured to release the recording medium from the fixing unit after the toner image is fixed on the recording medium; a supporting unit including a screw hole and a supporting face configured to support the releasing unit from below so as to maintain the releasing unit and the fixing unit in a non-contact state; and a screw screwed in the screw hole of the supporting unit in a direction along the supporting face of the supporting unit so as to secure the releasing unit to the supporting unit, wherein the supporting face includes a protruding portion on which the releasing unit is mounted from above, and the protruding portion is disposed at a position below the screw and shifted from the screw in a tightening direction of the screw, wherein the tightening direction is a direction in which the screw is rotated so as to be screwed in the screw hole.