Patent ID: 8041277

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a photosensitive body; a transferring device configured to transfer a toner image developed on the photosensitive body onto an image recording member; a fixing device including a heating roller and a pressing roller, the fixing device configured to fix the toner image transferred on the image recording member onto the image recording member by heating and pressing; and a fixing device introduction guide member configured to guide the image recording member to a nip section between the heating roller and the pressing roller of the fixing device, wherein the fixing device introduction guide member is disposed close to the upstream side of the heating roller and the pressing roller and on the pressing roller side, a downstream end of a guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member in a feeding direction of the image recording member is disposed on the heating roller side with respect to a nip surface orthogonal to a straight line between the center of the heating roller and the center of the pressing roller, the nip surface including the nip section between the heating roller and the pressing roller, so that a downstream end of the image recording member guided by the fixing device introduction guide member first contacts the heating roller, the downstream end of the guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member is curved so that a center portion of the downstream end of the guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member is disposed on the upstream side with respect to both lateral ends of the downstream end of the guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member, and the downstream end of the guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member is a single continuous curve between the both lateral ends of the downstream end of the guiding surface of the fixing device introduction guide member.