Patent ID: 7962084

Claim:
A fixing device comprising: a heating roll that includes an outer peripheral surface having an elastic layer formed thereon and is heated by a heating unit and is rotated; an endless belt to be rotated in contact with an outer peripheral surface part in a rotating axis direction of the heating roll; and a pressurizing member that forms a pressure contact portion for pushing the endless belt against the outer peripheral surface part of the heating roll from an inner peripheral surface side of the pressurizing member so that a recording medium holding an unfixed image passes between the pressure contact portion and the heating roll, wherein the pressurizing member includes: a hard pressurizing member disposed in a position on a downstream side in a passing direction of the recording medium in the pressure contact portion and having a higher hardness than that of the elastic layer of the heating roll; and a soft pressurizing member disposed in a position on an upstream side in the passing direction from the hard pressurizing member and having a lower hardness than that of the elastic layer of the heating roll to carry out an elastic deformation, and the hard pressurizing member and the soft pressurizing member are disposed in a state in which a clearance is present between the hard pressurizing member and the soft pressurizing member in a specific region part so that at least a specific recording medium passes in a fixing region of the pressure contact portion in the rotating axis direction of the heating roll.