Patent ID: 8032068

Claim:
A fixing device comprising: a heating section; and a press section which presses the heating section and thereby forms a fixing nip section, wherein at least one of the heating section and the press section comprises, an endless fixing belt; a press member which presses the fixing belt from an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt to the fixing nip; and a sliding sheet covering the press member, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt slides on the sliding sheet and an edge part in a width direction of the sliding sheet locates out side of an edge part of the fixing belt in the width direction; a plurality of projections are provided at a first area which is inside of an edge part of the press member in the width direction of a surface of the sliding sheet; and a plurality of projections which are lower than the plurality of the projections provided at the first area are provided at a second area which is near the edge part of the fixing belt of the surface of the sliding sheet, or no projections are provided at the second area.