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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Imazu, Ebina, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a belt member, a fixing member facing an outer peripheral surface of the belt member and forming a fixing nip portion between the belt member, and a separating pad portion disposed inside the belt member, including a pressing surface for pressing the fixing member at downstream of the fixing nip portion in a moving direction of the belt member and separating a recording material from the fixing member. The pressing surface of the separating pad portion curves so as to protrude toward the fixing member as approaching a central portion thereof in a rotation axis direction of the fixing member. An upstream end portion and a downstream end portion of the pressing surface curve so as to protrude toward an upstream side in the moving direction as they approach the central portion in the rotation axis direction.